Main description:

This book examines the drug dealer in contemporary society from an interdisciplinary perspective and considers the increasingly blurred demarcation between illegitimate and legitimate drug markets. It explores the motives and drivers of those involved in drug supply and dispels common and stereotypical myths and misconceptions surrounding illegal drug markets and those who operate within them.

The drug dealer has become one of our foremost contemporary 'folk devils'. Those who trade in substances prohibited by law are the subject of array of inaccurate myths and urban legends. Criminology has tended either to shoehorn drug dealers into neat typologies or portray them as 'victims' of an uncaring, predatory post-modern society. In reality, we know relatively little about the complex and diverse world of drug markets and our concentration inevitably falls on low-end 'retail' dealers who operate in the most visible sectors of the illegal economy. Bringing together an international group of experts, this book considers perspectives from around the world, including UK, USA, South America, Spain, India and Australia.

This book will be of interest to students and researchers across criminology, law, sociology, criminal justice and public health, and will be essential reading for those taking courses on drugs, drug markets and substance misuse.

Contents:

1.The changing shape of illicit drug markets: differentiation and its consequences for understanding and researching illicit drug markets Ross Coomber 2.Drug Dealing with Amphetamines: from over the Counter to Subcultural Thefts, Three Phases of Supply Andrew Wilson and Rob Ralphs 3.Life Stories of Jamaican Men involved in the UK Drugs Trade Angie Heal 4.Entrepreneurs: Just Taking Care of Business, the Drug Business Tammy C. Ayres and James Treadwell 5.Heroin Users Who Deal: Getting High on their Own Supply James Morgan 6.Just 'Sorting' their Mates? The Identities, Roles and Motivations of Social Suppliers Leah Moyle 7.Women's Role in Illegal Drug Production, Selling and Trafficking Jennifer Fleetwood 8.Dealing Dope in the Dorms: College Drug Dealers and Anti-Targets in the U.S. War on Drugs A. Rafik Mohamed and Erik D. Fritsvold 9.'Steroid Holidays' as Drug Tourism and Deviant Leisure Jake Coomber-Moore, Nigel South, Ross Coomber and Leah Moyle 10. 'Easy Money, Zero Risk': The Role of British Seasonal Workers in the Ibiza Drug Market Tim Turner 11.'Doubling Up': Drug Dealing as a Profitable Side-Hustle Mike Salinas 12.County Lines and the Transformation of Middle Drug Markets within a Local Organised Crime Context Paul Andell, David James and Dev Maitra 13.Violence, Grime, Gangs and Drugs on the South Side of Birmingham James Treadwell and Craig Kelly 14.The More Things Change, the More they Stay the Same: A Structuro-Generational Perspective of Gypsy Drug-Dealing Networks and Operations in Madrid, Spain Daniel Briggs 15.The Dark Net, Bitcoins and the Role of the Internet in Drug Supply Angus Bancroft 16.Cryptomarkets and Organised Crime: an Ethnographic Life History Craig Kelly 17.Image and Performance Enhancing Drug (IPED) Suppliers and their Motives: Following the Evidence Katinka van de Ven, Kyle Mulrooney and Honor Townshend 18.Illicit Pharmaceutical Supply: Moving Beyond Common Assumptions About Drugs and Drug Dealing Alexandra Hall and Georgios A. Antonopoulos 19.Drug Markets and Drug Dealing: Time to Move On Tammy C. Ayres and Stuart Taylor 20.Side Affects May Vary: Palliative Capitalism, Punitive Capitalism and US Consumer Culture Travis Linnemann and Corina Medley