Dorm Room Dealers: Drugs and the Privileges of Race and Class
A. Rafik Mohamed
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Paperback. Num Pages: 199 pages. BIC Classification: JFFH1; JKVG; JKVQ2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 344.
Why do affluent, upwardly mobile college students - who have everything to lose and little to gain - choose to sell drugs? Why do law enforcement officers largely overlook drug dealing on college campuses? With rich, lively details, A. Rafik Mohamed and Erik Fritsvold deliver unprecedented insight into the world of college drug dealers - and offer an important corrective to the traditional distorted view of the US drug trade as primarily involving poor minorities. Drawing on three years of fieldwork at a predominately white private university, their exceptional ethnography skilfully explores issues of deviance, race, and stratification in the ... Read more
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Publisher
Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
343g
Number of Pages
199
Place of Publication
Boulder, CO, United States
ISBN
9781588268167
SKU
V9781588268167
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