Code of the suburb : inside the world of young middle-class drug dealers /

Code of the suburb : inside the world of young middle-class drug dealers /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Jacques, Scott (Scott Thomas), author.
Imprint:	Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015. ©2015
Description:	1 online resource (194 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Drug traffic -- Georgia -- Atlanta. Youth -- Drug use -- Georgia -- Atlanta. Suburbs -- Georgia -- Atlanta. Suburbs. Drug traffic. Social conditions. Youth -- Drug use. Atlanta (Ga.) -- Social conditions. Georgia -- Atlanta. Georgia -- Atlanta Suburban Area.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12283137

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Other authors / contributors:	Wright, Richard, 1951- author.
ISBN:	9780226164250 022616425X 9780226164083 022616408X 9780226164113 022616411X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from resource home page (EbscoHost, viewed April 15, 2020).
Summary:	"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"--Publisher's description.
Other form:	Print version: Jacques, Scott (Scott Thomas). Code of the suburb. Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2015 9780226164083

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Summary:	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.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (194 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780226164250 022616425X 9780226164083 022616408X 9780226164113 022616411X