Shadow People
Subtitle: How Meth-driven Crime Is Eating At the Heart of Rural America
Publisher: Manzanita Writers Press; Brand: Coalition for Investigative Journalism
Published: Apr 17, 2012
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780615551913
Description: "Sleepless and paranoid, methamphetamine addicts often see "shadow people" in the darkest hours of the night. Yet it is the addicts themselves that cast a shadow over the most peaceful corners of America, driven in large numbers to commit fraud, identity theft, burglary, domestic violence, elder abuse, child abuse, assault and murder. In 2010, award-winning journalist Scott Thomas Anderson began to explore the link between crime and methamphetamine, spending sixteen months as an embedded reporter with rural county law enforcement agencies and traveling to dozens of small towns battling the epidemic across the United states. The result is Shadow People, an unflinching look at the havoc and heartache meth spawns in the open countryside--a window to how the drug is threatening America's wide-open spaces, fueling crimes against citizens, breaking families apart, devastating innocent children and tearing away at the psyche of each community through which it spreads."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Source title: Shadow People: How Meth-driven Crime Is Eating At the Heart of Rural America