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Title:

WHEELING AND DEALING
AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF AN UPPER-LEVEL DRUG DEALING AND SMUGGLING COMMUNITY

By:

Patricia A. Adler

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0231081324

ISBN 13:

9780231081320

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Publisher:

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

18 March, 1993

Edition:

2nd edition

Pages:

220

Description:

Offering a rare glimpse of an elite Southern Californian community of drug dealers, this volume traces the lives of the author's key informants over a 15-year span as they entered, ascended and then quit the drug world. This revised edition reveals the current fate of several of the informants.

Synopsis:

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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