The stickup kids : race, drugs, violence, and the American dream /

In the 1980 's, Randall Contreras grew up in the South Bronx. Reduced social services, increased arson and abandonment, and increased cocaine seriously damaged the community. For this fascinating book, he returned to the South Bronx from a sociological point of view and provided an unprecedented insider's view of how the robbery group of the Dominican Republic is active. These men are known as Stickup Kids in the street. And they attack the drug dealer, brutally afflict and save a lot of heroin, cocaine, marijuana and cash. As an observer, Randol Contreras provided a personal and theoretical explanation of the emergence of Stickup Kids and its violent events. He focuses on the lives of neighboring friends, and once their opportunistic crack market opportunities disappear, they turn from cracking dealers into drug dealers. As a result, an amazing, vibrant local ethnographic magazine was born depicting the violence of drug robbery, the long life of drug market, the life course of crime, and the ultimate pain and suffering experienced by casualties during crack era It was. Stickup Kids encourages us to explore the embarrassment of drug trafficking by incorporating history, biography, social structure, and the power of the drug market. It provides an inspiring explanation for violence in the drug market by delicately clarifying the hidden social forces of individuals that cause violence and self-destruction. Part of the memoirs, partial penetration analysis, this book is attractive, personalized, profound and completely absorbed

"The Stickup Kids saw tricks and strategies in all of these standardized conversations and emotions that deprive drug dealers and make them hide money.Tcontreras is a violent professional crime Lifeall, former researcher. "The University of Pennsylvania University Randall Collins # 147; Stickup Kids is a wonderful glorious work, and complex critical theories are fluent through stories about private personal experiences . Weave. Contreras is a true organic intellectual. He is a brand new voice to challenge how elitism works in that field and analyze academic theory. This work is wealthy and sincere, deserving to be a classical ethnographic magazine suffering in the center of the United States. # 14221; # 15121; # 151; Author of Righteous Dopefiend Philippe Bourgois

Stickup Kids encourages us to explore the embarrassment of drug trafficking by incorporating history, biography, social structure, and the power of the drug market. It provides an inspiring explanation for violence in the drug market by delicately clarifying the hidden social forces of individuals that cause violence and self-destruction. Part of the memoirs, part of the invasion analysis, this book is attractive, personal, profound and completely absorbed. "Stickup Kids is an exceptional wonderful piece.The complicated critical theory is smoothly woven through a crazy story about intimate personal experience.Contreras is a true organic intellectual, He is challenging an elitistic fieldwork style to analyze academic theory with a brand new voice.The rich and honesty, this work should be a classical ethnographic magazine in the city center of the United States "Philippe Burgos (Philippe Bourgois), author of 'Respect: Selling Cracks at El Barrio'