The Policy Studies Directory
Title | The Policy Studies Directory PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 152 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Policy sciences |
ISBN |
The Policy Studies Directory
Title | The Policy Studies Directory PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 156 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Policy sciences |
ISBN |
Policy Studies Personnel Directory
Title | Policy Studies Personnel Directory PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Policy sciences |
ISBN |
Policy Studies Personnel Directory
Title | Policy Studies Personnel Directory PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 212 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Policy sciences |
ISBN |
Policy Studies Journal
Title | Policy Studies Journal PDF eBook |
Author | Policy Studies Organization |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 144 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Transportation and state |
ISBN |
The Political Science Utilization Directory
Title | The Political Science Utilization Directory PDF eBook |
Author | Policy Studies Organization |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 138 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Administrative agencies |
ISBN |
Code of the Suburb
Title | Code of the Suburb PDF eBook |
Author | Scott Jacques |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total 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.