ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the relationship between immigrant status, social exclusion, and drug dealing, particularly focusing on how author research participants' opportunities in the formal economy were significantly altered by the way institutions and German society operate. It provides the young men with rationalizations for their drug-dealing activities. The chapter discusses the disadvantaged educational and socioeconomic backgrounds and faced a significant amount of social exclusion in the German public education system. It also shares an involvement in drug-dealing activities. Ethnographic studies in this area can help expand the criminological knowledge in the area of immigration and crime beyond the well-known fact that there is a generational pattern for immigrant crime. The first-generation immigrants generally less involved in crime than the respective native population and crime rates increasing with subsequent generations. The prerequisite for successful programs and policies, then, is a nuanced understanding of the target population, for which qualitative studies are essential.
