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Auteur(s) : Goffman, Alice
Titre(s) : On the run [Texte imprimé] : fugitive life in an American city / Alice Goffman
Publication : Chicago : The University of Chicago press, cop. 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIV-277 p.) ; 24 cm
Collection : Fieldwork encounters and discoveries
Lien à la collection : Fieldwork encounters and discoveries
Comprend : The 6th Street boys and their legal entanglements ; Techniques for evading the authorities
; When the police knock your door in ; Turning legal troubles into personal resources
; The social life of criminalized young people ; The market in protections and privileges
; Clean people ; Conclusion: a fugitive community ; Epilogue: leaving 6th Street.
Note(s) : 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
Sujet(s) : Justice pénale -- Administration -- Philadelphie (Pa., États-Unis)
Discrimination dans l'administration de la justice pénale -- Philadelphie (Pa., États-Unis)
Jeunesse noire américaine -- Philadelphie (Pa., États-Unis)
Profilage ethnique -- Philadelphie (Pa., États-Unis)
Emprisonnement -- Société -- États-Unis
Drogues -- Trafic -- Philadelphie (Pa., États-Unis)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780226136714 (hardcover) (alk. paper). - ISBN 022613671X (hardcover) (alk. paper).
- ISBN 9780226136851 (erroné) (e-book)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43834655s
Notice n° :
FRBNF43834655
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