Mike Salines
CRIMINOLOGIST
Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
performance and image enhancing drugs, illicit drug markets, ethnographic methods, drug use
Mike Salinas, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is a criminologist with particular expertise and experience in ethnographic methods, offending careers over the life-course, illegal drug markets, and drug use. His most recent ethnographic project was undertaken in a ‘hardcore’ bodybuilding gym. The study looked at the myriad motives of IPED users, their extensive polysubstance use, as well as the localised IPED market that feed local demand. He is currently studying service provisions for IPED users to help inform better practice.