Dr Samantha Jeffries from Griffith Criminology Institute.
Getting their families out of poverty is the most common reason why women risk trafficking drugs across Thailand’s borders a new Griffith University study has found.
The study, published in
Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, interviewed 34 women and men to compare their lived experiences before being imprisoned in Thailand for international cross-border drug trafficking (ICBDT).
Three pathways to prison emerged for both groups: the ‘deviant’ lifestyle, financial hardship and the need to provide for their families, and inexperience and deception. The fourth pathway, romantic susceptibility, only affected women in the study.
Lead researcher Dr Samantha Jeffries from Griffith Criminology Institute said they found noticeable gender-based differences on the different pathways to prison for ICBDT between men and women.
It was dark when the plane touched down in Hong Kong from Phnom Penh. Noor Yuni swiftly cleared immigration and collected her luggage. But as she approached the "nothing to declare" lane, a customs officer pulled her aside, she says.
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