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On the run : fugitive life in an American city / Alice Goffman

Goffman, Alice, 1982-

Chicago [u.a.] : The Univ. of Chicago Press, 2014

XIV, 277 S. ; 24 cm

Englisch

The 6th Street boys and their legal entanglementsTechniques for evading the authorities -- When the police knock your door in -- Turning legal troubles into personal resources -- The social life of criminalized young people -- The market in protections and privileges -- Clean people -- Conclusion: a fugitive community -- Epilogue: leaving 6th Street.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-277)

Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet (Rechtsgrundlage SSG). UB Tübingen

Erscheint auch als: On the run / Goffman, Alice (Online-Ausgabe)

978-0-226-13671-4 (hardcover : alkaline paper); 0-226-13671-X (hardcover : alkaline paper)

978-0-226-13685-1 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2013033873

OCoLC: 881114917     

OCoLC: 856647705 (aus SWB)     

HR 1706  | PH 8520  | MS 1420  | MS 1235  | MS 6380  | LB 40610  | HD 375  | MG 70968      Ähnliche Literatur

HV9956.P53

364.3/496073074811 ; 364.3496073074811

Basisklassifikation: 71.65 (Kriminalität als soziales Problem) ; 71.62 (Ethnische Beziehungen)

SSG-Nummer(n): 2,1

*Philadelphia, Pa. ; Schwarze ; Jugend ; Unterschicht ; Kriminalität ; Rassendiskriminierung ; Feldforschung      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Criminal justice, Administration of -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia ; African American youth -- Legal status, laws, etc -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia ; African American youth -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Social conditions ; Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia ; Racial profiling in law enforcement -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia ; Imprisonment -- Social aspects -- United States ; Criminal justice, Administration of -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia ; African American youth -- Legal status, laws, etc -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia ; African American youth -- Social conditions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia ; Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia ; Racial profiling in law enforcement -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia ; Imprisonment -- Social aspects -- United States

The 6th Street boys and their legal entanglements -- The art of running -- When the police knock your door in -- Turning legal troubles into personal resources -- The social life of criminalized young people -- The market in protections and privileges -- Clean people -- Conclusion: a fugitive community -- Epilogue: leaving 6th Street -- Appendix. A methodological note

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Forty years in, 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. Arrest quotas and high-tech surveillance techniques criminalize entire blocks, and transform the very associations that should stabilize young lives--family, relationships, jobs--into liabilities, as the police use such relationships to track down suspects, demand information, and threaten consequences. Alice Goffman spent six years living in one such neighborhood in Philadelphia, and her close observations and often harrowing stories reveal the pernicious effects of this pervasive policing. Goffman introduces us to an unforgettable cast of young African American men who are caught up in this web of warrants and surveillance--some of them small-time drug dealers, others just ordinary guys dealing with limited choices. All find the web of presumed criminality, built as it is on the very associations and friendships that make up a life, nearly impossible to escape