Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Int J Drug Policy. 2019 Jul;69:8-15. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2019.02.003. Epub 2019 Apr 18.
Illegal drug dealers no longer compete for customers only through the quality of their products, but also in convenience and speed of delivery. This article investigates "ring and bring" drug dealing, and argues that a focus on dealers' use of mobile phones is useful for exploring current changes within retail level drug markets.
The article is based on 21 face-to-face in-depth interviews with active drug dealers in Denmark all of whom were involved in the delivery of drugs (mainly cannabis and cocaine) often to buyers' homes.
Contrary to studies emphasising how drug dealers often take up new communication technologies with enthusiasm, the dealers in this study displayed a technological conservatist stance. Moreover, mobile phones have become key to dealers' construction of in-group hierarchies, and have led to retail level drug selling becoming more flexible, individualised and more of a service on par with other services in the consumer society. Finally, the increasing use of mobile phones has also created a situation where portfolios of drug customers, held on cell phone SIM cards, are today traded and sold alongside other commodities in the drug economy.
We show how a social constructivist approach to technology can provide a more detailed and nuanced account of the socio-technical ensemble and the meaning-making processes giving shape to retail level "delivery dealing."
非法毒品经销商不再仅仅通过产品质量来争夺客户，还通过交货的便利性和速度来竞争。本文研究了“兜售并送货上门”的毒品交易，并认为关注毒贩使用手机对于探索零售毒品市场的当前变化是有用的。
本文基于对丹麦 21 名活跃毒贩的 21 次面对面深入访谈，他们都参与了毒品的送货服务（主要是大麻和可卡因），经常送到买家家中。
与强调毒贩如何热衷于采用新通信技术的研究相反，这项研究中的毒贩表现出一种技术保守立场。此外，手机已成为毒贩构建内部等级制度的关键，导致零售毒品销售更加灵活、个性化，成为消费社会中与其他服务相媲美的服务。最后，手机使用量的增加也造成了这样一种局面，即储存在手机 SIM 卡上的毒品客户名单如今与毒品经济中的其他商品一起被交易和出售。
我们展示了一种社会建构主义的技术方法如何提供更详细和细致入微的社会技术组合以及为塑造零售毒品“送货交易”赋予意义的过程的描述。
