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The Logic of Violence: An Ethnography of Dublins Illegal Drug Trade
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Violence is widely associated with illegal drug markets, and is one of the features that can differentiate illegal capitalism from legitimate business. This book explores the perceived causes and functions of violence in an illegal drug market in Dublin City, Ireland.

Understanding why violence occurs amongst participants in illegal drug markets is an ongoing part of the criminological endeavour. Scholars debate the various business and personal factors that contribute towards violent perpetration. Complex aspects of participants lives, such as addictive disorders, socioeconomic status, and socialisation, add further complexity. This book examines violence in an illegal drug market from the perspectives of those who had participated in it, that is, formerly addicted people as well as former profit-oriented drug dealers. The text is the result of the first ethnographic study of an illegal drug market in Dublin.

This book will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as scholars interested in the criminology and psychology of violence. More specifically, the book will be relevant to those interested in the areas of illegal drug markets, gang studies, the intersection of drugs and crime, and desistance from crime.

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The Logic of Violence

Brendan Marsh, PhD, lives and works in Northern Ireland, where he is Marie Curie Research Fellow in the School of Social Sciences, Queens University Belfast. His areas of interest are violence and illegal drug markets, desistance from crime, and processes of religious and political radicalisation that lead to violence.

Routledge Advances in Ethnography

Edited by Dick Hobbs, University of Essex and Les Back, Goldsmiths, University of London

Ethnography is a celebrated, if contested, research methodology that offers unprecedented access to peoples intimate lives, their often hidden social worlds and the meanings they attach to these. The intensity of ethnographic fieldwork often makes considerable personal and emotional demands on the researcher, while the final product is a vivid human document with personal resonance impossible to recreate by the application of any other social science methodology. This series aims to highlight the best, most innovative ethnographic work available from both new and established scholars.

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22 The Logic of Violence

An Ethnography of Dublins Illegal Drug Trade

Brendan Marsh

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2020 Brendan Marsh

The right of Brendan Marsh to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Marsh, Brendan, 1975- author.

Title: The logic of violence : an ethnography of Dublins illegal

drug trade / Brendan Marsh.

Description: 1 Edition. | New York : Routledge, 2019.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019012296| ISBN 9781138388864 (hardback) |

ISBN 9780429424311 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Drug abuse and crimeIrelandDublin. |

Drug trafficIrelandDublin. | ViolenceIrelandDublin. |

ViolencePreventionIrelandDublin. | Qualitative

researchMethodology. | Interviewing.

Classification: LCC HV8079.N3 M37 2019 | DDC 364.1/33650941835dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019012296

ISBN: 978-1-138-38886-4 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-429-42431-1 (ebk)

For my wife, Claudia Vaulont, who passed away on 22 March 2019, aged 41, after a long and exhausting battle with cancer. I love you dearly.

As with many big city media outlets, Dublins tabloids basically owe their very survival to the daily exploitation and magnification of stories of senseless gangland violence on the streets of the capital city. Indeed, such is the level of obsession among the red top newspapers that numerous leading and even marginal figures in the drug trade have become household names among the Irish reading public. Describing this surreal level of almost celebrity treatment, one young prisoner explained:

You know you are up there with the best if [a journalist] calls you a crime boss or gives you a nickname, that makes people more afraid of you. That cant be a bad thing in the business of crime. [The media] makes us out to be like the mafia godfathers most lads love it.

(Berry, 2010)

Of course, it is the job of tabloid reportage to sell newspapers and, for whatever reason genuine fear, moral panic or simple voyeurism senseless violence sells. On the other hand, the job of social science is to make sense out of the senseless, and Brendan Marshs The Logic of Violence may do this better than any previous work when it comes to understanding the role of violence in the drug trade. Marshs analysis is not structuralist in nature, nor does he argue that all of the killing, maiming and torture he encounters serves some clear instrumental purpose. It does not. Yet, the violence makes perfect sense for those engaging in it, and by taking us inside the inner worlds of those inside the drug trade, this meaning-making becomes comprehensible.

I have chosen inner world here deliberately to refer not just to the space between the ears of the contributors to this research. Although we learn a great deal about their subjective understandings and vantage points, we also understand the inner world going on in the streets of Dublin largely unbeknownst to the average visitor. With an insiders eye, Marsh takes us deep inside the game, how it is played, what the rules are, and how to break them. We meet a few of the so-called winners and many clear losers, who have become trapped in a cyclical process from which many cannot break free.

No question, the picture is a bleak one, and the book offers no easy answers or quick fixes. Indeed, societys typical solutions to this mess typically only make matters worse in the long term. Indeed, the situation is not unlike the one described so well in this book whereby the addict uses drugs to escape her troubles only to create more troubles for herself by using drugs, which she seeks to escape by consuming more drugs, and on and on, in a cycle of self-medicated self-defeat. There will be those who half-read or skim-read this book and decide that the answer is a clear crack of the whip by the state more aggressive police targeting, longer prison sentences, and so forth but the long-term solution for violence is almost never more violence.

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