RT Book
T1 On the run: fugitive life in an American city
T2 Fieldwork encounters and discoveries
A1 Goffman, Alice 1982-
LA English
PP Chicago u.a.
PB The Univ. of Chicago Press
YR 2014
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/766501183
AB 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
AB 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
NO Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-277)
CN HV9956.P53
SN 9780226136714
SN 022613671X
K1 Criminal justice, Administration of : Pennsylvania : Philadelphia
K1 African American youth : Legal status, laws, etc : Pennsylvania : Philadelphia
K1 African American youth : Pennsylvania : Philadelphia : Social conditions
K1 Discrimination in criminal justice administration : Pennsylvania : Philadelphia
K1 Racial profiling in law enforcement : Pennsylvania : Philadelphia
K1 Imprisonment : Social aspects : United States
K1 African American youth : Social conditions : Pennsylvania : Philadelphia
K1 Philadelphia, Pa. : Schwarze : Jugend : Unterschicht : Kriminalität : Rassendiskriminierung : Feldforschung