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- catalog abstract "A drastic rise in the number of regular crack cocaine users nationwide has lead to a disturbing concomitant phenomenon: the exchange of sexual services for crack or for money to buy the drug. Major American cities have seen increasing numbers of these men and women, commonly referred to within the drug subculture and in rap lyrics as "skeezers" or "crack whores," who dramatize the intersection of the major social issues of the 1990s: drugs, AIDS, gender roles, and the crisis of the inner city. Crack Pipe as Pimp is the result of an 18-month study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse - the first of its kind - during which research teams in Miami, Chicago, Harlem, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Newark, and Philadelphia spent time in crack houses, apartments, and on the street conducting more than 300 detailed interviews with prostitutes, drug dealers, and homeless people about trading sex for crack. Vivid descriptions of different types of the exchange - including infrequent opportunistic sex; compulsive, crack-driven street prostitution; and desperate, often violent, crack house exchanges - graphically illustrate the frenzied daily lives of these crack users. The authors explore how the characteristics of the drug, the psychological and emotional histories of the individuals, and the social-cultural context in which the sex-for-crack phenomenon occurs have all contributed to its rise and growth. Contributing to the book's timeliness in the age of AIDS, Crack Pipe as Pimp explores the very serious threat of the heightened spread of the HIV virus - commonly considered most prevalent among intravenous heroin users - through these encounters. The study reveals that the sex-for-crack exchange is not merely a seamy part of life in the inner city but, rather, a mounting problem with implications for the entire nation. Crack Pipe as Pimp must be read not only by social anthropologists and researchers but by students and professionals in the fields of criminology, drug abuse treatment, health policy, psychology, public policy, sociology, and urban studies - indeed anyone who is concerned about the nation's future.".
- catalog contributor b4050955.
- catalog contributor b4050956.
- catalog coverage "United States Social conditions.".
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description "A drastic rise in the number of regular crack cocaine users nationwide has lead to a disturbing concomitant phenomenon: the exchange of sexual services for crack or for money to buy the drug. Major American cities have seen increasing numbers of these men and women, commonly referred to within the drug subculture and in rap lyrics as "skeezers" or "crack whores," who dramatize the intersection of the major social issues of the 1990s: drugs, AIDS, gender roles, and the crisis of the inner city.".
- catalog description "Contributing to the book's timeliness in the age of AIDS, Crack Pipe as Pimp explores the very serious threat of the heightened spread of the HIV virus - commonly considered most prevalent among intravenous heroin users - through these encounters. The study reveals that the sex-for-crack exchange is not merely a seamy part of life in the inner city but, rather, a mounting problem with implications for the entire nation. Crack Pipe as Pimp must be read not only by social anthropologists and researchers but by students and professionals in the fields of criminology, drug abuse treatment, health policy, psychology, public policy, sociology, and urban studies - indeed anyone who is concerned about the nation's future.".
- catalog description "Crack Pipe as Pimp is the result of an 18-month study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse - the first of its kind - during which research teams in Miami, Chicago, Harlem, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Newark, and Philadelphia spent time in crack houses, apartments, and on the street conducting more than 300 detailed interviews with prostitutes, drug dealers, and homeless people about trading sex for crack. Vivid descriptions of different types of the exchange - including infrequent opportunistic sex; compulsive, crack-driven street prostitution; and desperate, often violent, crack house exchanges - graphically illustrate the frenzied daily lives of these crack users. The authors explore how the characteristics of the drug, the psychological and emotional histories of the individuals, and the social-cultural context in which the sex-for-crack phenomenon occurs have all contributed to its rise and growth.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Sex, drugs, and public policy / Mitchell S. Ratner -- Kingrats, chicken heads, slow necks, freaks, and blood suckers: a glimpse at the Miami sex-for-crack market / James A. Inciardi -- Crack cocaine and the transformation of prostitution in three Chicago neighborhoods / Lawrence J. Ouellet ... [et al.] -- Exorcising sex-for-crack: an ethnographic perspective from Harlem / Philippe Bourgois and Eloise Dunlap -- Street status and the sex-for-crack scene in San Francisco / Harvey W. Feldman ... [et al.] -- "To the curb": sex bartering and drug use among homeless crack users in Los Angeles / Kathleen Boyle and M. Douglas Anglin -- Crack, gangs, sex, and powerlessness: a view from Denver / Stephen Doester and Judith Schwartz -- Pipe dreams: crack and the life in Philadelphia and Newark / John F. French.".
- catalog extent "viii, 248 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Crack pipe as pimp.".
- catalog identifier "0029257255".
- catalog isFormatOf "Crack pipe as pimp.".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Lexington Books ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International,".
- catalog relation "Crack pipe as pimp.".
- catalog spatial "United States Social conditions.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "2009 A-819".
- catalog subject "362.29/8 20".
- catalog subject "Cocaine-Related Disorders ethnology United States.".
- catalog subject "Crack (Drug) United States.".
- catalog subject "Crack Cocaine adverse effects United States.".
- catalog subject "Crime ethnology United States.".
- catalog subject "Drug Users United States.".
- catalog subject "Drug abuse and crime United States.".
- catalog subject "HV5825 .C695 1993".
- catalog subject "Prostitution United States.".
- catalog subject "Prostitution ethnology United States.".
- catalog subject "Social Conditions United States.".
- catalog subject "WM 280 C8835 1993".
- catalog tableOfContents "Sex, drugs, and public policy / Mitchell S. Ratner -- Kingrats, chicken heads, slow necks, freaks, and blood suckers: a glimpse at the Miami sex-for-crack market / James A. Inciardi -- Crack cocaine and the transformation of prostitution in three Chicago neighborhoods / Lawrence J. Ouellet ... [et al.] -- Exorcising sex-for-crack: an ethnographic perspective from Harlem / Philippe Bourgois and Eloise Dunlap -- Street status and the sex-for-crack scene in San Francisco / Harvey W. Feldman ... [et al.] -- "To the curb": sex bartering and drug use among homeless crack users in Los Angeles / Kathleen Boyle and M. Douglas Anglin -- Crack, gangs, sex, and powerlessness: a view from Denver / Stephen Doester and Judith Schwartz -- Pipe dreams: crack and the life in Philadelphia and Newark / John F. French.".
- catalog title "Crack pipe as pimp : an ethnographic investigation of sex-for-crack exchanges / edited by Mitchell S. Ratner.".
- catalog type "text".