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| Author: | Ruggiero, V. South, N. |
| Title: | The late-modern city as a bazaar: drug markets, illegal enterprise and the "barricades" |
| Journal: | British Journal of Sociology
1997 : MAR, VOL. 48:1, p. 54-70 |
| Index terms: | INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOUR SOCIOLOGY DRUG ABUSE DEVELOPED ECONOMIES PROPERTY CRIME |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Drug use and drug-related crime in the contemporary city, are described in this paper. The city is seen as a market-place, a bazaar, for it's multiplicity, bargaining trade and manoeuvre. Legality and illegality intermingle, and moral boundaries are negotiated. The metaphor of "barricades" is investigated, an important feature of the city in sociological and literary means. The views are discussed in relation to some features of the drugs economy, and the image of drugs economy is demystified, as a unique challenge to urban life: the similarities between illegal economies and characteristics of legal economics are noted. |
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