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Strategizing the Street: How Law Matters in the Lives of Women in the Street-Level Drug Economy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Kay Levine  and
Virginia Mellema
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Review Section Symposium: The Common Place of Law
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , Winter 2001 , pp. 169 - 207
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 2001 

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