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Over the years, 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. The author introduces us to a cast of young African American men who are caught up in this web of warrants and surveillance.

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"On the Run tells, in gripping, hard-won detail, what it's like to be trapped on the wrong side of the law with no way out-the situation of so many young black Americans today. A brilliant fieldworker and a smart analyst of what she saw and heard, Goffman has made a lasting contribution to our understanding of the administration of the law, urban life, and race relations, in a book you will never forget reading." (Howard Becker, author of Writing for Social Scientists)"

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 01/05/2014
      ISBN13: 9780226136714, 978-0226136714
      ISBN10: 022613671X
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      Urban communities / city life

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      Book Synopsis
      Over the years, 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. The author introduces us to a cast of young African American men who are caught up in this web of warrants and surveillance.

      Trade Review
      "On the Run tells, in gripping, hard-won detail, what it's like to be trapped on the wrong side of the law with no way out-the situation of so many young black Americans today. A brilliant fieldworker and a smart analyst of what she saw and heard, Goffman has made a lasting contribution to our understanding of the administration of the law, urban life, and race relations, in a book you will never forget reading." (Howard Becker, author of Writing for Social Scientists)"

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