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On the run : fugitive life in an American city

Title
  1. On the run : fugitive life in an American city / Alice Goffman.
Published by
  1. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2014]
Author
  1. Goffman, Alice

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Description
  1. xiv, 277 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. 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.
Series statement
  1. Fieldwork encounters and discoveries
Uniform title
  1. Fieldwork encounters and discoveries.
Subject
  1. Racial profiling in law enforcement > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
  2. Discrimination in criminal justice administration > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
  3. Criminal justice, Administration of > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
  4. African American youth > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Social conditions
  5. African American youth > Legal status, laws, etc > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
  6. Imprisonment > Social aspects > United States
Contents
  1. 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.
Call number
  1. Sc E 14-1107
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-277).
Author
  1. Goffman, Alice, author.
Title
  1. On the run : fugitive life in an American city / Alice Goffman.
Publisher
  1. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2014]
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Series
  1. Fieldwork encounters and discoveries
  2. Fieldwork encounters and discoveries.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-277).
LCCN
  1. 2013033873
ISBN
  1. 022613671X (hardcover : alkaline paper)
  2. 9780226136714 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
  3. 9780226136851 (e-book)
Research call number
  1. Sc E 14-1107
  2. JFE 16-1338
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