Wheeling and Dealing : : An Ethnography of an Upper-Level Drug Dealing and Smuggling Community / / Patricia A. Adler.

Presents an ethnography of an upper-level drug dealing and smuggling community which describes the drug subcultures from the easy money, the hopes, the consumption, the big deals, dreams, and nightmares.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (220 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface to the Second Edition
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Researching Dealers and Smugglers
  • 2. Smuggling
  • 3. Upper-Level Dealing
  • 4. Social Organization
  • 5. The Dealing Lifestyle
  • 6. Success and Failure
  • 7. Dealing Careers
  • 8. Toward an Existential Perspective on Drug Trafficking
  • 9. Deviant Careers and Reintegration
  • 10. Law Enforcement, Drug Trafficking, and Drug Policy
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index