City Baby and Star - Addiction, Transcendence, and the Tenderloin

Informationen zum Autor By Don Stannard-Friel Klappentext This book is an exploration of the sociological, biological, and psychological forces that create pathways into and out of street deviance. Utilizing in-depth case studies, the book examines the relationship of an individual's learned and inherited human traits and the culture that receives, socializes, and judges him or her. The book centers on the compelling life stories of City Baby and Star, two women who became criminal drug addicts, and the colorful history of San Francisco's Tenderloin District. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceAcknowledgmentsVoices From the Edge: How She "Let" Herself Get Like That; Everybody's Got a StoryThe Edge: Doin' the TL; Why is There a Tenderloin?Voices: City Baby; How She Got Like That; Star; Making Her Dream Come TrueConclusion: Addiction, Transcendence, and YouLiterature CitedAbout the AuthorIndex

Product details

• Authors: Don Stannard-Friel, Stannard-Friel Don
• Publisher: University Press Of America
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.11.2004
• EAN: 9780761830696
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-3069-6
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Voices from the Edge; Voices from the Edge
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Society & social sciences, Society and Social Sciences