City Baby and Star
Subtitle: Addiction, Transcendence, and the Tenderloin
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: January 28, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780761830696
Subjects: Social Sciences; Social Science; Sociology; Criminology; Social Science / General; Sociology - Urban; California; Case studies; Drug addicts; Prostitutes; San Francisco
Description: "This book is an exploration of the sociological, biological, and psychological forces that create pathways into and out of street deviance. Utilizing in-depth case studies, the book examines the relationship of an individual's learned and inherited human traits and the culture that receives, socializes, and judges him or her. The book centers on the compelling life stories of City Baby and Star, two women who became criminal drug addicts, and the colorful history of San Francisco's Tenderloin District. This work will be of interest to sociologists, psychologists, criminologists, as well as the general reader."--BOOK JACKET.