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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Goffman, Alice.     Subjects     Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.     Youth, Black -- United States -- Legal status, laws, etc.     Youth, Black -- United States -- Social conditions.     Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States.     Racial profiling in law enforcement -- United States.     Imprisonment -- Social aspects -- United States.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Goffman, Alice.       by title:      On the run : fugitiv...       by call number:      365.973 G612o     Search the Web     Goffman, Alice.     Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.     Youth, Black -- United States -- Legal status, laws, etc.     Youth, Black -- United States -- Social conditions.     Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States.     Racial profiling in law enforcement -- United States.     Imprisonment -- Social aspects -- United States.       MARC Display

On the run : fugitive life in an American city / Alice Goffman. by Goffman, Alice. The University of Chicago Press, 2014. Call #: 365.973 G612o Subjects Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.   Youth, Black -- United States -- Legal status, laws, etc.   Youth, Black -- United States -- Social conditions.   Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States.   Racial profiling in law enforcement -- United States.   Imprisonment -- Social aspects -- United States. Series Fieldwork encounters and discoveries. ISBN:  9780226136714 022613671X Description:  xiv, 277 p. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-277) Summary:  Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Arrest quotas and high-tech surveillance techniques criminalize entire blocks, and transform the very associations that should stabilize young lives--family, relationships, jobs--into liabilities, as the police use such relationships to track down suspects, demand information, and threaten consequences. Alice Goffman spent six years living in one such neighborhood in Philadelphia, and her close observations and often harrowing stories reveal the pernicious effects of this pervasive policing. Goffman introduces us to an unforgettable cast of young African American men who are caught up in this web of warrants and surveillance--some of them small-time drug dealers, others just ordinary guys dealing with limited choices. All find the web of presumed criminality, built as it is on the very associations and friendships that make up a life, nearly impossible to escape. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 365.973 G612o Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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