Down, Out, and Under Arrest Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row
2017; Oxford University Press; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/sf/sox003
ISSN1534-7605
Autores Tópico(s)Homelessness and Social Issues
ResumoSkid Row is the neighborhood for those whose lives skid out, who are unhoused, unemployed, ailing from addictions and mental health conditions. In other words, it is for those who do not fit in other, proper neighborhoods. This is the common frame of mega-shelters, of police, and even of some Skid Row residents. Yet other residents resist this frame and work to create a viable neighborhood. 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. In Down, Out, and Under Arrest, Stuart delivers a highly engaging ethnography of multiple sites in Skid Row, analyzing the far-reaching effects of neighborhood frames and what he defines as therapeutic policing. This style of policing is built on an assumption that poverty is fundamentally a behavioral issue and on the negative framing of Skid Row. Police are activated in a form of “social work that aims to transform and reintegrate residents as productive, self-governing citizens” (p. 15). In therapeutic policing, police are deep collaborators with mega-shelters, the non-profit organizations that provide emergency food, shelter, and rehabilitative programs. This new approach to policing has infiltrated the daily lives of Skid Row residents and has sparked new forms of everyday resistance that both perpetuate and eliminate its various effects.
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