Forrest Stuart
Biographic Data
| ID | 232385 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Forrest Stuart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Forrest |
| FAMILY NAME | Stuart |
| SIGNATURE | STUART F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4840-2124 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 434 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
The Deviant Worlds of Howard Becker
“What Do I Do with All of These Data?”: A New Pragmatist Framework for Coding and Analysis
In qualitative research, few tasks are more foundational—and more frustrating—than coding and analysis. The process of deciding which data to focus on, how to code it, and when to move from descriptive labels to analytical claims can feel like a leap in the dark. Drawing on the pragmatist tradition of examining social action as creative problem solving, this article introduces a structured but flexible framework—the goal-obstacle-strategy-implica…
Where do neighbourhood reputations come from? Analysing Chicago community areas using a systematic neighbourhood reputation score, 1985–2020
A longstanding maxim of urban research is that neighbourhood reputations matter. The subjective narratives and stereotypes about a neighbourhood influence a range of consequential processes, outcomes and inequalities. Yet, there remains considerable ambiguity regarding the primary drivers of the neighbourhood status hierarchy. What are the primary factors responsible for neighbourhood reputations? How and why do reputations change over time? Unfo…
What Is Gang Culture?: Three Conceptualizations of an Elusive Concept
Over the last century of gang scholarship, it is difficult to find a more ubiquitous yet underdefined term than “gang culture.” What, precisely, have researchers meant when they deployed this term, and how might contemporary studies reconcile these past conceptions to productive effect? Toward improving the theoretical, analytical, and methodological precision of ongoing gang scholarship, the chapter contends that researchers have historically ad…
Displacement frames: How residents perceive, explain and respond to un-homing in Black San Francisco
Few urban phenomena command as much attention as displacement. Scholars continue to refine conceptualisations of displacement to more effectively capture its diversity in forms, scales and temporalities. Recent research advocates a more inclusive conceptualisation, attuned to the processes of ‘un-homing’ – that is, the more subtle, ‘non-catastrophic’ forms of ‘slow violence’ that rupture residents’ phenomenological attachments to place and home. …
Policing gentrification or policing displacement? Testing the relationship between order maintenance policing and neighbourhood change in Los Angeles
Urban scholars increasingly contend that local police departments play a central role in facilitating neighbourhood change. Recent critics warn that ‘order maintenance’ policing and other low-level law enforcement tactics are deployed in gentrifying areas to displace ‘disorderly’ populations. Despite influential qualitative case studies, there remains scant quantitative research testing this relationship, and few studies that evaluate the link be…
How Social Media Use Mitigates Urban Violence: Communication Visibility and Third-Party Intervention Processes in Digital Urban Contexts
Rester vrai. Authenticité et stratégies de promotion en ligne dans la scène drill de Chicago
Dans cet article, il s’agit d’interroger la relation au travail de jeunes sans diplôme, étudiants d’un centre de formation professionnelle de Bologne, dans la région italienne de l’Émilie-Romagne. Dans une première partie, les auteurs présentent la situation des jeunes sur le marché du travail italien et leurs difficultés en revenant brièvement sur la progression des dispositifs normatifs qui favorisent le mélange entre formation et emploi comme …
Whose Lives Matter? Race, Space, and the Devaluation of Homicide Victims in Minority Communities
The recurring, horrific deaths of minority residents at the hands of police officers and vigilantes have led social movements and international protests to amplify the charge that whereas the loss of White lives is seen as tragic, the loss of Black and Hispanic lives is treated as normal, acceptable, and even inevitable. Building on and advancing theories of “color-blind racism,” the authors examine the process by which the news media uphold and …
Gang Research in the Twenty-First Century
For nearly a century, gang scholarship has remained foundational to criminological theory and method. Twenty-first-century scholarship continues to refine and, in some cases, supplant long-held axioms about gang formation, organization, and behavior. Recent advances can be traced to shifts in the empirical social reality and conditions within which gangs exist and act. We draw out this relationship—between the ontological and epistemological—by i…
Addressing urban disorder without police: How Seattle'sLeadprogram responds tobehavioral‐health‐relateddisruptions, resolves business complaints, and reconfigures the field of public safety
Since the late twentieth century, as part of a broad effort to maximize the profitability of commercial spaces and address the complaints of business interests, cities have increasingly criminalized the presence and behavior of populations perceived as disorderly. The resulting police interactions produce a range of deleterious outcomes, particularly for individuals contending with mental health and substance use disorders, homelessness, and othe…
Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy
How poor urban youth in Chicago use social media to profit from portrayals of gang violence, and the questions this raises about poverty, opportunities, and public voyeurismAmid increasing hardship and limited employment options, poor urban youth are developing creative online strategies to make ends meet. Using such social media platforms as YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram, they’re capitalizing on the public’s fascination with the ghetto and gan…
Code of the Tweet: Urban Gang Violence in the Social Media Age
Academics, criminal justice professionals, and news outlets have warned that gang-associated youth use social media to taunt rivals and trade insults in ways that cause offline retaliation. But there is surprisingly little empirical research investigating how gang-associated youth deploy social media in gang conflicts. Criminal justice professionals routinely overstate the violent effects of social media challenges, which further exacerbates crim…
Criminalized Masculinities: How Policing Shapes the Construction of Gender and Sexuality in Poor Black Communities
With the intensification of policing and criminalization over the last three decades, residents of impoverished black communities are increasingly subject to street-level criminalization. This article examines how policing shapes the construction of gender and sexuality among its (potential) targets. Drawing on 12 months of fieldwork and interviews with 60 black youth living on Chicago’s South Side, we find that in order to reduce the probability…
Carceral Citizenship: Race, Rights and Responsibility in the Age of Mass Supervision
Scholars have shown how formal processes of legal exclusion coupled with ubiquitous criminal justice contact relegate the largely black poor targets of the carceral state to second-class citizenship. Building upon but departing from this work, we reveal how carceral expansion has not just produced new forms of second-class citizenship for poor black Americans, but an alternate citizenship category and a distinct form of political membership—what …
Policing Social Marginality: Contrasting Approaches
Urban police officers concentrate much attention on individuals who experience various forms of inequality. Some police tactics that address the socially marginal garner public concern, especially when violence occurs. Solutions to such police-community tensions are elusive, in part because police cannot meaningfully reduce inequality. Yet there are better and worse ways to police the impoverished, and we use this article to contrast three genera…
The Prisonized Old Head: Intergenerational Socialization and the Fusion of Ghetto and Prison Culture
Over the last four decades, the United States' criminal justice system has undergone a historic expansion, which has disproportionately impacted poor urban neighborhoods. The meteoric rise in the percentage of the urban poor either on their way to, in, or recently released from jail or prison has led a number of scholars to theorize a "fusion of ghetto and prison culture" (Wacquant 2001). The exact sources and contours of this fusion, however, re…
Down, Out, and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row
Down, Out, and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row
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--a…
"Becoming "Copwise: Policing, Culture, and the Collateral Consequences of Street-Level Criminalization
Over the last four decades, the United States has witnessed a historic expansion of its criminal justice system. This article examines how street-level criminalization transforms the cultural contexts of poor urban communities. Drawing on five years of fieldwork in Los Angeles' Skid Row-the site of one of the most aggressive zero-tolerance policing campaigns to date-the study finds that residents develop and deploy a particular cultural frame-"co…
Legal Control of Marginal Groups
The legal control of marginal groups is a central topic in social scientific and legal scholarship. Examining the most influential research produced over the past two decades, as well as a broad collection of foundational and exemplary texts, this review addresses two overarching questions: First, what does it mean to study the legal control of marginal groups in the twenty-first century? Second, what are the recent developments, lingering concer…
On the Streets, Under Arrest: Policing Homelessness in the 21st Century
Since the earliest days of the discipline, sociologists have viewed homelessness as a premier index of inequality and poverty more generally. Sociologists have increasingly turned to the regulation and policing of homelessness as a lens for analyzing how a given society understands and interacts with those who exist at the bottom of the social hierarchy. Against this intellectual backdrop, this article traces recent developments in the policing o…
From ’Rabble Management’ to ’Recovery Management’: Policing Homelessness in Marginal Urban Space
Over the past three decades, scholars have documented the emergence of a new model of urban governance predicated on the spatial exclusion of visible poverty. In order to revitalise and recommodify the prime spaces of the urban core, municipal leaders enlist the police to coercively relocate homeless people to marginal spaces. Unfortunately, little is known about the policing of homelessness in those areas into which homeless people are exiled. T…
Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders
Constructing Police Abuse after Rodney King: How Skid Row Residents and the Los Angeles Police Department Contest Video Evidence
This ethnographic article explores the manner in which the Los Angeles Community Action Network (LACAN), a grassroots organization made up of homeless and low‐income Skid Row residents, generates video evidence for use in lawsuits against the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). For marginalized communities fighting police abuse, the 1992 acquittal of four LAPD officers charged with the beating of Rodney King demonstrated that even the most “obv…
Carceral Citizenship: Race, Rights and Responsibility in the Age of Mass Supervision
Scholars have shown how formal processes of legal exclusion coupled with ubiquitous criminal justice contact relegate the largely black poor targets of the carceral state to second-class citizenship. Building upon but departing from this work, we reveal how carceral expansion has not just produced new forms of second-class citizenship for poor black Americans, but an alternate citizenship category and a distinct form of political membership—what …
"Becoming "Copwise: Policing, Culture, and the Collateral Consequences of Street-Level Criminalization
Over the last four decades, the United States has witnessed a historic expansion of its criminal justice system. This article examines how street-level criminalization transforms the cultural contexts of poor urban communities. Drawing on five years of fieldwork in Los Angeles' Skid Row-the site of one of the most aggressive zero-tolerance policing campaigns to date-the study finds that residents develop and deploy a particular cultural frame-"co…
From ’Rabble Management’ to ’Recovery Management’: Policing Homelessness in Marginal Urban Space
Over the past three decades, scholars have documented the emergence of a new model of urban governance predicated on the spatial exclusion of visible poverty. In order to revitalise and recommodify the prime spaces of the urban core, municipal leaders enlist the police to coercively relocate homeless people to marginal spaces. Unfortunately, little is known about the policing of homelessness in those areas into which homeless people are exiled. T…
Legal Control of Marginal Groups
The legal control of marginal groups is a central topic in social scientific and legal scholarship. Examining the most influential research produced over the past two decades, as well as a broad collection of foundational and exemplary texts, this review addresses two overarching questions: First, what does it mean to study the legal control of marginal groups in the twenty-first century? Second, what are the recent developments, lingering concer…
Policing Social Marginality: Contrasting Approaches
Urban police officers concentrate much attention on individuals who experience various forms of inequality. Some police tactics that address the socially marginal garner public concern, especially when violence occurs. Solutions to such police-community tensions are elusive, in part because police cannot meaningfully reduce inequality. Yet there are better and worse ways to police the impoverished, and we use this article to contrast three genera…
Criminalized Masculinities: How Policing Shapes the Construction of Gender and Sexuality in Poor Black Communities
With the intensification of policing and criminalization over the last three decades, residents of impoverished black communities are increasingly subject to street-level criminalization. This article examines how policing shapes the construction of gender and sexuality among its (potential) targets. Drawing on 12 months of fieldwork and interviews with 60 black youth living on Chicago’s South Side, we find that in order to reduce the probability…
Code of the Tweet: Urban Gang Violence in the Social Media Age
Academics, criminal justice professionals, and news outlets have warned that gang-associated youth use social media to taunt rivals and trade insults in ways that cause offline retaliation. But there is surprisingly little empirical research investigating how gang-associated youth deploy social media in gang conflicts. Criminal justice professionals routinely overstate the violent effects of social media challenges, which further exacerbates crim…
On the Streets, Under Arrest: Policing Homelessness in the 21st Century
Since the earliest days of the discipline, sociologists have viewed homelessness as a premier index of inequality and poverty more generally. Sociologists have increasingly turned to the regulation and policing of homelessness as a lens for analyzing how a given society understands and interacts with those who exist at the bottom of the social hierarchy. Against this intellectual backdrop, this article traces recent developments in the policing o…
Constructing Police Abuse after Rodney King: How Skid Row Residents and the Los Angeles Police Department Contest Video Evidence
This ethnographic article explores the manner in which the Los Angeles Community Action Network (LACAN), a grassroots organization made up of homeless and low‐income Skid Row residents, generates video evidence for use in lawsuits against the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). For marginalized communities fighting police abuse, the 1992 acquittal of four LAPD officers charged with the beating of Rodney King demonstrated that even the most “obv…
Race, Space, and the Regulation of Surplus Labor: Policing African Americans in Los Angeles's Skid Row
