Dealing Crack: The Social World of Streetcorner Selling - Paperbackby Bruce a. Jacobs (Author) During the 1980s, addiction to crack cocaine escalated at an alarming rate. As the demand for crack grew, so did the economic opportunities for entrepreneurial street dealers, who developed criminal underground networks for the supply and retail sale of the high profit substance. While crack cocaine use has since plateaued and is on the decline, hard core dealers persist in selling the increasingly unprofitable drug in a