Cocaine Kids - The Inside Story of a Teenage Drug Ring

Informationen zum Autor Sociologist Terry Williams, Ph.D., coauthor of Growing Up Poor, is the joint recipient of a MacArthur foundation grant to study the culture of housing projects. The completion of The Cocaine Kids was accomplished during Williams's appointment at the Conservation of Human Resources at Columbia University. Klappentext Sociologist Terry Williams brings us a story straight out of today's headlines--teens becoming big-time drug dealers--and asks us to take another look at who is winning the war on drugs. "A breath-takting ethnographic account of young drug deadlers".--Boston Herald. Zusammenfassung "Since 1982, sociologist Terry Williams has spent days, weeks, and months "hanging out" with a teenage cocaine ring in cocaine bars, after-hours clubs, on street corners, in crack houses and in their h" Inhaltsverzeichnis * Introduction * The Setup * The Cocaine Trade * The Kids * The Scene * The Kids Move On

Product details

• Authors: Terence T. Williams, Terry Williams, Terry M. Williams, Terry Tempest Williams
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1990
• EAN: 9780201570038
• ISBN: 978-0-201-57003-8
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Life Stages / Teenagers, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, LAW / Drugs & the Law, Crime and criminology, Drugs and alcohol: social aspects