Understanding Drug Selling In Communities
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Understanding Drug Selling In Communities
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Author : Tiggy May
language : en
Publisher: Policy Press
Release Date : 2005-01-01
Understanding Drug Selling In Communities written by Tiggy May and has been published by Policy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-01 with Community life categories.
How do local drug markets impact on their 'host' communities? This report, based on the largest British study of drug-dealing to date, draws on work in three areas where drug dealing is prevalent, and assesses the the financial, social, environmental and cultural impact of local drug markets on the communities in which they operate. It documents the views of community members about the market and its impact, whilst exploring the career paths and motivations that lead people into drug dealing, together with the social and demographic differences between dealers, users and others in the community. The authors consider the extent to which drug dealers are predatory outsiders who 'prey on' the local community, suggesting that local drug markets are often integrated - to greater or lesser extent - in the licit and illicit economies of deprived areas. Understanding drug selling in communities highlights the complex nature of drug dealing and its effect on local communities. It outlines a range of possible enforcement measures and will be of interest to a range of practitioners concerned with communities, drug prevention and rehabilitation as well as local authorities, the police and probation service.
Understanding Drug Dealing And Illicit Drug Markets
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Author : Tammy C. Ayres
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-07-31
Understanding Drug Dealing And Illicit Drug Markets written by Tammy C. Ayres and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-31 with Social Science categories.
This book examines the drug dealer in contemporary society from an interdisciplinary perspective and considers the increasingly blurred demarcation between illegitimate and legitimate drug markets. It explores the motives and drivers of those involved in drug supply and dispels common and stereotypical myths and misconceptions surrounding illegal drug markets and those who operate within them. The drug dealer has become one of our foremost contemporary ‘folk devils’. Those who trade in substances prohibited by law are the subject of array of inaccurate myths and urban legends. Criminology has tended either to shoehorn drug dealers into neat typologies or portray them as ‘victims’ of an uncaring, predatory post-modern society. In reality, we know relatively little about the complex and diverse world of drug markets and our concentration inevitably falls on low-end ‘retail’ dealers who operate in the most visible sectors of the illegal economy. Bringing together an international group of experts, this book considers perspectives from around the world, including UK, USA, South America, Spain, India and Australia. This book will be of interest to students and researchers across criminology, law, sociology, criminal justice and public health, and will be essential reading for those taking courses on drugs, drug markets and substance misuse.
Pusher Myths
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Author : Ross Coomber
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Pusher Myths written by Ross Coomber and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Psychology categories.
Drug dealers are commonly presented as 'dealing in death', preying on the young and innocent and spreading addiction with little care or regard for those they entangle. Drug markets are commonly depicted as being hierarchically organized and riddled with unscrupulous practices and chaotic violence. While a strong case has been made in recent years that the powers of particular drugs have often led to an unreasonable demonization of drug users, there has been little by way of understanding drug dealers as part of that same process. Who is a drug dealer? How does the dealer operate in the drug market? What if many common perceptions, both about dealers themselves and drug markets more generally, are either incorrect or unreasonably distorted? Reviewing recent research into the minutiae of drug dealing and drug market operations, Pusher Myths suggests that these overly simplistic characterizations of who the drug dealer is, what drug dealers do, and the context within which they operate serve to perpetuate unhelpful ideas of what the drug problem is and, thus ultimately, how it should be resolved. Focusing on issues such as dangerous drug adulteration, the pushing of street drugs onto the young and innocent, the provision of free drugs to hook new clients, and the legend of the Blue Star LSD Tattoo, this book goes in the direction of recasting our understanding of the drug dealer as one that has been unreasonably demonized and de-humanized. This book also provides a contemporary analysis of how the various myths (untruths) surrounding drug dealers may be understood within the broader conceptual analysis of the place of myth in modern society.
Outside In
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Author : Sarah Rivera
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Outside In written by Sarah Rivera and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Drug dealers categories.
This paper examines the non-economic capital of drug dealers. The focus is the social relationships, status and capital of those who have sold drugs through social networks while pursuing higher education and or working legitimately. Specifically, social networks and bonds, such as ties to the formal and informal economy and the community are explored both as they relate to the individual's position as a dealer and his pro-social attachments. Qualitative interviews were conducted with drug dealers in the Northeast United States selected through a snowball sampling strategy. Findings suggest that respondents had strong pro-social attachments, sold drugs not for monetary profit, but rather to underwrite or eliminate personal expenses, attempted to negotiate boundaries between the social and economic aspects of dealing -- either selling exclusively to friends or working to keep friends and customers separate, and did not identify with the term "dealer," even though they sold drugs.
