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Wheeling and Dealing: An Ethnography of an Upper-Level Drug Dealing and Smuggling Community
Patricia A. Adler
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Description for Wheeling and Dealing: An Ethnography of an Upper-Level Drug Dealing and Smuggling Community
Paperback. Offering a rare glimpse of an elite Southern Californian community of drug dealers, this volume traces the lives of the author's key informants over a 15-year span as they entered, ascended and then quit the drug world. This revised edition reveals the current fate of several of the informants. Num Pages: 220 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.
Wheeling and Dealing is a vivid account of the world inhabited by "wholesale" illicit drug traffickers. Based on six years of participant observation, fieldwork, and extensive interviews in an elite Southern California community of dealers, the book gives a rare glimpse into the decadent yet fascinating "subculture of drug trafficking and unending partying, mixed with occasional cloak-and-dagger subterfuge." This second edition brings the story up to date by revealing the fate of several of Adler's key informants. By tracing their lives over a fifteen-year span, Adler offers a unique longitudinal perspective on deviant careers and the reintegration of dealers ... Read more
Wheeling and Dealing is a vivid account of the world inhabited by "wholesale" illicit drug traffickers. Based on six years of participant observation, fieldwork, and extensive interviews in an elite Southern California community of dealers, the book gives a rare glimpse into the decadent yet fascinating "subculture of drug trafficking and unending partying, mixed with occasional cloak-and-dagger subterfuge." This second edition brings the story up to date by revealing the fate of several of Adler's key informants. By tracing their lives over a fifteen-year span, Adler offers a unique longitudinal perspective on deviant careers and the reintegration of dealers ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231081337
SKU
V9780231081337
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About Patricia A. Adler
Patricia A. Adler is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Reviews for Wheeling and Dealing: An Ethnography of an Upper-Level Drug Dealing and Smuggling Community
"A persuasive, credible, and imaginative analysis of a rather unusual and fascinating segment of social life... The very modest tone, scope, and aim of this tightly argued ethnographic work belies its profound and penetrating analysis of the drift of American life."
Peter K. Manning, Contemporary Sociology
Peter K. Manning, Contemporary Sociology