{"id":1530,"date":"2012-07-04T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2012-07-26T15:29:57","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T20:29:57","slug":"the-sociology-of-selling-meth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2012\/07\/04\/the-sociology-of-selling-meth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sociology of Selling Meth"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n<\/a>In May, we cross-posted a special edition of Office Hours<\/a>\u00a0from the all new\u00a0Contexts Podcast<\/a>.\u00a0In this interview<\/a>, Jessica Streeter speaks with\u00a0Henry H. Brownstein\u00a0 \u00a0and\u00a0Timothy M. Mulcahy, \u00a0co-authors of the Winter 2012 Contexts<\/em>\u00a0feature, \u00a0Home Cooking: Marketing Meth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This podcast or feature article (check if your university library has access to Contexts<\/em>)\u00a0would work well on its own in any criminal justice or deviance course. But what really struck me while listening to this podcast is how similar their findings are to the show\u00a0Breaking Bad<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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<\/em>For those not familiar with the show,\u00a0Breaking Bad\u00a0<\/em>tells the story of a square\u00a0high school chemistry teacher who, when diagnosed with lung cancer, \u00a0turns to a life of crime and begins to cook and sell meth to ensure his family’s financial security after he dies.<\/p>\n

The authors of\u00a0Home Cooking: Marketing Meth<\/a>\u00a0set up an\u00a0interesting\u00a0sociological question of why meth markets are so different from other drug markets.\u00a0You could show an episode of the Breaking Bad<\/em> in class and have a discussion about the social worlds of meth users and sellers compared to other drug markets. Or have students watch it at home and do their own analysis for a course paper.<\/p>\n

For a comparison, check out “The wire goes to college<\/a>” from the Summer 2011 issue of Contexts, an exchange between graduate students on the Contexts <\/em>board and four scholars about the HBO crime drama\u00a0The Wire<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>which\u00a0examined Baltimore\u2019s drug trade.<\/p>\n

Also check out\u00a0Maria Kefalas<\/a>‘<\/strong>\u00a0book review of the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0bestseller\u00a0Methland: The\u00a0Death and Life of an American Small Town<\/em>,<\/a> <\/em>entitled\u00a0“from\u00a0the music man<\/em>\u00a0to\u00a0methland<\/em><\/a>.<\/a>“<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In May, we cross-posted a special edition of Office Hours\u00a0from the all new\u00a0Contexts Podcast.\u00a0In this interview, Jessica Streeter speaks with\u00a0Henry H. Brownstein\u00a0 \u00a0and\u00a0Timothy M. Mulcahy, \u00a0co-authors of the Winter 2012 Contexts\u00a0feature, \u00a0Home Cooking: Marketing Meth. This podcast or feature article (check if your university library has access to Contexts)\u00a0would work well on its own in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127403,308],"tags":[124,237,321,12882],"class_list":["post-1530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-resources","category-video","tag-crime","tag-drugs","tag-law","tag-policing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1600,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions\/1600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}