Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries: On the Run : Fugitive Life in an American City (Paperback)

from froxgirl

This is an astonishing, critical field study into the lives of black men and women and the cycle of perpetual incarceration in a Philadelphia neighborhood (and of course in all of urban America). Every cog in this wheel, from the young men to their mothers to the police to the defenders to the ju...

from sj1335

I found this book to be full of answers to the questions that we have all asked. We have always been given vague answers to, why our black youths, mainly male are filling up the prisons. We finally get the answers to many of our questions answered by Ms. Goffman. This was part of Ms. Goffman's th...

from barlow304

Alice Goffman's Ph.D dissertation has turned into an amazing book on the effect of mass incarceration and excessive policing on one poor, black Philadelphia neighborhood. The young men she follows for 6 years of fieldwork struggle to support themselves, to attend court dates, to pay court fees, a...

from Twink

Alice Goffman undertook a massive project for her academic dissertation in sociology - an ethnographic study documenting the lives of a group of people living in a predominately black, crime ridden neighborhood in Philadelphia. She ended up doing more than documenting - she lived in and around th...

from froxgirl

This is an astonishing, critical field study into the lives of black men and women and the cycle of perpetual incarceration in a Philadelphia neighborhood (and of course in all of urban America). Every cog in this wheel, from the young men to their mothers to the police to the defenders to the ju...