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Wheeling and Dealing : An Ethnography of an Upper-Level Drug Dealing and Smuggling Community / Patricia A. Adler.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1993Description: 1 online resource (220 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231946049
  • 9780231899505
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.1/77 19/eng/20230216
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Researching Dealers and Smugglers -- 2. Smuggling -- 3. Upper-Level Dealing -- 4. Social Organization -- 5. The Dealing Lifestyle -- 6. Success and Failure -- 7. Dealing Careers -- 8. Toward an Existential Perspective on Drug Trafficking -- 9. Deviant Careers and Reintegration -- 10. Law Enforcement, Drug Trafficking, and Drug Policy -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: Presents an ethnography of an upper-level drug dealing and smuggling community which describes the drug subcultures from the easy money, the hopes, the consumption, the big deals, dreams, and nightmares.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780231899505

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Researching Dealers and Smugglers -- 2. Smuggling -- 3. Upper-Level Dealing -- 4. Social Organization -- 5. The Dealing Lifestyle -- 6. Success and Failure -- 7. Dealing Careers -- 8. Toward an Existential Perspective on Drug Trafficking -- 9. Deviant Careers and Reintegration -- 10. Law Enforcement, Drug Trafficking, and Drug Policy -- Notes -- References -- Index

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Presents an ethnography of an upper-level drug dealing and smuggling community which describes the drug subcultures from the easy money, the hopes, the consumption, the big deals, dreams, and nightmares.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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