Crack Dealers and Restrictive Deterrence
Identifying Narcs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9680994 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bruce A Jacobs (University of Missouri–St. Louis, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 409-431 |
| Publication date | 1996-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-1384 • E-ISSN: 1745-9125 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1745-9125.1996.tb01213.x |
| OpenAlex | W2073165455 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 69 |
| References cited | 34 |
Data drawn from semistructured interviews with 40 active street‐level crack dealers are used to illustrate, apply, and expand the concept of restrictive deterrence. The article focuses on the perceptual shorthand dealers use to determine whether buyers in question are “narcs.” In presenting this shorthand, the article seeks to demonstrate how interactions among marketplace democratization (i.e., the idea of selling to as many different customers as possible to maximize profits), marketplace volatility, transactional brevity, and threats from law enforcement affect its complexity and refinement. Respondents operated out of a medium‐sized, midwestern metropolitan area (population: 2.2 million) within a central city of 390,000
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| Unique citing works | 69 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,38 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2025 (29) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 69 |