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Drug Selling: A Rational Choice
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Title
Drug Selling: A Rational Choice
Subject
Drugs, North End, Crime, Gangs
Description
Research based on years of data collection and analysis in Champaign-Urbana. From chapter: "In this chapter, the facts and conditions in the optimistic scene we
have just painted change. Instead of a bright employment future and its
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lifelong benefits, what would your course of life be if you were born into a
community- socially and economically isolated from the community that
has all of the good jobs? Adding to community isolation, let us propose
you were in your early twenties and had a poor education (less than high
school) or a low level of education (high school) and no opportunities to
gain employment training or a job within your own community. If you
could secure a job in the main community, it would be a low-paying,
dead-end j ob with no benefits. Further, let us propose that you commonly
use drugs like marijuana, belong to a youth gang, and have been arrested
many times. Enhancing that dismal scene, your parents have drug and
alcohol dependency and/or addiction, poor levels of education, poor
to mediocre employment histories, are most likely unemployed at any
time in the year, have convictions on a range of felonies, and have served
prison terms. Still further,· let us propose that all your friends were like
you: poor and badly educated with families like yours, which means you
can get no help from them in finding a job.
In this chapter, we will discuss how young women the age of college
. coeds cope with virtually insurmountable social and economic barriers
in a poor community that has been socially and economically isolated
for more than eighty years. We will show that selling illegal drugs to
earn a living is a rational choice in such an isolated community. Finally,
we will discuss solutions to these types of social problems so prevalent
in modem America."
have just painted change. Instead of a bright employment future and its
DRUG SELLING: A RATIONAL CHOICE 193
lifelong benefits, what would your course of life be if you were born into a
community- socially and economically isolated from the community that
has all of the good jobs? Adding to community isolation, let us propose
you were in your early twenties and had a poor education (less than high
school) or a low level of education (high school) and no opportunities to
gain employment training or a job within your own community. If you
could secure a job in the main community, it would be a low-paying,
dead-end j ob with no benefits. Further, let us propose that you commonly
use drugs like marijuana, belong to a youth gang, and have been arrested
many times. Enhancing that dismal scene, your parents have drug and
alcohol dependency and/or addiction, poor levels of education, poor
to mediocre employment histories, are most likely unemployed at any
time in the year, have convictions on a range of felonies, and have served
prison terms. Still further,· let us propose that all your friends were like
you: poor and badly educated with families like yours, which means you
can get no help from them in finding a job.
In this chapter, we will discuss how young women the age of college
. coeds cope with virtually insurmountable social and economic barriers
in a poor community that has been socially and economically isolated
for more than eighty years. We will show that selling illegal drugs to
earn a living is a rational choice in such an isolated community. Finally,
we will discuss solutions to these types of social problems so prevalent
in modem America."
Creator
Mark S. Fleisher and Jessie L. Krienert
Source
Crime and employment: critical issues in crime reduction for corrections; edited by Jessie L. Krienert and Mark S. Fleisher
Publisher
AltaMira Press
Date
2004
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Mark S. Fleisher and Jessie L. Krienert, "Drug Selling: A Rational Choice," in eBlack Champaign-Urbana, Item #624, https://eblackcu.net/portal/items/show/624 (accessed May 1, 2024).
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