Tapping into The Wire: the real urban crisis
Tapping into 'The Wire' uses the acclaimed television series as a road map for exploring connections between inner-city poverty and drug-related violence."--Page 2 of cover
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- Full title :Tapping into The Wire : the real urban crisis / Peter L. Beilenson and Patrick A. McGuire ; featuring a conversation with David Simon.
Summary
Tapping into 'The Wire' uses the acclaimed television series as a road map for exploring connections between inner-city poverty and drug-related violence."--Page 2 of cover
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- Publication Date:2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Johns Hopkins University Press
- Place of Publication:Baltimore
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (x viii, 214 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781421407616, 1421407612
- oclc:ocn862110708
- LC Classification:RA566.4.M3
- Dewey Decimal:362.1092/27526
Table of Contents
The new public health crisis : Wallace's world -- Heroin central : the street life of Bubbles, Marlo, and Johnny -- Losing the war on drugs : the pit vs. the police -- Medicalize vs. legalize : Hamsterdam -- Needle exchange and the AIDS dilemma : sticking it to "the bug" -- Treatment on demand as a strategy : Walon's success story -- School performance and the MIA parent : the tragedy of Dukie's education -- Teenage pregnancy and STDS : Shardene escapes -- Firepower : Snoop's Beretta, Avon's Heckler, and Omar's Mossberg -- Place matters : why didn't Bodie just leave? -- Of paint and guns : did Omar Little die of lead poisoning? -- Obese yet malnourished : the weighty contradiction of Prop Joe -- Public health and politics : the promise and peril of Tommy Carcetti.
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