On the Run

Describes how the Philadelphia police's use of arrest warrants, high-tech surveillance, and questioning of family, friends, and employers in the pursuit of suspects has demoralized poor neighborhods in the city and has a negative impact on all of the residents in these areas.

Product details

• Authors: Alice Goffman, Goffman Alice
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.05.2014
• EAN: 9780226136714
• ISBN: 978-0-226-13671-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 240 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries; Fieldwork Encounters and Disco
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Pennsylvania, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, LAW / Drugs & the Law, Drugs trade / drug trafficking, Urban communities, Urban communities / city life