Limit search to available items
759 results found. Sorted by relevance | date | title .
Book Cover
E-book
Author Gundur, Rajeev, author.

Title Trying to make it : the enterprises, gangs, and people of the American drug trade / R. V. Gundur
Published Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022
©2022

Copies

Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Contents Home -- The southern border -- Immigration court -- The Santa Fe Street bridge -- Business as usual -- Father and son -- La Carrucha -- Violence -- The street -- The oasis -- The gangs of the valley -- Adelita and Calista -- A fear of corners -- Connections -- The city by the lake -- Gangland -- The twins -- Logistics -- Conclusion: the business of the American drug trade -- Epilogue: trainspotting
Summary "Trying to Make It is a study of the people, gangs, and illicit enterprises that form the illicit drug trade in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua; Phoenix, Arizona; and Chicago, Illinois."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 02, 2022)
Subject Drug traffic -- Social aspects -- United States
Drug traffic -- Social aspects -- Mexico
Drug dealers -- United States
Drug dealers -- Mexico
Drug control -- Social aspects -- United States
Drug control -- Social aspects -- Mexico
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
Drug control -- Social aspects
Drug dealers
Drug traffic -- Social aspects
United States of America, USA.
Migration, immigration & emigration.
Social services & welfare, criminology.
Drugs trade / drug trafficking.
Organized crime.
True Crime.
Mexico
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021044474
ISBN 9781501764493
1501764497
9781501764486
1501764489