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Down, Out, and under Arrest : Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row by Forrest Stuart (2016, Hardcover)
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PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
ISBN-10022637081X
ISBN-139780226370811
eBay Product ID (ePID)16038255490
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Book TitleDown, Out, and under Arrest : Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2016
TopicPoverty & Homelessness, Law Enforcement, Criminology, Sociology / Urban
IllustratorYes
GenrePolitical Science, Social Science
AuthorForrest Stuart
FormatHardcover
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Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight22.1 Oz
Item Length0.9 in
Item Width0.6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2015-046039
Dewey Edition23
Reviews Down, Out, and Under Arrest is a trenchant ethnographic account of how big city police harass and 'manage' some of the most desperate people of the urban environment, but equally important, how these impoverished denizens--including residents of SRO hotels, skid row, and homeless settlements--wisely manage the police in their everyday lives, powerfully revealing the enormous human toll of the 'neoliberal state.' This is a timely work of importance that deserves to be read by a wide audience., Stuart's extraordinary field work in LA's Skid Row sheds new light on the regulation of the urban poor in the twenty-first century. This is urban ethnography at its best., In this fine study, Stuart has put some disturbing flesh on the bones of neoliberalism. His vivid description of the complex worlds of skid row and the widening of coercive social control under the guise of reintegration may remind readers of critiques of social work written in the 1960s and 1970s. This new pathway of disciplinary enterprise, however, is backed up by guns, handcuffs and the threat of incarceration., This book is both a searing indictment of the Los Angeles Safer Cities Initiative and an increased understanding of how collectives can work to resist misguided civic policies., Stuart straddles the gap between academic rigor and reader engagement with this impressive urban ethnography. He not only tells the everyday story of the urban poor of LA's Skid Row, he also tells the ideological story of the men and women who police them. This important book represents a detailed and nuanced account of urban policing in a cultural and political environment where the debate has mostly become stagnant and binary. The author maintains an impressively balanced and objective approach throughout the narrative. In addition to fascinating insights into life on Skid Row, Stuart provides an engaging example of ethnographic research, including an approachable methodological appendix. An excellent addition to library collections on social problems, policing, or research methods. Highly recommended., Stuart's Down, Out, and Under Arrest describes a segment of reality that is virtually unknown to Americans--how policing is reshaping the experiences of extreme urban poverty. The challenges of everyday life in Skid Row are revealed in sharp relief in his compelling narrative. Indeed, Stuart's insightful account, based on years of field research, is replete with original findings. This well written book is a must-read not only for students and scholars of urban poverty, but for the general public as well., Stuart straddles the gap between academic rigor and reader engagement with this impressive urban ethnography. He not only tells the everyday story of the urban poor of LA's Skid Row, he also tells the ideological story of the men and women who police them. This important book represents a detailed and nuanced account of urban policing in a cultural and political environment where the debate has mostly become stagnant and binary. The author maintains an impressively balanced and objective approach throughout the narrative. In addition to fascinating insights into life on Skid Row, Stuart provides an engaging example of ethnographic research, including an approachable methodological appendix. An excellent addition to library collections on social problems, policing, or research methods. Highly recommended., For Stuart, therapeutic policing legitimates punitive treatment of the worst-off without making them or anyone else better off. Or rather, turning the police into social workers--and they make 'abysmal social workers,' we are told--benefits not the street dwellers but the developers who can now make a profit in the domesticated neighborhood. Down, Out, and Under Arrest is thus a well-supported critique of therapeutic policing and, by extension, of similar paternalistic efforts to help the poor by hassling them into good behavior. . . . Fascinating., In this exemplary ethnography of a Los Angeles neighborhood, we see the effects of community and institutional framing on the policing of poverty, on social service delivery, and on everyday resistance. . . . Stuart's book is vital in analyzing the far-reaching effects of neighborhood framing and the policing of poverty. Down, Out, and Under Arrest should be read widely, but especially by those interested in urban neighborhoods, policing, non-profits, poverty, culture, and social movements., An important and disturbing book. . . . Stuart portrays interesting, thoughtful people located in a tenuous yet all-embracing life world. His skill at maintaining the trust of those he interviewed shines on virtually every page, and he captures a sense of energy in the air as the contestants encounter each other., An intimate, multifaceted portrait of the police, residents and activists in their own voices. Down, Out, and Under Arrest adds new insights and much-needed complexity to the current debates on policing in the poorest urban areas of the U.S. It is a vivid and insightful five-year study of Los Angeles's Skid Row that contradicts much of the conventional wisdom about policing and the urban poor., Stuart's extraordinary field work in LA's Skid Row sheds new light on the regulation of the urban poor in the twenty-first century. This is urban ethnography at its best.
