Extends the notion of informality into the area of illegality, looking at how illegal crack vendors in New York use informality to reduce and pass risk to others. Focuses on the…
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Extends the notion of informality into the area of illegality, looking at how illegal crack vendors in New York use informality to reduce and pass risk to others. Focuses on the techniques used to avoid detection and arrest and the methods of placing risk of imprisonment on smaller, lower‐income dealers. Suggests that this process of exploitation only makes sense when seen in the broader context of inequality in US society where some have nothing to lose by going to jail.
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John C. Cross and Bruce D. Johnson
Attempts to theorize the relationship between the informal and the illegal sectors of the economy. States that there are significant behavioural similarities. Proposes an emergent…
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Attempts to theorize the relationship between the informal and the illegal sectors of the economy. States that there are significant behavioural similarities. Proposes an emergent paradigm based on dual labour market theory to explain the similarites and differences in order to guide future research in each area. Applies the theory to the production and marketing of crack cocaine and shows how the model helps us to understand issues of exploitation and risk makagement within the drug market.
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Debbie Ollis, Leanne Coll, Lyn Harrison and Bruce Johnson
Debbie Ollis, Leanne Coll, Lyn Harrison and Bruce Johnson
Debbie Ollis, Leanne Coll, Lyn Harrison and Bruce Johnson
Debbie Ollis, Leanne Coll, Lyn Harrison and Bruce Johnson
Bruce D. Johnson and Mangai Natarajan
Interviews over 120 sellers and low‐level distributors of the drug “crack” in New York City. Documents seller strategies to counter police tactics. Finds that crack sellers and…
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Interviews over 120 sellers and low‐level distributors of the drug “crack” in New York City. Documents seller strategies to counter police tactics. Finds that crack sellers and distributors have developed several important strategies to limit vulnerability to arrest, but that success in avoiding arrest diminishes considerably once they are detected by police. Suggests that problem‐oriented approaches are better than crackdowns, since they permanently disrupt the environmental conditions that foster drug market sites.
Debbie Ollis, Leanne Coll, Lyn Harrison and Bruce Johnson
Debbie Ollis, Leanne Coll, Lyn Harrison and Bruce Johnson
Debbie Ollis, Leanne Coll, Lyn Harrison and Bruce Johnson