Workin' hard for the money : the social and economic lives of women drug sellers / Ira Sommers, Deborah Baskin, and Jeffrey Fagan.
2000
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Workin' hard for the money : the social and economic lives of women drug sellers / Ira Sommers, Deborah Baskin, and Jeffrey Fagan.
Published
Huntington, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, [2000]
Copyright
©2000
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HV5833.N45 S65 2000
ISBN
1560728205
9781560728207
9781560728207
Description
182 pages ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)44026266
Summary
"This book examines women's participation in the cocaine/crack economy of New York City. All the women are or were long-term drug dealers. In order to be included in the authors' study, a person had to have sold drugs for at least two years. Many of the respondents were involved in drug distribution for considerably longer periods. Thus, the voices heard here are of those who had substantial drug selling careers."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [163]-177) and index.
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Table of Contents
Ch. 1
Introduction
1
Ch. 2
Structure, Culture and Opportunity: Explaining the Feminization of Drug Markets
15
Ch. 3
Neighborhood, Family and School
27
Ch. 4
Initiation Into and the Context of Drug Dealing
49
Ch. 5
Legal and Illegal Work: Work, Crime and Drug Dealing
73
Ch. 6
Living the Life
87
Ch. 7
Quitting the Life
109
Ch. 8
Conclusions
127
APP. 1
The Sample
145
APP. 2
The Relationship Between Drug Dealing and Other Money Making Activities
151
References
163
Index
179