This essay examines the joint racial and class domination exercised in Los Angeles's Skid Row. Known widely as the "homeless capital of the United States," Skid Row has become home to a predominantly African American population, drawn to the area by social services that have been purposefully relocated from other parts of the city. Through the partnership of criminal justice and social welfare institutions, this population is "reprogrammed" in wo…
Culture and Law: Beyond a Paradigm of Cause and Effect
This article examines a variety of ways in which social scientists make cultural argument about the law, including (1) holding culture as the independent variable to explain variations in law, (2) taking law as an independent variable to explain culture, or (3) considering law as culture. The authors explore each general strategy and its advantages and disadvantages in turn and argue that the law as culture perspective is one of the most interest…
Policing gentrification or policing displacement? Testing the relationship between order maintenance policing and neighbourhood change in Los Angeles
Urban scholars increasingly contend that local police departments play a central role in facilitating neighbourhood change. Recent critics warn that ‘order maintenance’ policing and other low-level law enforcement tactics are deployed in gentrifying areas to displace ‘disorderly’ populations. Despite influential qualitative case studies, there remains scant quantitative research testing this relationship, and few studies that evaluate the link be…
Gang Research in the Twenty-First Century
For nearly a century, gang scholarship has remained foundational to criminological theory and method. Twenty-first-century scholarship continues to refine and, in some cases, supplant long-held axioms about gang formation, organization, and behavior. Recent advances can be traced to shifts in the empirical social reality and conditions within which gangs exist and act. We draw out this relationship—between the ontological and epistemological—by i…
The Prisonized Old Head: Intergenerational Socialization and the Fusion of Ghetto and Prison Culture
Over the last four decades, the United States' criminal justice system has undergone a historic expansion, which has disproportionately impacted poor urban neighborhoods. The meteoric rise in the percentage of the urban poor either on their way to, in, or recently released from jail or prison has led a number of scholars to theorize a "fusion of ghetto and prison culture" (Wacquant 2001). The exact sources and contours of this fusion, however, re…
How Social Media Use Mitigates Urban Violence: Communication Visibility and Third-Party Intervention Processes in Digital Urban Contexts
Addressing urban disorder without police: How Seattle'sLeadprogram responds tobehavioral‐health‐relateddisruptions, resolves business complaints, and reconfigures the field of public safety
Since the late twentieth century, as part of a broad effort to maximize the profitability of commercial spaces and address the complaints of business interests, cities have increasingly criminalized the presence and behavior of populations perceived as disorderly. The resulting police interactions produce a range of deleterious outcomes, particularly for individuals contending with mental health and substance use disorders, homelessness, and othe…
Displacement frames: How residents perceive, explain and respond to un-homing in Black San Francisco
Few urban phenomena command as much attention as displacement. Scholars continue to refine conceptualisations of displacement to more effectively capture its diversity in forms, scales and temporalities. Recent research advocates a more inclusive conceptualisation, attuned to the processes of ‘un-homing’ – that is, the more subtle, ‘non-catastrophic’ forms of ‘slow violence’ that rupture residents’ phenomenological attachments to place and home. …
Where do neighbourhood reputations come from? Analysing Chicago community areas using a systematic neighbourhood reputation score, 1985–2020
A longstanding maxim of urban research is that neighbourhood reputations matter. The subjective narratives and stereotypes about a neighbourhood influence a range of consequential processes, outcomes and inequalities. Yet, there remains considerable ambiguity regarding the primary drivers of the neighbourhood status hierarchy. What are the primary factors responsible for neighbourhood reputations? How and why do reputations change over time? Unfo…
Culture and Law: Beyond a Paradigm of Cause and Effect
This article examines a variety of ways in which social scientists make cultural argument about the law, including (1) holding culture as the independent variable to explain variations in law, (2) taking law as an independent variable to explain culture, or (3) considering law as culture. The authors explore each general strategy and its advantages and disadvantages in turn and argue that the law as culture perspective is one of the most interest…
Constructing Police Abuse after Rodney King: How Skid Row Residents and the Los Angeles Police Department Contest Video Evidence
This ethnographic article explores the manner in which the Los Angeles Community Action Network (LACAN), a grassroots organization made up of homeless and low‐income Skid Row residents, generates video evidence for use in lawsuits against the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). For marginalized communities fighting police abuse, the 1992 acquittal of four LAPD officers charged with the beating of Rodney King demonstrated that even the most “obv…
