{"id":5928,"date":"2014-05-31T12:35:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T18:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5928"},"modified":"2014-05-31T12:35:18","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T18:35:18","slug":"financial-hazards-of-the-fugitive-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5928","title":{"rendered":"Financial Hazards of the Fugitive Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/06\/01\/upshot\/financial-hazards-of-the-fugitive-life.html?smid=tw-share>Tyler Cowen<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You may think of being on the run as a quandary for only a small group of recalcitrant, hardened criminals. But in her study of one Philadelphia neighborhood, Professor Goffman shows that it is a common way of life for many nonviolent Americans. These people often face charges related to possession or sale of small amounts of drugs, or offenses like hiding relatives from the law. Whatever the negative moral implications of such crimes, they don\u2019t merit having one\u2019s life ruined.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;A core point of \u201cOn the Run\u201d is that \u201cyoung men\u2019s compromised legal status transforms the basic institutions of work, friendship and family into a net of entrapment.\u201d For instance, the police round up fugitives by monitoring and contacting their relatives \u2014 and that frays family relations. A young man might avoid showing up at the hospital to witness the birth of his child because he knows he could be caught or turned in. Family gatherings become another hazard, so in-person appearances are often surprise visits. People stuck in this kind of limbo are also reluctant to visit hospitals when they need treatment, and a result, the book says, is a \u201clifestyle of secrecy and evasion,\u201d driven by the unfavorable incentives set in motion by the law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Cowen: You may think of being on the run as a quandary for only a small group of recalcitrant, hardened criminals. But in her study of one Philadelphia neighborhood, Professor Goffman shows that it is a common way of life for many nonviolent Americans. These people often face charges related to possession or sale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5928"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5929,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5928\/revisions\/5929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}