Description: Further DetailsTitle: On the RunCondition: NewEAN: 9780226136714ISBN: 9780226136714Publisher: University of Chicago PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 05/01/2014Author: Alice GoffmanLanguage: EnglishDescription: Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Arrest quotas and high-tech surveillance techniques criminalize entire blocks, and transform the very associations that should stabilize young lives-family, relationships, jobs - into liabilities, as the police use such relationships to track down suspects, demand information, and threaten consequences. Alice Goffman spent six years living in one such neighborhood in Philadelphia, and her close observations and often harrowing stories reveal the pernicious effects of this pervasive policing. Goffman introduces us to an unforgettable cast of young African American men who are caught up in this web of warrants and surveillance - some of them small-time drug dealers, others just ordinary guys dealing with limited choices. All find the web of presumed criminality, built as it is on the very associations and friendships that make up a life, nearly impossible to escape.We watch as the pleasures of summer - evening stoop-sitting are shattered by the arrival of a car full of cops looking to serve a warrant; we watch - and can't help but be shocked - as teenagers teach their younger siblings and cousins how to run from the police (and, crucially, to keep away from friends and family so they can stay hidden); and we see, over and over, the relentless toll that the presumption of criminality takes on families-and futures. While not denying the problems of the drug trade, and the violence that often accompanies it, through her gripping accounts of daily life in the forgotten neighborhoods of America's cities, Goffman makes it impossible for us to ignore the very real human costs of our failed response-the blighting of entire neighborhoods and the needless sacrifice of whole generations.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social SciencesSubtitle: Fugitive Life in an American CityItem Height: 24mmItem Length: 15mmItem Width: 3mmItem Weight: 567gBook Series: Fieldwork Encounters and DiscoveriesRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: On the Run
Title: On the Run
EAN: 9780226136714
ISBN: 9780226136714
Release Date: 05/01/2014
Release Year: 2014
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Subtitle: Fugitive Life in an American City
Series: Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries
Book Title: On the Run : Fugitive Life in an American City
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Item Height: 0.1 in
Topic: Discrimination & Race Relations, General, Law Enforcement, Penology, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Sociology / Urban, Criminology
Publication Year: 2014
Genre: Law, Political Science, Social Science
Item Weight: 19.4 Oz
Item Length: 0.9 in
Author: Alice Goffman
Book Series: Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries Ser.
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Hardcover
