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Paperback. Condition: New. Why do the vast majority of heroin users live in cities? In his provocative history of heroin in the United States, Eric C. Schneider explains what is distinctively urban about this undisputed king of underworld drugs. During the twentieth century, New York City was the nation's heroin capital-over half of all known addicts lived there, and underworld bosses like Vito Genovese, Nicky Barnes, and Frank Lucas used their international networks to import and distribute the drug to cities throughout the country, generating vast sums of capital in return. Schneider uncovers how New York, as the principal distribution hub, organized the global trade in heroin and sustained the subcultures that supported its use. Through interviews with former junkies and clinic workers and in-depth archival research, Schneider also chronicles the dramatically shifting demographic profile of heroin users. Originally popular among working-class whites in the 1920s, heroin became associated with jazz musicians and Beat writers in the 1940s. Musician Red Rodney called heroin the trademark of the bebop generation. "It was the thing that gave us membership in a unique club," he proclaimed. Smack takes readers through the typical haunts of heroin users-52nd Street jazz clubs, Times Square cafeterias, Chicago's South Side street corners-to explain how young people were initiated into the drug culture. Smack recounts the explosion of heroin use among middle-class young people in the 1960s and 1970s. It became the drug of choice among a wide swath of youth, from hippies in Haight-Ashbury and soldiers in Vietnam to punks on the Lower East Side. Panics over the drug led to the passage of increasingly severe legislation that entrapped heroin users in the criminal justice system without addressing the issues that led to its use in the first place. The book ends with a meditation on the evolution of the war on drugs and addresses why efforts to solve the drug problem must go beyond eliminating supply.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. B00K: Fine/, $68.73 0812241169 SMACK; HEROIN and the AMERICAN CITY; POLITICS and CULTURE in MODERN AMERICA * SCHNEIDER, Eric C. UNIVERSITY of PENNSYLVANIA PRESS 2008 1sT Edition, 1sT Printing D/J + H/C. Glossy Black Top End With Multi Colored Pictorial Bottom Spine And Title In Red Letters, Dust Jacket: Fine/, Shelf, Edge Stretching And Slight Corner Wear. Hard Cover B0K: Fine/, Slight Shelf, Edge And Corner Wear. 259 Numbered Pages Printed On Off White Paper, In Fine/As New/ Condition, That Appear To Be Lightly Viewed, Clean And Tight To The Spine, Shelf, Edge And Corner Wear. No Tears. No Odors. No Writing. No Names. Description Applies To This BooK, Only. A Acquired From The Estate Of John Treavor & Mary Treavor. Description Applies To This Book, Only. This BooK Is Hard To Find, Will Be Packaged And Shipped Carefully, To Avoid Shipping Damage And Will Make It, An Excellent Addition To Your Own Personal Library Collection, Or As A Gift. WORLD WIDE SHIPPING, AVAILABLE. 2008 B00K: Fine/, (illustrator).…

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Paperback. Condition: New. "An analytic overview of the history of social welfare and juvenile justice in Boston.[Schneider] traces cogently the origins, development, and ultimate failure of Protestant and Catholic reformers' efforts to ameliorate working-class poverty and juvenile delinquency." Choice"Anyone who wants to understand why America's approach to juvenile justice doesn't work should read In the Web of Class." Michael B. Katz,University of Pennsylvania. …

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Hardback. Condition: New. Like so many big cities in the United States, Philadelphia has suffered from a strikingly high murder rate over the past fifty years. Such tragic loss of life, as Eric C. Schneider demonstrates, does not occur randomly throughout the city; rather, murders have been racialized and spatialized, concentrated in the low-income African American populations living within particular neighborhoods. In The Ecology of Homicide, Schneider tracks the history of murder in Philadelphia during a critical period from World War II until the early 1980s, focusing on the years leading up to and immediately following the 1966 Miranda Supreme Court decision and the shift to easier gun access and the resulting spike in violence that followed. Examining the transcripts of nearly two hundred murder trials, The Ecology of Homicide presents the voices of victims and perpetrators of crime, as well as the enforcers of the law-using, to an unprecedented degree, the words of the people who were actually involved. In Schneider's hands, their perspectives produce an intimate record of what was happening on the streets of Philadelphia in the decades from 1940 until 1980, describing how race factored into everyday life, how corrosive crime was to the larger community, how the law intersected with every action of everyone involved, and, most critically, how individuals saw themselves and others. Schneider traces the ways in which low-income African American neighborhoods became ever more dangerous for those who lived there as the combined effects of concentrated poverty, economic disinvestment, and misguided policy accumulated to sustain and deepen what he calls an "ecology of violence," bound in place over time. Covering topics including gender, urban redevelopment, community involvement, children, and gangs, as well as the impact of violence perpetrated by and against police, The Ecology of Homicide is a powerful link between urban history and the contemporary city.…

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hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Princeton. 1999. Princeton University Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0691001413. 408 pages. hardcover. keywords: New York Gangs History. DESCRIPTION - They called themselves 'Vampires', 'Dragons', and 'Egyptian Kings'. They were divided by race, ethnicity and neighbourhood boundaries, but united by common styles, slang and codes of honour. They fought - and sometimes killed - to protect and expand their territories. In postwar New York, youth gangs were a colourful and controversial part of the urban landscape, made famous by 'West Side Story' and infamous by the media. This is a historical study which explores the culture of these gangs. Author Eric Schneider takes us into a world of switchblades and slums, zoot suits and bebop music to explain why youth gangs emerged, how they evolved, and why young men found membership and the violence it involved, so attractive. Schneider focuses on the years from 1940 to 1975, but takes us up to the present in his conclusion, showing how youth gangs are no longer social organizations but economic units tied to the underground economy. inventory #26652. …