Dewey Decimal363.2
Table Of ContentPreface Map of Skid Row Introduction Part I Fixing the Poor 1 The Rise of Therapeutic Policing 2 From Rabble Management to Recovery Management Part II Becoming Copwise 3 Training for Survival 4 Cooling Off the Block 5 Policing the Police Conclusion Methodological Appendix: An Inconvenient Ethnography Acknowledgments Notes References Index
SynopsisIn his first year working in Los Angeles's Skid Row, Forrest Stuart was stopped on the street by police fourteen times. Usually for doing little more than standing there. Juliette, a woman he met during that time, has been stopped by police well over one hundred times, arrested upward of sixty times, and has given up more than a year of her life serving week-long jail sentences. Her most common crime? Simply sitting on the sidewalk--an arrestable offense in LA. Why? What purpose did those arrests serve, for society or for Juliette? How did we reach a point where we've cut support for our poorest citizens, yet are spending ever more on policing and prisons? That's the complicated, maddening story that Stuart tells in Down, Out and Under Arrest , a close-up look at the hows and whys of policing poverty in the contemporary United States. What emerges from Stuart's years of fieldwork--not only with Skid Row residents, but with the police charged with managing them--is a tragedy built on mistakes and misplaced priorities more than on heroes and villains. He reveals a situation where a lot of people on both sides of this issue are genuinely trying to do the right thing, yet often come up short. Sometimes, in ways that do serious harm. At a time when distrust between police and the residents of disadvantaged neighborhoods has never been higher, Stuart's book helps us see where we've gone wrong, and what steps we could take to begin to change the lives of our poorest citizens--and ultimately our society itself--for the better., Forrest Stuart gives us a new framework for understanding life in criminalized communities throughout America. The idea of "community policing" and of stop-and-frisk and broken windows is just part of the picture, which includes people on both sides of the issue of keeping order in Skid Row communities. Stuart's is a dramatic demonstration of how to understand the daily realities of America's most truly disadvantaged, an understanding that requires a sharp focus on the pervasive role and impact of the police. Policing--"zero tolerance" models in particular--is reshaping urban poverty and marginalization in 21st-century America. Stuart immersed himself for several years in the notorious "homeless capital of America," which is to say, Skid Row in Los Angeles. It has the largest concentration of standing police forces anywhere in the United States. On their side, the police practice what Stuart calls "therapeutic policing"--a form of virtual social work that is designed to "cure" the poor of individual pathologies. On the side of the homeless, Stuart finds a cunning set of techniques for evading police contact, which he dubs "cop wisdom" and which the poor use for intensifying resistance to roustings by the police. The police are tasked with day-to-day management of the growing numbers of citizens falling through the holes in the threadbare social safety net. We see daily patrol practices and routines that amount to "hyper-policing" in skid row districts. The continuous threat of punishment aims to steer homeless individuals away from self-destructive behaviors while providing incentives to drug recovery, employment, and life skills (in nearby meta-shelters). Minority upheavals now underway across America underscore the divide between cops and the urban poor (almost all of whom are black or Latino). Stuart joins Alice Goffman in revealing the underlying, and often tragic, dynamics.
LC Classification NumberHV7936.P8S78 2016
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