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Thinking Allowed: Drug Mules; 'Dads Only' Parenting Project

15/10/2014

Drug Mules; 'Dads Only' Parenting Project

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Drug Mules; 'Dads Only' Parenting Project

Laurie Taylor looks at women in the international cocaine trade. Also, dads in training.

Laurie Taylor explores the lives and motivations of women in the international cocaine trade. Also, a project that teaches men how to be good fathers.

Drug Mules - Laurie Taylor talks to Jennifer Fleetwood, Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Leicester, about her study of women in the international cocaine trade. Drawing on 'in depth' interviews with female traffickers imprisoned in Ecuador, she uncovered narratives which went beyond the stock dichotomy of helpless 'victims' versus confident 'agents'.

Also, a 'dads only' parenting project. Alan Dolan, Associate Professor in the Warwick Medical School at the University of Warwick, considers how learning to be a good father can clash with ideals of masculinity as well as traditional notions of fathering. 

Producer: Jayne Egerton.

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