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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherRienner Publishers, Lynne
ISBN-101588268160
ISBN-139781588268167
eBay Product ID (ePID)112139711
Product Key Features
Publication Year2012
SubjectStudent Life & Student Affairs, General, Criminology
Number of Pages199 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameDorm Room Dealers : Drugs and the Privileges of Race and Class
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaTrue Crime, Social Science, Education
AuthorA. Rafik Mohamed, Erik D. Fritsvold
FormatTrade Paperback
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal363.45084/20973
SynopsisWhy do affluent, upwardly mobile college students - who have everything to lose and little to gain - choose to sell drugs? Why do law enforcement officers largely overlook drug dealing on college campuses? With rich, lively details, A. Rafik Mohamed and Erik Fritsvold deliver unprecedented insight into the world of college drug dealers - and offer an important corrective to the traditional distorted view of the US drug trade as primarily involving poor minorities. Drawing on three years of fieldwork at a predominately white private university, their exceptional ethnography skilfully explores issues of deviance, race, and stratification in the US war on drugs. The book offers novel insight into the world of college drug dealers, exploring issues of deviance, race, and stratification in the US War on Drugs., Why do affluent, upwardly mobile college students choose to sell drugs? Why do law enforcement officers largely overlook drug dealing on college campuses? With rich, lively details, A. Rafik Mohamed and Erik Fritsvold deliver unprecedented insight into the world of college drug dealers, and offer an important corrective to the traditional distorted view of the US drug trade as primarily involving poor minorities.