Strategies to avoid arrest: crack sellers’ response to intensified policing
Abstract
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.
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Citation
Johnson, B.D. and Natarajan, M. (1995), "Strategies to avoid arrest: crack sellers’ response to intensified policing", American Journal of Police, Vol. 14 No. 3/4, pp. 49-69. https://doi.org/10.1108/07358549510111947
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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