Race, Space, and the Regulation of Surplus Labor: Policing African Americans in Los Angeles's Skid Row
This essay examines the joint racial and class domination exercised in Los Angeles's Skid Row. Known widely as the "homeless capital of the United States," Skid Row has become home to a predominantly African American population, drawn to the area by social services that have been purposefully relocated from other parts of the city. Through the partnership of criminal justice and social welfare institutions, this population is "reprogrammed" in wo…
Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders
From ’Rabble Management’ to ’Recovery Management’: Policing Homelessness in Marginal Urban Space
Over the past three decades, scholars have documented the emergence of a new model of urban governance predicated on the spatial exclusion of visible poverty. In order to revitalise and recommodify the prime spaces of the urban core, municipal leaders enlist the police to coercively relocate homeless people to marginal spaces. Unfortunately, little is known about the policing of homelessness in those areas into which homeless people are exiled. T…
Legal Control of Marginal Groups
The legal control of marginal groups is a central topic in social scientific and legal scholarship. Examining the most influential research produced over the past two decades, as well as a broad collection of foundational and exemplary texts, this review addresses two overarching questions: First, what does it mean to study the legal control of marginal groups in the twenty-first century? Second, what are the recent developments, lingering concer…
On the Streets, Under Arrest: Policing Homelessness in the 21st Century
Since the earliest days of the discipline, sociologists have viewed homelessness as a premier index of inequality and poverty more generally. Sociologists have increasingly turned to the regulation and policing of homelessness as a lens for analyzing how a given society understands and interacts with those who exist at the bottom of the social hierarchy. Against this intellectual backdrop, this article traces recent developments in the policing o…
Down, Out, and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row
Down, Out, and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row
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--a…
"Becoming "Copwise: Policing, Culture, and the Collateral Consequences of Street-Level Criminalization
Over the last four decades, the United States has witnessed a historic expansion of its criminal justice system. This article examines how street-level criminalization transforms the cultural contexts of poor urban communities. Drawing on five years of fieldwork in Los Angeles' Skid Row-the site of one of the most aggressive zero-tolerance policing campaigns to date-the study finds that residents develop and deploy a particular cultural frame-"co…
Carceral Citizenship: Race, Rights and Responsibility in the Age of Mass Supervision
Scholars have shown how formal processes of legal exclusion coupled with ubiquitous criminal justice contact relegate the largely black poor targets of the carceral state to second-class citizenship. Building upon but departing from this work, we reveal how carceral expansion has not just produced new forms of second-class citizenship for poor black Americans, but an alternate citizenship category and a distinct form of political membership—what …
Policing Social Marginality: Contrasting Approaches
Urban police officers concentrate much attention on individuals who experience various forms of inequality. Some police tactics that address the socially marginal garner public concern, especially when violence occurs. Solutions to such police-community tensions are elusive, in part because police cannot meaningfully reduce inequality. Yet there are better and worse ways to police the impoverished, and we use this article to contrast three genera…
The Prisonized Old Head: Intergenerational Socialization and the Fusion of Ghetto and Prison Culture
Over the last four decades, the United States' criminal justice system has undergone a historic expansion, which has disproportionately impacted poor urban neighborhoods. The meteoric rise in the percentage of the urban poor either on their way to, in, or recently released from jail or prison has led a number of scholars to theorize a "fusion of ghetto and prison culture" (Wacquant 2001). The exact sources and contours of this fusion, however, re…
Criminalized Masculinities: How Policing Shapes the Construction of Gender and Sexuality in Poor Black Communities
With the intensification of policing and criminalization over the last three decades, residents of impoverished black communities are increasingly subject to street-level criminalization. This article examines how policing shapes the construction of gender and sexuality among its (potential) targets. Drawing on 12 months of fieldwork and interviews with 60 black youth living on Chicago’s South Side, we find that in order to reduce the probability…
Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy
How poor urban youth in Chicago use social media to profit from portrayals of gang violence, and the questions this raises about poverty, opportunities, and public voyeurismAmid increasing hardship and limited employment options, poor urban youth are developing creative online strategies to make ends meet. Using such social media platforms as YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram, they’re capitalizing on the public’s fascination with the ghetto and gan…
