Code of the Streets Elijah Anderson Andersons Research
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Code of the Streets Elijah Anderson
Anderson’s Research Approach • Ethnography
Competing Values • The Decent Family • The Street Family • Coexist in poor, urban neighborhoods
The Meaning of R-E-S-P-E-C-T • Techniques for gaining respect are learned on the street – Rational choice?
Campaigning for Respect
Anderson’s Big Picture Global Economy, Poverty, Prejudice, Drugs Social isolation/alienation from conventional ways of life, including the criminal justice system Code of the street (norms governing violence)
Inner City Economy and the Drug Trade Low Income Jobs Underground Economy Welfare Payments
Community Tolerance of Drug Trade • • Boys are not bad, they just need money Drug money is a source of family income Residents avoid “seeing” – fear retribution Parents look the other way, not my child Is morality a luxury of the rich?
Drugs and Punishment • Conservative approach • Liberal approach
Crack v. Powder Cocaine (Possession with intent to distribute) • Powder cocaine: 500 grams (street value = $50, 000) = 5 year minimum sentence • Crack cocaine: 5 grams (street value = $500) = 5 year sentence (mandatory for 1 st offense)
Racial Disparity in Cocaine Possession Convictions 1994 Powder Crack % Black 26. 7 84. 5 % White 58. 0 10. 3 % Hispanic 15. 0 5. 2
Implications for Poor Neighborhoods • Poor, urban neighborhoods are the largest contributors to the prison population • Are there downsides to incarceration policies that focus on drug crime?
Downsides
- Elijah anderson code of the street
- I set the table at the andersons house on saturday
- Code commit code build code deploy
- The rights to the streets of memphis answers
- One point perspective
- Ostrich plural
- We still have known thee for a holy man
- Green streets
- What is prufrock's problem
- Sweet streets desserts
- Self-driving coalition for safer streets
- Sweet treats reading pa
- How many road must a man walk down
- Elijah's challenge