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Author Goffman, Alice, author.

Title On the run : fugitive life in an American city / Alice Goffman.

Publication Info. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.

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Description xiv, 277 pages ; 23 cm.
Series Fieldwork encounters and discoveries
Fieldwork encounters and discoveries.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-277).
Contents The 6th Street boys and their legal entanglements -- Techniques for evading the authorities -- When the police knock your door in -- Turning legal troubles into personal resources -- The social life of criminalized young people -- The market in protections and privileges -- Clean people -- Conclusion: a fugitive community -- Epilogue: leaving 6th Street.
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.
Subject Criminal justice, Administration of -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American youth -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American youth.
Pennsylvania.
African American youth -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
Racial profiling in law enforcement -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Racial profiling in law enforcement.
Imprisonment -- Social aspects -- United States.
Imprisonment -- Social aspects.
United States.
Imprisonment.
ISBN 9780226136714 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
022613671X (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
9780226136851 (e-book)