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

Author/creator Adler, Patricia A. author.
Format Electronic
PublicationNew York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1993]
Copyright Date©1993
Description1 online resource
Supplemental Contentde Gruyter

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
Abstract 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.
LanguageIn English.
Source of descriptionDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Apr 2019).
Issued in other formprint 9780231946049
ISBN9780231899505
ISBN0231899505
Standard identifier# 10.7312/adle94604

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