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policing and everyday life in skid row

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An edition of Down, out, and under arrest (2016)

Down, out, and under arrest

policing and everyday life in skid row

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In his first year working in Los Angeles's Skid Row, sociologist 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. 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 this 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.--From dust jacket.

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Pages
333

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Down, Out, and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row
Apr 06, 2018, University of Chicago Press
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Down Out & Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row
2016, University of Chicago Press
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Down, out, and under arrest: policing and everyday life in skid row
2016, University of Chicago Press
in English

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Table of Contents

Fixing the poor
The rise of therapeutic policing
From rabble management to recovery management
Becoming copwise
Training for survival
Cooling off the block
Policing the police.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
363.2/320869420979494
Library of Congress
HV7936.P8 S78 2016, HV7936.P8S78 2016

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 333 pages
Number of pages
333

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27219637M
ISBN 10
022637081X
ISBN 13
9780226370811
LCCN
2015046039
OCLC/WorldCat
920017580
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B01JLREM6K

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