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

by David Crawford

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781498598170
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	06/25/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	178
File size:	916 KB

About the Author

David Crawford is professor at Fairfield University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Cannabis and Coca, Chemistry and Culture

Chapter 2: Cities and Suburbs

Chapter 3: Dealing with Privilege

Chapter 4: Ambivalent Economics

Chapter 5: Gendered Ambivalence: Cocaine, Money, and Manliness

Chapter 6: The Culture of Cultivation

Chapter 7: Ambivalence Renounced: Growing Up and Out of Dealing

Chapter 8: The Rise and Demise of Cocaine Culture