Out in the Storm Drug-Addicted Women Living as Shoplifters and Sex Workers

Name: Out in the Storm Drug-Addicted Women Living as Shoplifters and Sex Workers
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ISBN: 9781555536961

ISBN-10: 1555536964

ISBN-13: 9781555536961

Edition: 2008

Authors: Gail A. Caputo

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Based on interview material and life histories that create a vivid narrative, this remarkable volume is the culmination of three years of ethnographic research examining thirty-eight women with drug addictions in the Philadelphia area who took up criminal occupations of shoplifting and sex work. It provides in-depth criminological analysis of drug addiction and female criminality in addition to the sociology of crime work and occupations. Because most of the women interviewed are poor African-Americans raised and living in socially and economically disadvantaged neighborhoods, Caputo pays particular attention to gender, class, and other systems of status in the complex interactions between…

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Northeastern University Press
Publication date: 6/30/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

GAIL A. CAPUTO is Assistant Professor of Criminology at Rutgers University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction


Early Life Trauma


Coming of Age


Making Crime Specialization Work in the Urban Drug Culture


Risk Management Strategies for Shoplifters and Sex Workers


Out in the Storm


References


Notes


Index