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On the Run (Paperback, UK ed.): Alice Goffman

On the Run (Paperback, UK ed.)

Alice Goffman

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Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Alice Goffman spent six years living in one such neighborhood in Philadelphia, and her close observations and often harrowing stories reveal the pernicious effects of this pervasive policing. Goffman introduces us to an unforgettable cast of young African American men who are caught up in this web of warrants and surveillance - some of them small-time drug dealers, others just ordinary guys dealing with limited choices. All find the web of presumed criminality, built as it is on the very associations and friendships that make up a life, nearly impossible to escape. While Goffman does not deny the problems of the drug trade, and the violence that often accompanies it, through her gripping accounts of daily life in the forgotten neighborhoods of America's cities, she makes it impossible for us to ignore the very real human costs of our failed response - the blighting of entire neighborhoods, and the needless sacrifice of whole generations.

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Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: April 2015
Authors: Alice Goffman
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 277
Edition: UK ed.
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-27540-6
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Urban communities
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > Drugs trade / drug trafficking
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Emergency services > Police & security services
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LSN: 0-226-27540-X
Barcode: 9780226275406

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