The Co-Constitution of Heroin Crime Narratives of Smugglers and Dealers Meet the Judicial Practices
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by NORA - Norwegian Open Research Archives The co-constitution of heroin crime Narratives of smugglers and dealers meet the judicial practices Mette Irmgard Snertingdal Dissertation submitted for the degree philosophiae doctor (PhD) at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography Faculty of Social Science University of Oslo February 2010 © Mette Irmgard Snertingdal, 2010 Series of dissertations submitted to the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oslo No. 224 ISSN 1504-3991 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without permission. Cover: Inger Sandved Anfinsen. Printed in Norway: AiT e-dit AS. Produced in co-operation with Unipub, Oslo. The thesis is produced by Unipub merely in connection with the thesis defence. Kindly direct all inquiries regarding the thesis to the copyright holder or the unit which grants the doctorate. To the smugglers and dealers who shared their story Acknowledgments Initiated by the SIRUS researcher, Anne Line Bretteville-Jensen in 2005, this study was part of a larger project about the drug market in Norway. This, and other projects, have generated knowledge about the economical aspects of intravenous drug use, and estimates of the numbers of such drug users in Norway. However, knowledge about the dealers and importers of heroin was relatively slim in Norway. Therefore, SIRUS wanted to conduct a study that could contribute to the understanding of the heroin market`s division of labor, actors, and development. To complete the study, Bretteville-Jensen contacted professor Per Ole Johansen, at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law at the University in Oslo, who recruited me for the job.
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