The Stickup Kids

"Important book ... ... It is not your typical ethnographic magazine ... [This is a story transmitted from behind." - Michael B. Greene PsycCRITIQUES

"Tough, persuasive, introspective ... Dr. Contreras provides readers with more complexity and nuance to understand these experiences." - Robert J. Duran, " High quality Criminal Justice and Criminal Journal "

"This is a sensational, thorough, painful description of extreme violence and a calm and robust social science study that understands the degree of violence in structure, culture, history, and especially contextual context. ... wonderful, first class social science ... profound. "- Mercer L. Sullivan Penal Code and Criminal Justice Book

"Stickup Kids provide unique insights to researchers, criminal justice agents, supporters, policy makers who want to improve the overall well-being of alienated and isolated ethnic groups and minority communities ... valuable Supplement "- - Criminal Justice Education Journal

"Stickup Kids is an anomalous and brilliant critical theory that is smoothly woven through a crazy story about intimate personal experience.Contreras is a true, organic intellectual and Ge. Lanxi He is a totally new voice to challenge elitism in this field and analyze the theory of academia, this work should be a classic ethnographic magazine suffering in the heart of the United States. "- Author of Justice Dopfield Philippe Bourgoiva

"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

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. The result is an amazing, vibrant local ethnographic magazine explaining the ultimate pain and suffer experienced by drug robbery and violence, long-lived drug market, criminal life process, and cracked casualties.

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'