Code of the Tweet: Urban Gang Violence in the Social Media Age
Academics, criminal justice professionals, and news outlets have warned that gang-associated youth use social media to taunt rivals and trade insults in ways that cause offline retaliation. But there is surprisingly little empirical research investigating how gang-associated youth deploy social media in gang conflicts. Criminal justice professionals routinely overstate the violent effects of social media challenges, which further exacerbates crim…
Rester vrai. Authenticité et stratégies de promotion en ligne dans la scène drill de Chicago
Dans cet article, il s’agit d’interroger la relation au travail de jeunes sans diplôme, étudiants d’un centre de formation professionnelle de Bologne, dans la région italienne de l’Émilie-Romagne. Dans une première partie, les auteurs présentent la situation des jeunes sur le marché du travail italien et leurs difficultés en revenant brièvement sur la progression des dispositifs normatifs qui favorisent le mélange entre formation et emploi comme …
Whose Lives Matter? Race, Space, and the Devaluation of Homicide Victims in Minority Communities
The recurring, horrific deaths of minority residents at the hands of police officers and vigilantes have led social movements and international protests to amplify the charge that whereas the loss of White lives is seen as tragic, the loss of Black and Hispanic lives is treated as normal, acceptable, and even inevitable. Building on and advancing theories of “color-blind racism,” the authors examine the process by which the news media uphold and …
Gang Research in the Twenty-First Century
For nearly a century, gang scholarship has remained foundational to criminological theory and method. Twenty-first-century scholarship continues to refine and, in some cases, supplant long-held axioms about gang formation, organization, and behavior. Recent advances can be traced to shifts in the empirical social reality and conditions within which gangs exist and act. We draw out this relationship—between the ontological and epistemological—by i…
Addressing urban disorder without police: How Seattle'sLeadprogram responds tobehavioral‐health‐relateddisruptions, resolves business complaints, and reconfigures the field of public safety
Since the late twentieth century, as part of a broad effort to maximize the profitability of commercial spaces and address the complaints of business interests, cities have increasingly criminalized the presence and behavior of populations perceived as disorderly. The resulting police interactions produce a range of deleterious outcomes, particularly for individuals contending with mental health and substance use disorders, homelessness, and othe…
Policing gentrification or policing displacement? Testing the relationship between order maintenance policing and neighbourhood change in Los Angeles
Urban scholars increasingly contend that local police departments play a central role in facilitating neighbourhood change. Recent critics warn that ‘order maintenance’ policing and other low-level law enforcement tactics are deployed in gentrifying areas to displace ‘disorderly’ populations. Despite influential qualitative case studies, there remains scant quantitative research testing this relationship, and few studies that evaluate the link be…
How Social Media Use Mitigates Urban Violence: Communication Visibility and Third-Party Intervention Processes in Digital Urban Contexts
Displacement frames: How residents perceive, explain and respond to un-homing in Black San Francisco
Few urban phenomena command as much attention as displacement. Scholars continue to refine conceptualisations of displacement to more effectively capture its diversity in forms, scales and temporalities. Recent research advocates a more inclusive conceptualisation, attuned to the processes of ‘un-homing’ – that is, the more subtle, ‘non-catastrophic’ forms of ‘slow violence’ that rupture residents’ phenomenological attachments to place and home. …
What Is Gang Culture?: Three Conceptualizations of an Elusive Concept
Over the last century of gang scholarship, it is difficult to find a more ubiquitous yet underdefined term than “gang culture.” What, precisely, have researchers meant when they deployed this term, and how might contemporary studies reconcile these past conceptions to productive effect? Toward improving the theoretical, analytical, and methodological precision of ongoing gang scholarship, the chapter contends that researchers have historically ad…
Where do neighbourhood reputations come from? Analysing Chicago community areas using a systematic neighbourhood reputation score, 1985–2020
A longstanding maxim of urban research is that neighbourhood reputations matter. The subjective narratives and stereotypes about a neighbourhood influence a range of consequential processes, outcomes and inequalities. Yet, there remains considerable ambiguity regarding the primary drivers of the neighbourhood status hierarchy. What are the primary factors responsible for neighbourhood reputations? How and why do reputations change over time? Unfo…
Sociology (19 works) · Political science (16 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (15 works) · Criminology (14 works) · Law (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (9 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works)