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  • Robbing Drug Dealers: Violence beyond the Law

    Robbing Drug Dealers by Jacobs, Bruce;

    Violence beyond the Law

    Series: Modern Applications of Social Work Series;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1
    • Publisher Routledge
    • Date of Publication 31 December 2000
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9780202306483
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages178 pages
    • Size 229x152 mm
    • Weight 330 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    This volume fills a research gap of striking proportions by exploring the contingencies that mediate the crimes perpetrated on those who are themselves perpetrators

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    Long description:

    This volume fills a research gap of striking proportions by exploring the contingencies that mediate the crimes perpetrated on those who are themselves perpetrators. The notion that violence is something that happens only to law-abiding citizens is both widely held and inaccurate. The disproportionate share of victims of crime are, in reality, themselves involved in crime. Yet existing scholarship has failed to explore the contingencies that mediate offenses like drug robbery - from the forces that inspire it, to the methods used to select targets, to the means employed to generate compliance, down to the tactics used to thwart retaliatory attempts after the crime has ended.Given that predatory behavior between and among offenders ultimately spreads to society at large (the "contagion effect"), a research gap of striking proportions has emerged. The imprudence of robbing other criminals is widely assumed. Yet criminologists paradoxically observe that a major benefit of robbing fellow criminals is that they cannot report the offense to the authorities. Why, then, should offenders elect to reduce their odds of getting arrested at the cost of enhancing their chances of getting killed?Drawing on candid interviews with the perpetrators, Jacobs attempts to answer such questions and fill this gap in the research agenda of criminology. The result is a narrative that explores the world of street-corner drugs from the vantage point of those who actually commit these high-risk crimes. It also introduces serious ethical issues that criminology and law enforcement tend to gloss over or ignore entirely. This work is innovative and troubling at the same time. It takes a theme that Hollywood films have explored in greater depth than social science, and restores it as a crucial part of the ethnography of crime.

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    Table of Contents:

    1: Researching Drug Robbery; 2: Motivation; 3: Target Selection; 4: Enactment; 5 1: Managing Retaliation; 6: Order Beyond the Law

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