Trafficking in Bodily Perfection: Examining the Late‐Modern Steroid Marketplace and Its Criminalization

摘要: Illicit steroid and human growth hormone use by professional athletes has received significant media political attention in the last five years. The resulting pressure compelled federal law enforcement to prosecute serious new control initiatives. To date, no academic research inquiring into nature of this illicit industry exists. This study fills void through mixed methods approach—employing both ethnographic field quantitative content analysis. data demonstrate a fascinating late‐modern trafficking scheme where central informant established an apartment‐based manufacturing operation, converting raw chemical compounds ordered off Internet injectable solutions. Content analysis 186 websites that supply anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) demonstrates these grounded findings are indicative much larger phenomenon. Our final examines broader theoretical relevance con...