ABSTRACT
The current status of social science research in France concerning deviant trajectories is likely to be rather disappointing. This chapter focuses on two groups of recent research. One group is unfortunately represented by only one piece of research, by Le Moigne. The other group includes work devoted more specifically to drug addiction and drug dealing, having received a boost from several tenders in the early 1990s. H. Hughes starts from the idea that a career cannot be reduced to a model regulated by a bureaucratic or any other type of organization. Research work on deviant trajectories reflects the difficulty of organizing research in the field and, more broadly, the weaknesses of French criminology. Looking at the ways out of drug addiction is to question the dominant representation that makes downfall and death the fate of drug addicts. The actors possess a freedom of movement and delinquent behaviour that is far from exhausting the full range of possible intervention.
