On the run [Texte imprimé] : fugitive life in an American city / Alice Goffman, Monographie imprimée
Language: anglais.Country: EtatsUnis, GrandeBretagne.Publication : Chicago, London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014, cop. 2014Description: 1 vol. (XIV-277 p.) : jaquette ill. en coul. ; 24 cmISBN: 978-0-226-13671-4; 978-0-226-27540-6; 0-226-13671-X; 0-226-27540-X.Series: Fieldwork encounters and discoveriesDewey: 364.3/496073074811, 23Abstract: 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.Bibliography: Bibliogr. p. 263-277. Notes bibliogr..Subject - Topical Name: Fugitifs recherchés par la justice -- États-Unis Philadelphie (Pa.) | Discrimination dans l'administration de la justice -- États-Unis Philadelphie (Pa.) | Jeunesse noire américaine -- États-Unis Philadelphie (Pa.) | Profilage criminel -- États-Unis Philadelphie (Pa.) | Profilage ethnique -- États-Unis Philadelphie (Pa.) | Emprisonnement -- États-Unis Philadelphie (Pa.)Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Bibliogr. p. 263-277. Notes bibliogr.
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