On the run : fugitive life in an American city / Alice Goffman

Author:: Goffman, Alice
Published:: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Physical Description:: 1 online resource (xiv, 277 pages)

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Series:

Fieldwork encounters and discoveries

Contents:

The 6th Street boys and their legal entanglements -- Techniques for evading the authorities -- When the police knock your door in -- Turning legal troubles into personal resources -- The social life of criminalized young people -- The market in protections and privileges -- Clean people -- Conclusion: a fugitive community -- Epilogue: leaving 6th Street.

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ISBN:

9780226136851 (electronic bk.)
022613685X (electronic bk.)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

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Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries); 2014

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Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)

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