Ebook {Epub PDF} Down Out and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row by Forrest Stuart






















 · Overview. In 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 www.doorway.ru: University of Chicago Press. “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 Cited by:  · In 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 Acknowledgments:


Down, Out, and Under Arrest Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row. Forrest. Stuart. University of Chicago Press, pages. $ cloth. Bryant Crubaugh. Bryant Crubaugh. 1 Pepperdine University. Search for other works by this author on. Down, Out, and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row 1st Edition is written by Forrest Stuart and published by University of Chicago Press. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Down, Out, and Under Arrest are , X and the print ISBNs are , X. Save up to 80% versus print by going digital with VitalSource. "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.


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." — Social Forces. “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. “In 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 times, arrested upward of 60 times, and has given up more than a year of her life serving week-long jail sentences.

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