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Dealing with Privilege: Cannabis, Cocaine, and the Economic Foundations of Suburban Drug Culture

Dealing with Privilege: Cannabis, Cocaine, and the Economic Foundations of Suburban Drug Culture
Author: David Crawford
Price: $38.00
ISBN-10: 149859817X
ISBN-13: 9781498598170
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Dealing with Privilege: Cannabis, Cocaine, and the Economic Foundations of Suburban Drug Culture focuses on the careers of nine successfully retired drug dealers, offering a contrast to sociological, criminological, and other depictions of drug dealing as a realm of the desperate, dangerous, and poor. David Crawford tells the great untold story of drug dealing in America, where white, middle-class dealers are unlikely to suffer the enforcement of drug laws. Contrary to media portrayals, Crawford argues that suburban drug sales are not oriented around money making but friendship and fun. Using economic anthropology, classic sociology, and neuroscience to analyze the life trajectories of these dealers, Crawford touches on issues of crime, race, culture, aging, gender, privilege, illegal drugs, and the limits of conventional economics as a framework to understand economic behavior.