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addiction
adolescents
arrest
atlanta
Author_Richard Wright
Author_Scott Jacques
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conflict avoidance
crime
criminal justice
criminology
customers
dealers
delinquency
differential association
drift
drug dealing
drugs
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ethnography
gender
georgia
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illegal activity
law enforcement
middle class
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peers
police
race
security
selling
social control
sociology
status
suburban
suburbia
suburbs
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victimization
violence
youth
Product details
- ISBN 9780226164113
- Weight: 312g
- Dimensions: 17 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 08 May 2015
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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When we think about young people dealing drugs, we tend to picture it happening on urban streets, in disadvantaged, crime-ridden neighborhoods. But drugs are used everywhere - even in upscale suburbs and top-tier high schools - 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.
Offering new insight into both the little-studied area of suburban drug dealing, and, by extension, the more familiar urban variety, Code of the Suburb will be of interest to scholars and policy makers alike.
Scott Jacques is assistant professor of criminal justice and criminology in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. Richard Wright is professor in and chair of the Department of Criminal Justice at Georgia State University and the author of five books.
