Jeff Ferrell is Professor of Sociology at Texas Christian University and Visiting Professor of Criminology at the University of Kent. He is the author of Crimes of Style, Tearing Down the Streets, and Empire of Scrounge and the coauthor of Cultural Criminology: An Invitation.

"Managing to drift without stalling or meandering, his study is a rewarding, sensitive and provocative piece of work...a stylish study of the idea and realities of vagrancy."

• AcknowledgmentsPART ONE. ILLICIT MOBILITY1. Drift Dialectics2. Drift Contexts3. Drift PoliticsPART TWO. AMERICAN DRIFT4. Hobo History5. Catching Out6. Freedom in the Form of a BoxcarPART THREE. UNCERTAIN KNOWLEDGE7. Beneath the Slab8. Drift Method9. Ghost Images and Gorgeous MistakesNotesReferencesIndex

Jeff Ferrell is Professor of Sociology at Texas Christian University and Visiting Professor of Criminology at the University of Kent. He is the author of Crimes of Style, Tearing Down the Streets, and Empire of Scrounge and the coauthor of Cultural Criminology: An Invitation.

"Managing to drift without stalling or meandering, his study is a rewarding, sensitive and provocative piece of work...a stylish study of the idea and realities of vagrancy."

• AcknowledgmentsPART ONE. ILLICIT MOBILITY1. Drift Dialectics2. Drift Contexts3. Drift PoliticsPART TWO. AMERICAN DRIFT4. Hobo History5. Catching Out6. Freedom in the Form of a BoxcarPART THREE. UNCERTAIN KNOWLEDGE7. Beneath the Slab8. Drift Method9. Ghost Images and Gorgeous MistakesNotesReferencesIndex

Jeff Ferrell is Professor of Sociology at Texas Christian University and Visiting Professor of Criminology at the University of Kent. He is the author of Crimes of Style, Tearing Down the Streets, and Empire of Scrounge and the coauthor of Cultural Criminology: An Invitation.

"Managing to drift without stalling or meandering, his study is a rewarding, sensitive and provocative piece of work...a stylish study of the idea and realities of vagrancy."

• AcknowledgmentsPART ONE. ILLICIT MOBILITY1. Drift Dialectics2. Drift Contexts3. Drift PoliticsPART TWO. AMERICAN DRIFT4. Hobo History5. Catching Out6. Freedom in the Form of a BoxcarPART THREE. UNCERTAIN KNOWLEDGE7. Beneath the Slab8. Drift Method9. Ghost Images and Gorgeous MistakesNotesReferencesIndex