On the run

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"Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Arrest quotas and high-tech surveillance techniques criminalize entire blocks, and transform the very associations that should stabilize young lives--family, relationships, jobs--into liabilities, as the police use such relationships to track down suspects, demand information, and threaten consequences. Alice Goffman spent six years living in one such neighborhood in Philadelphia, and her close observations and often harrowing stories reveal the pernicious effects of this pervasive policing. Goffman introduces us to an unforgettable cast of young African American men who are caught up in this web of warrants and surveillance--some of them small-time drug dealers, others just ordinary guys dealing with limited choices. All find the web of presumed criminality, built as it is on the very associations and friendships that make up a life, nearly impossible to escape."--Provided by publisher.

subjects: Administration of Criminal justice,  Racial profiling in law enforcement,  Discrimination in criminal justice administration,  Social conditions,  Imprisonment,  African American youth,  Legal status, laws,  Criminal justice, administration of,  Racial profiling in law enforcement, united states,  Philadelphia (pa.), social conditions,  African americans, pennsylvania, philadelphia,  African americans, social conditions,  Brottslighet,  Sociala aspekter,  Fängelsestraff,  Afro-amerikaner,  Criminal justice, administration of--pennsylvania--philadelphia,  African american youth--legal status, laws, etc,  African american youth--legal status, laws, etc--pennsylvania--philadelphia,  African american youth--social conditions,  African american youth--pennsylvania--philadelphia--social conditions,  Discrimination in criminal justice administration--pennsylvania--philadelphia,  Racial profiling in law enforcement--pennsylvania--philadelphia,  Imprisonment--social aspects,  Imprisonment--social aspects--united states,  Ethnography,  Social aspects

Places: Pennsylvania,  United States,  Philadelphia