Down, Out, and Under Arrest

Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row

Bibliographic Data

ID19969822
AuthorsForrest Stuart (0000-0003-4840-2124), Forrest Daniel Stuart (corresponding author)
Year2016
Pages333
Publication date2016-08-02
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
Reviewed byDown, Out, and Under Arrest Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row, Bryant Crubaugh, 2017
VenueDown, out, and under arrest (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
OpenAlexW2497355144
Open LibraryOL27219637M
ISBN9780226370811
LanguageEN
Citations received26

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

Everyday life · Forensic engineering · Political science · Structural engineering · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Engineering · Law · Los angeles (calif.) · Police-community relations · Social conditions · united states · Urban poor

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