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Wheeling and Dealing: An Ethnography of an Upper-Level Drug Dealing and Smuggling Community

Wheeling and Dealing: An Ethnography of an Upper-Level Drug Dealing and Smuggling Community

Adler, Patricia a.

Hardcover

AnthropologySouth American HistoryTrue Crime

ISBN10: 0231081324
ISBN13: 9780231081320
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Apr 1 1993
Pages: 220
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Wheeling and Dealing is a vivid account of the world inhabited by wholesale illicit drug traffickers. Based on six years of participant observation, fieldwork, and extensive interviews in an elite Southern California community of dealers, the book gives a rare glimpse into the decadent yet fascinating subculture of drug trafficking and unending partying, mixed with occasional cloak-and-dagger subterfuge.

This second edition brings the story up to date by revealing the fate of several of Adler's key informants. By tracing their lives over a fifteen-year span, Adler offers a unique longitudinal perspective on deviant careers and the reintegration of dealers into conventional society. She also analyzes the unintended consequences of the federal government's war on drugs, tying it to the increasing violence and organizational sophistication of drug traffickers and the rise of international cartels.

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