Money from crime : a study of the economics of drug dealing in Washington, D.C. / Peter Reuter, Robert MacCoun, Patrick Murphy ; with Allan Abrahamse, Barbara Simon.

"This is the final report of a study of drug distribution in the District of Columbia. The study was commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation in support of its funding of the Committee on Strategies to Reduce Chronic Poverty. Additional funding came from RAND's Drug Policy Research Centre, which is supported by The Ford and the Weingart Foundations. The study's purpose is to illuminate the role of drug selling in the economic life of persons at risk of long-term poverty. It provides new data on the characteristics of those who are caught selling drugs in the District of Columbia and on the earnings from such selling. The data and analyses should be of interest to those concerned with drug policy and urban poverty."--Page iii.