Code of the Suburb
Title | Code of the Suburb PDF eBook |
Author | Scott Jacques |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 205 |
Release | 2015-05-08 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 022616425X |
This ethnography of teenage suburban drug dealers “provides a fascinating and powerful counterpoint to the devastation of the drug war” (Alice Goffman, author of On the Run). When we think about young people dealing drugs, we tend to picture it happening in disadvantaged, crime-ridden, urban neighborhoods. But drugs are used everywhere. And teenage users in the suburbs tend to buy drugs from their peers, dealers who have their own culture and code, distinct from their urban counterparts. In Code of the Suburb, Scott Jacques and Richard Wright offer a fascinating ethnography of the culture of suburban drug dealers. Drawing on fieldwork among teens in a wealthy suburb of Atlanta, they carefully parse the complicated code that governs relationships among buyers, sellers, police, and other suburbanites. That code differs from the one followed by urban drug dealers in one crucial respect: whereas urban drug dealers see violent vengeance as crucial to status and security, the opposite is true for their suburban counterparts. As Jacques and Wright show, suburban drug dealers accord status to deliberate avoidance of conflict, which helps keep their drug markets more peaceful—and, consequently, less likely to be noticed by law enforcement.
Drug Abuse in Suburbia
Title | Drug Abuse in Suburbia PDF eBook |
Author | Nassau County (N.Y.). Probation Department |
Publisher | |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Drug abuse |
ISBN |
Drug Abuse in Suburbia
Title | Drug Abuse in Suburbia PDF eBook |
Author | Nassau County (N.Y.). Probation Department |
Publisher | |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Drug abuse |
ISBN |
Suburbia Fray
Title | Suburbia Fray PDF eBook |
Author | Jacqueline Casey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2024-08 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781963296792 |
Drug Abuse in Suburbia
Title | Drug Abuse in Suburbia PDF eBook |
Author | Nassau County (N.Y.). Courts. Probation Department |
Publisher | |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Drug abuse |
ISBN |
Staff Study on Drug Abuse in the Washington Area
Title | Staff Study on Drug Abuse in the Washington Area PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia |
Publisher | |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Drug abuse |
ISBN |
Grass is Green in Suburbia
Title | Grass is Green in Suburbia PDF eBook |
Author | Nechama Tec |
Publisher | |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Drug abuse |
ISBN |