Respectable Deviance and Purchasing Medicine Online by Lisa Sugiura

Author:Lisa Sugiura
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Rosie described how her family and friends were unaware that she used the Web to buy prescription medicine: It never really comes up and I know that they definitely understand the risks about it and everyone has heard the horror stories about horrible things happening to people because they bought it online and so generally try and just keep it to myself really. It’s not one of those things that turns up in conversations [Rosie]

Rosie also noted the media’s role in reporting ‘horror stories’ and portraying purchasing medicine online as a negative thing to do. This supports the notion that this activity has been constructed as deviant , even though it is not necessarily a criminal act. The ‘horror stories’ play into the risk rhetoric in order to dissuade people from engaging in it.

Although Anthony had not told his family, he had told his friends about his use of the dark web to procure illicit substances: At first they didn’t really believe me. Even I had trouble thinking the Silk Road was real when I first got on the site. Some of them think that there’s too much risk , another one said to me that this was really strange for him as he is from “the country”. Another one told me that he would but he can’t as he lives with his parents and he wouldn’t really know how to explain to his parents receiving a shady package from the mail. [Anthony]

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