Skip to content

The Cocaine Kids: The Inside Story Of A Teenage Drug Ring

The Cocaine Kids: The Inside Story Of A Teenage Drug Ring Paperback / softback - 1990

by Terry Williams

  • New
  • Paperback

Sociologist Terry Williams brings us a story straight out of today's headlines--teens becoming big-time drug dealers--and asks us to take another look at who is winning the war on drugs. "A breath-takting ethnographic account of young drug deadlers".--Boston Herald.

Description

Paperback / softback. New. "Since 1982, sociologist Terry Williams has spent days, weeks, and months "hanging out" with a teenage cocaine ring in cocaine bars, after-hours clubs, on street corners, in crack houses and in their h"
New
NZ$44.33
NZ$20.86 Shipping to USA
Standard delivery: 14 to 21 days
More Shipping Options
Ships from The Saint Bookstore (Merseyside, United Kingdom)

About The Saint Bookstore Merseyside, United Kingdom

Biblio member since 2018
Seller rating: This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.

The Saint Bookstore specialises in hard to find titles & also offers delivery worldwide for reasonable rates.

Terms of Sale: Refunds or Returns: A full refund of the price paid will be given if returned within 30 days in undamaged condition. If the product is faulty, we may send a replacement.

Browse books from The Saint Bookstore

Details

  • Title The Cocaine Kids: The Inside Story Of A Teenage Drug Ring
  • Author Terry Williams
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition New
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Da Capo Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1990-01-22
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # B9780201570038
  • ISBN 9780201570038 / 0201570033
  • Weight 0.43 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.48 x 0.39 in (21.34 x 13.92 x 0.99 cm)
  • Reading level 1330
  • Library of Congress subjects Youth - Drug use - New York (State) - New, Drug dealers - New York (State) - New York
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 89006505
  • Dewey Decimal Code 364.1

First line

Max was fourteen and already considered a "comer" in the cocaine business when I met him.

Media reviews

Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 08/10/1990, Page 0

About the author

Sociologist Terry Williams, Ph.D., coauthor of Growing Up Poor, is the joint recipient of a MacArthur foundation grant to study the culture of housing projects. The completion of The Cocaine Kids was accomplished during Williams's appointment at the Conservation of Human Resources at Columbia University.