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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adler, Patricia A., author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1993]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89950-5

OCLC:

1100438100