具体描述
Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Arrest quotas and high-tech surveillance techniques criminalize entire blocks, and transform the very associations that should stabilize young lives—family, relationships, jobs—into liabilities, as the police use such relationships to track down suspects, demand information, and threaten consequences.
Alice Goffman spent six years living in one such neighborhood in Philadelphia, and her close observations and often harrowing stories reveal the pernicious effects of this pervasive policing. Goffman introduces us to an unforgettable cast of young African American men who are caught up in this web of warrants and surveillance—some of them small-time drug dealers, others just ordinary guys dealing with limited choices. All find the web of presumed criminality, built as it is on the very associations and friendships that make up a life, nearly impossible to escape. We watch as the pleasures of summer-evening stoop-sitting are shattered by the arrival of a carful of cops looking to serve a warrant; we watch—and can’t help but be shocked—as teenagers teach their younger siblings and cousins how to run from the police (and, crucially, to keep away from friends and family so they can stay hidden); and we see, over and over, the relentless toll that the presumption of criminality takes on families—and futures.
While not denying the problems of the drug trade, and the violence that often accompanies it, through her gripping accounts of daily life in the forgotten neighborhoods of America's cities, Goffman makes it impossible for us to ignore the very real human costs of our failed response—the blighting of entire neighborhoods, and the needless sacrifice of whole generations.
作者简介
Alice Goffman is an assistant professor of sociology at University of Wisconsin, Madison.
目录信息
Preface
Introduction
1 The 6th Street Boys and Their Legal Entanglements
2 Techniques for Evading the Authorities
3 When the Police Knock Your Door In
4 Turning Legal Troubles into Personal Resources
5 The Social Life of Criminalized Young People
6 The Market in Protections and Privileges
7 Clean People
Conclusion: A Fugitive Community
Epilogue: Leaving 6th Street
Acknowledgments
Appendix: A Methodological Note
Notes
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读后感
既然都很喜欢本书，只好科普一下本书和Alice Goffman在美国被圈内黑爆的事情。 当政治学的quantie Lacour的支持同性恋婚姻研究被揭穿完全造假的同时，也就是15年夏天，AG的On the Run也开始被揭穿。 最开始是有人匿名网传给各社会学者一封巨长的信，人称"massive takedown of...
评分在这本从本科开始就进行田野调查的著作中，戈夫曼之女爱丽斯戈夫曼（小戈）融合民族志方法与老戈部分理论，观察执法机器对族群社群生活与社会纽带的冲击及后者的反应。司法和执法系统变得越来越精密（各种科技进步甚至向斯塔西学习盘查和监控技巧）、繁琐（各个执法机构各自有...
评分在这本从本科开始就进行田野调查的著作中，戈夫曼之女爱丽斯戈夫曼（小戈）融合民族志方法与老戈部分理论，观察执法机器对族群社群生活与社会纽带的冲击及后者的反应。司法和执法系统变得越来越精密（各种科技进步甚至向斯塔西学习盘查和监控技巧）、繁琐（各个执法机构各自有...
评分在这本从本科开始就进行田野调查的著作中，戈夫曼之女爱丽斯戈夫曼（小戈）融合民族志方法与老戈部分理论，观察执法机器对族群社群生活与社会纽带的冲击及后者的反应。司法和执法系统变得越来越精密（各种科技进步甚至向斯塔西学习盘查和监控技巧）、繁琐（各个执法机构各自有...
评分在这本从本科开始就进行田野调查的著作中，戈夫曼之女爱丽斯戈夫曼（小戈）融合民族志方法与老戈部分理论，观察执法机器对族群社群生活与社会纽带的冲击及后者的反应。司法和执法系统变得越来越精密（各种科技进步甚至向斯塔西学习盘查和监控技巧）、繁琐（各个执法机构各自有...
用户评价
因为美国社会学界和新闻界对这本书的热议而读的
评分RDX推荐：作者用六年研究了费城底层非裔在和法律冲撞中的生活。比如说一名非裔自从高中打斗被捕以后，一直被社会拒绝，然后就在不断无休止的挣扎、无法谋生，被警擦和法律费用骚扰等等中愈陷愈深。作为一本专业学术书籍，这本书在亚马逊社会学排行榜上排到16名。
评分随着执法力量深入黑人社区，经济处于弱势的黑人群体无法摆脱监狱-违法的循环。于是，违法活动以及与司法系统打交道成为了黑人社区社会生活的中心。人们的身体惯习、交往形态、社会声誉和对未来的展望都适应了“在逃的”生活，如果一个人试图在这个社区中保持洁身自好，她/他们甚至会悖谬地远离社会生活。缺点在于没有系统地用任何一种理论进行组织，因此很多地方讲得不够清楚，很容易被其他学者批评。比如马派可能会疑惑，如果“在逃”是一种交往形态的话，那么支撑这个社区中的生产和经济形态又是什么？
评分6年的田野调查，值得国内学者参考。做研究真心不容易。
评分传说中的社会学人类学圈内丑闻？读起来更像是crime fiction挺刺激的。Goffman被教授和同学在课上八卦了半天，感觉是一个挺传奇的人物
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