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GEEKING UP AND THROWING DOWN: HEROIN STREET LIFE IN DETROIT
Author(s) -
MIECZKOWSKI THOMAS
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
criminology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.467
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1745-9125
pISSN - 0011-1384
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-9125.1986.tb01506.x
Subject(s) - heroin , ideology , throwing , bureaucracy , psychology , habit , field (mathematics) , advertising , criminology , sociology , business , social psychology , political science , engineering , law , psychiatry , politics , aeronautics , drug , mathematics , pure mathematics
This paper reports the results of a field study of 15 street‐level heroin dealers in Detroit, Michigan. The techniques used by these heroin dealers are different from those described in most previous literature. The Detroit dealers do not conform to the traditional “hustling” model. They operate within a bureaucracy, do not generally sell heroin to fund their own habit, are relatively young, and largely lack an approval ideology for their activities.