Criminal Family Networks: Criminal Capital and Cost Avoidance among Urban Drug Sellers

This study explores: (1) how criminal family networks facilitate cost avoidance strategies by urban drug sellers and (2) transmission of criminal capital by these networks. Twenty interviews with drug sellers in Philadelphia found that family networks provided unique access to cost avoidance techniq...

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Published in:Deviant behavior 2016-11, Vol.37 (11), p.1325-1340
Main Author: Fader, Jamie J.
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Avoidance behavior
Criminology
Cultural capital
Drug trafficking
Families & family life
Kinship networks
Mentoring
Merchants
Offenders
Organizational structure
Organized crime
Urban areas
Urban crime
Victimization
Victims
Violent crime
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Criminology
Cultural capital
Drug trafficking
Families & family life
Kinship networks
Mentoring
Merchants
Offenders
Organizational structure
Organized crime
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Urban crime
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