Dope and Trouble: Portraits of Delinquent Youth by Elliott Currie
Dope and Trouble: Portraits of Delinquent Youth

Elliott Currie

Dope and Trouble: Portraits of Delinquent Youth

Elliott Currie

290 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

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Currie interviews 20 youths between the ages of 14 and 17 confined for various reasons in "The Hall", a juvenile detention facility. They include drug dealers, gang fighters, drug users, thieves, and others; they are a mix of whites, blacks and Hi...

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