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When we think about young people dealing drugs, we tend to picture it happening on urban streets, in disadvantaged, crime - ridden neighborhoods. The authors offer an ethnography of the culture of suburban drug dealers. It will be of interest to scholars and policy makers alike.

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"Code of the Suburb takes us into the world of young white suburban drug dealing and in doing so, provides a fascinating and powerful counterpoint to the devastation of the drug war in poor, minority communities. To readers familiar with that context, the absence of police and prisons-indeed, of virtually any negative consequences for selling and using drugs-is quite striking." (Alice Goffman, author of On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City)

Code of the Suburb Inside the World of Young

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    Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
    Publication Date: 5/8/2015 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780226164083, 978-0226164083
    ISBN10: 022616408X
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    Age groups: adolescents Social classes

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    When we think about young people dealing drugs, we tend to picture it happening on urban streets, in disadvantaged, crime - ridden neighborhoods. The authors offer an ethnography of the culture of suburban drug dealers. It will be of interest to scholars and policy makers alike.

    Trade Review
    "Code of the Suburb takes us into the world of young white suburban drug dealing and in doing so, provides a fascinating and powerful counterpoint to the devastation of the drug war in poor, minority communities. To readers familiar with that context, the absence of police and prisons-indeed, of virtually any negative consequences for selling and using drugs-is quite striking." (Alice Goffman, author of On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City)

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