But Tuesday, she posted a statement on her faculty Web page at the University of Wisconsin, where she is an assistant professor, elaborating on what she called the "summary account" of the incident given in her book.
Goffman, 33, declined to be interviewed about Lubet's claims. According to legal experts he consulted, Goffman's actions, as described in the book, "constituted conspiracy to commit murder under Pennsylvania law."ĭavid Rudovsky, a lawyer representing Goffman, said Friday that he was unaware of any legal investigation of the matter, and Goffman's publishers, the University of Chicago Press and Picador, say they stand behind her and her book. No matter that nothing happened, Lubet writes. The man turns out not to be the killer, and no shots are fired, but Goffman describes being deeply shaken by the recognition of what she calls "my desire for vengeance." In Goffman's account, Mike, with a gun tucked into his pants, gets out of the car to approach someone. In that anecdote, Goffman describes driving the car when a young man named Mike went looking for the man who had recently killed their close friend Chuck. Goffman introduces us to an unforgettable cast of young African American men who are caught up in this web of warrants and surveillance-some of them small-time drug dealers, others just ordinary guys dealing with limited choices.Lubet's charge, made in an article in the online book review The New Rambler and reposted in condensed form by The New Republic, concerns an anecdote that appears at the end of a long appendix in which Goffman describes how she spent six years observing and sometimes living among a group of young men in a Philadelphia neighbourhood she calls Sixth Street. Goffman spent six years living in one such neighborhood in Philadelphia, and her close observations and often harrowing stories reveal the pernicious effects of this pervasive policing. Arrest quotas and high-tech surveillance techniques criminalize entire blocks, and transform the very associations that should stabilize young lives-family, relationships, jobs-into liabilities, as the police use such relationships to track down suspects, demand information, and threaten consequences. Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Media Issues, Communication & JournalismĪlice Goffman's on-the-ground account documents the effects of the American criminal justice system in a predominately African-American neighborhood in Philadelphia.Computer Science & Information Technology.
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