NCJ Number
128191
Journal
Journal of Drug Issues Volume: 21 Issue: 1 Dated: (Winter 1991) Pages: 83-103
Date Published
1991
Length
21 pages
Annotation
Data collected during two visits to a Vancouver, British Columbia heroin-using community, one in 1967 and one more than a decade later, are used to analyze the various activities of law violators living in a deviant community and how these behaviors changed over time.
Abstract
The qualitative data are characterized in terms of the author's personal experiences with the community, and several changes are documented. The most notable feature of these changes is that they allowed the facilitation of narcotics law enforcement. The erosion of solidarity noted by the author was the result of an increasing feeling of apathy on the part of community members toward their own fate and that of their friends, and a failure to practice certain strategies designed to minimize the risks of apprehension and arrest. 2 notes and 15 references (Author abstract modified)