Editor's Introduction: Professor Strobl worked as a federal presentence officer, a type of probation officer. She discusses the challenges of sanctioning drug couriers, often called “drug mules” because they are used to transport illegal drugs on their person, often across borders. Many couriers in Strobl's caseload were impoverished women from different countries who in many ways were victims, while the law tended to treat them simply as offenders. Placing corrections in a global context, she identifies the part that political-economic globalization and inequality plays in making low-income [Page 28]women more vulnerable to ...