Contesting County Lines: Case Studies in Drug Crime and Deviant Entrepreneurship

by Carlton Brick, Robert McLean, James A. Densley

Combining a compulsive read with rigorous academic analysis, this book tells the real-life stories of drug dealers involved in county lines networks, including their methods, motives and misfortunes. Conventional wisdom surrounding county lines often portrays drugs runners as exploited victims and gang proliferation as a market-driven exercise, and suggests a business model facilitated exclusively by smart phone technology and routinely regulated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1529232066
• ISBN13: 9781529232066
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"