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Review of Huan Gao, Women and Heroin Addiction in China’s Changing Society

Review of Huan Gao, Women and Heroin Addiction in China’s Changing Society Asian Criminology (2014) 9:77–78 DOI 10.1007/s11417-012-9149-8 BOOK REVIEW Review of Huan Gao, Women and Heroin Addiction in China’s Changing Society New York: Routledge, ISBN: 978-0-415-89318-3 Mengyan Dai Received: 1 July 2012 /Accepted: 15 July 2012 /Published online: 1 August 2012 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012 “Women and Heroin Addiction in China’s Changing Society” by Huan Gao is the first academic book in recent years to specifically study female users of heroin in China. In this cutting-edge project, Professor Gao depicts in detail the problem of heroin use by women in the twenty-first century as China grows into a superpower in the global economy. Fast- changing Chinese society during the recent economic reform has provided a unique social context for sociologists and criminologists to study various social problems including drug problems. In this context, Professor Gao has selected a very important and unique social issue to study and has published this timely research. By using snowball sampling and theoretical sampling strategies, the author interviewed women heroin users (N0131) in 2005 in Kunming, the capital city of Yunnan Province, which has the largest heroin user population in the country. During a follow-up study conducted in 2008, women heroin users (N025) who http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Journal of Criminology Springer Journals

Review of Huan Gao, Women and Heroin Addiction in China’s Changing Society

Dai, Mengyan
Asian Journal of Criminology , Volume 9 (1) – Aug 1, 2012
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Social Sciences, general; Criminology & Criminal Justice; Social Sciences, general; Political Science, general; Law, general
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Asian Criminology (2014) 9:77–78 DOI 10.1007/s11417-012-9149-8 BOOK REVIEW Review of Huan Gao, Women and Heroin Addiction in China’s Changing Society New York: Routledge, ISBN: 978-0-415-89318-3 Mengyan Dai Received: 1 July 2012 /Accepted: 15 July 2012 /Published online: 1 August 2012 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012 “Women and Heroin Addiction in China’s Changing Society” by Huan Gao is the first academic book in recent years to specifically study female users of heroin in China. In this cutting-edge project, Professor Gao depicts in detail the problem of heroin use by women in the twenty-first century as China grows into a superpower in the global economy. Fast- changing Chinese society during the recent economic reform has provided a unique social context for sociologists and criminologists to study various social problems including drug problems. In this context, Professor Gao has selected a very important and unique social issue to study and has published this timely research. By using snowball sampling and theoretical sampling strategies, the author interviewed women heroin users (N0131) in 2005 in Kunming, the capital city of Yunnan Province, which has the largest heroin user population in the country. During a follow-up study conducted in 2008, women heroin users (N025) who

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