Dorm Room Dealers: Drugs and the Privileges of Race and Class - Hardcover

Mohamed, A. Rafik

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1588266672 ISBN 13: 9781588266675

Publisher: Lynne Rienner, 2009

Synopsis

Why do affluent, upwardly mobile college students - who have everything to lose and little to gain - choose to sell drugs? Why do law enforcement officers largely overlook drug dealing on college campuses? With rich, lively details, A. Rafik Mohamed and Erik Fritsvold deliver unprecedented insight into the world of college drug dealers - and offer an important corrective to the traditional distorted view of the US drug trade as primarily involving poor minorities. Drawing on three years of fieldwork at a predominately white private university, their exceptional ethnography skillfully explores issues of deviance, race, and stratification in the US war on drugs. The book offers novel insight into the world of college drug dealers, exploring issues of deviance, race, and stratification in the US War on Drugs.

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Review:

Outstanding.... The authors uncover a world of drug dealing far removed from violent street-corner slinging and as entwined in the college experience as all-nighters and keg parties. Providing unparalleled insight into the war on drugs and an all-but-ignored deviant world, this book is as entertaining to read as it is educational. - Peter Moskos, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. ""An excellent study that finally puts the race/class-biased War on Drugs into perspective."" - William J. Chambliss, George Washington University. ""Compellingly demonstrates that college drug dealers, who are mostly white and middle-class, are not subject to the same constraints as typical, street-level dealers."" - Heith Copes, University of Alabama at Birmingham.

About the Author:

A. Rafik Mohamed is associated professor of sociology at the University of San Diego. Erik D. Fritsvold is assistant professor of sociology at the University of San Diego

About this edition

• Publisher: Lynne Rienner
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1588266672
• ISBN 13: 9781588266675
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 260