We Deliver: The Gentrification of Drug Markets on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Final Report

摘要

This 2-year ethnographic study documents and analyzes changes in the social and technical organization of drug markets on Manhattans Lower East Side from March 1999 to March 2001. Among the major findings to be discussed are (1) the virtual disappearance of street sales, (2) the growth of delivery and delivery services, (3) the growing importance of secondary markets, (4) the increasing class fragmentation of drug markets, and (5) a discussion of dealing as labor, including the different meanings of dealing and motivations to do so that characterize the distributors in the sample. The research also examines the declining incidence and importance of violence and non-drug crime in drug markets and an assessment of the relative impacts on drug markets of law enforcement activities, demographic shifts, and land-use changes.