Drug Dealing As Livelihood Practice
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Author : Vanessa Massaro
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Drug Dealing As Livelihood Practice written by Vanessa Massaro and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
Through feminist attention to the everyday, inner-workings of the drug economy, this research explores the contested spaces of the neighborhood block as both stages for the enactment of the 'war on drugs,' and intimate, formative spaces for black men as they rely on the drug economy and navigate aggressive policing and incarceration. There is a plethora of research focusing on violence and the inner city. There is also an abundance of research that investigates the role of drugs and drug dealing in the United States. However, there is little work explicitly engaging the lived experiences of practitioners and their economic agency -- particularly the experiences of black men. The dissertation addresses this gap through a community study of Grays Ferry, Philadelphia that begins from the neighborhood block and moves out to investigate the role of the drug trade in producing complex social networks of support, reciprocity, power and violence. This study integrates the well-developed theoretical and methodological lens of feminist geography with the tradition of developing a place-based understanding of life and crime in US inner-cities. The study attends to the ways in which those who sell drugs remain loyal to the practice and the community their economy creates in the face of 'war on drugs' policies that result in incarceration, harassment, and stigmatization. This project approaches the drug economy, like any economy, as a system of social relations that binds people together. Understanding this system of social relations offers insights into the inner-workings of African American, urban communities and economies in post-industrial US cities.
Dealing
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Author : Barbara Denton
language : en
Publisher: UNSW Press
Release Date : 2001
Dealing written by Barbara Denton and has been published by UNSW Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Crime categories.
Why do women become drug dealers? Are they simply attempting to finance their own addictions or are the reasons more complex? This unique book reveals a surprisingly complex set of stories about a diverse group of women who were attracted to the drug economy. Dealing focuses on 16 women who the author met at the former women's prison, Fairlea, in inner suburban Melbourne. Denton traces the lives of the women as they leave the prison, rejoin the drug economy, and sometimes return to jail. - This is a detailed account of why women enter the industry and how they run their drug businesses and manage complex relations with customers, workers and the criminal justice system. Dealing is a compelling account of an important part of Australia's illicit economy, vividly written and revealing.
Drugs In Society
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Author : Michael D. Lyman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2010-11-22
Drugs In Society written by Michael D. Lyman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-22 with Political Science categories.
This work focuses on the many critical areas of America?s drug problem, providing a foundation for rational decision making within this complex and multidisciplinary field. Broken into three sections: Understanding the Problem, Gangs and Drugs, and Fighting Back, topics covered include the business of drugs and the role of organized crime in the drug trade, drug legalization and decriminalization, legal and law enforcement strategies, an analysis of the socialization process of drug use and abuse, and a historical discussion of drug abuse that puts the contemporary drug problem into perspective. Thoughtful analysis of the diverse perspectives on dealing with the impact of drug use and drug trafficking on American society A close look at the growing influence of Mexican cartels on the drug-trafficking landscape and the impact of their activity in and around the U.S. border Text is supplemented with photos, charts, critical thinking tasks, learning objectives, key terms, and discussion questions Appendices cover drug scheduling and federal trafficking penalties
Illegal Drug Markets
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Author : Mangai Natarajan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000-01-01
Illegal Drug Markets written by Mangai Natarajan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-01 with Social Science categories.
Fourteen papers analyse the operation of illegal drug markets and explore the implications for prevention policy. Topics include: crack distribution and abuse in New York; how young Britons obtain their drugs; the impact of heroin prescription in Switzerland; women as consumer of drug markets; toward a typology of illegal drug markets; heroin use and dealing in an English Asian community; Swedish drug markets and drug policy; Albanians and illicit drugs in Italy; a geographic analysis of illegal drug markets; drug trafficking as a cottage industry; understanding the structure of a drug trafficking organisation; performance management indicators and drug enforcement; and connecting drug policy and research on drug markets.
Code Of The Suburb
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Author : Scott Jacques
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2015-05-08
Code Of The Suburb written by Scott Jacques and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-08 with Social Science categories.
This ethnography of teenage suburban drug dealers “provides a fascinating and powerful counterpoint to the devastation of the drug war” (Alice Goffman, author of On the Run). When we think about young people dealing drugs, we tend to picture it happening in disadvantaged, crime-ridden, urban neighborhoods. But drugs are used everywhere. And teenage users in the suburbs tend to buy drugs from their peers, dealers who have their own culture and code, distinct from their urban counterparts. In Code of the Suburb, Scott Jacques and Richard Wright offer a fascinating ethnography of the culture of suburban drug dealers. Drawing on fieldwork among teens in a wealthy suburb of Atlanta, they carefully parse the complicated code that governs relationships among buyers, sellers, police, and other suburbanites. That code differs from the one followed by urban drug dealers in one crucial respect: whereas urban drug dealers see violent vengeance as crucial to status and security, the opposite is true for their suburban counterparts. As Jacques and Wright show, suburban drug dealers accord status to deliberate avoidance of conflict, which helps keep their drug markets more peaceful—and, consequently, less likely to be noticed by law enforcement.
Understanding Drug Use And Abuse
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Author : Benjamin P. Bowser
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-05-30
Understanding Drug Use And Abuse written by Benjamin P. Bowser and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-30 with Social Science categories.
Addressing drug use and abuse as a global phenomenon, this text draws on contemporary and international research findings to examine the causes of drug use in different countries and to explore different policy responses to its prevention and treatment. It is an invaluable resource for students, practitioners and anyone concerned with drug use.