Jeffrey A Fagan

Workin' Hard for the Money: The Social and Economic Lives of Women Drug Sellers

This book examines women's participation in the cocaine/crack economy of New York City. All the women are or were long-term drug dealers, not those who casually dealt drugs. In order to be included in the authors' study, a person had to have sold drugs for at least two years. Many of the respondents...

Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol & Addictive Behavior, Volume 1: A-D (Second Edition)

***This is volume 1 of 4*** Why a second edition of the "Encyclopedia of drugs and alcohol?" And why change the name to the "Encyclopedia of drugs, alcohol, and addictive behavior?" Consider a smattering of statistics: in 1999, 10.3 million people (4.7% of the American population) ages 12 years or o...

Criminology & Public Policy: Volume 2, Number 1 - November 2002

FUNDING COMMUNITY POLICING TO REDUCE CRIME: HAVE COPS GRANTS MADE A DIFFERENCE? Jihong "Solomon" Zhao Matthew C. Scheider Quint Thurman REACTION ESSAYS: THE LIMITS OF SOCIAL SCIENCE IN GUIDING POLICY Mark H. Moore THE PURSUIT OF GRANTS PROVIDES POLICY CHALLENGES FOR POLICE EXECUTIVES .. Timothy N. ...

Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol & Addictive Behavior Volume 3 R-Z

***This is volume 3 of 4*** Why a second edition of the "Encyclopedia of drugs and alcohol?" And why change the name to the "Encyclopedia of drugs, alcohol, and addictive behavior?" Consider a smattering of statistics: in 1999, 10.3 million people (4.7% of the American population) ages 12 years or o...

Dispatches D4: Out of Poverty

For the fourth issue of dispatches, editors Mort Rosenblum and Gary Knight have returned to their reporting roots. Travelling through decaying corners of Ohio with notebook and camera, they meet the newly poor; the jobless and hopeless of formerly thriving Midwest towns where you can now buy a house...

The Changing Borders of Juvenile Justice: Transfer of Adolescents to the Criminal Court (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Mental Health and De)

Since the 1960s, recurring cycles of political activism over youth crime have motivated efforts to remove adolescents from the juvenile court. Periodic surges of crime—youth violence in the 1970s, the spread of gangs in the 1980s, and more recently, epidemic gun violence and drug-related crime—have ...

Daedalus 139:3 (Summer 2010) - On Mass Incarceration

On Mass IncarcerationContents:Introduction: The challenge of mass incarceration in America Glenn C. Loury and Bruce WesternIncarceration & social inequality Bruce Western and Becky PettitPunishment's place: the local concentration of mass incarceration Robert J. Sampson and Charles LoefflerThe par...

Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol & Addictive Behavior: Volume 2: E-Q

***This is volume 2 of 4*** Why a second edition of the "Encyclopedia of drugs and alcohol?" And why change the name to the "Encyclopedia of drugs, alcohol, and addictive behavior?" Consider a smattering of statistics: in 1999, 10.3 million people (4.7% of the American population) ages 12 years or o...

The Changing Borders of Juvenile Justice: Transfer of Adolescents to the Criminal Court

Violence in Families: Assessing Prevention and Treatment Programs