Down, Out, and Under Arrest
Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row

- Contents
- Review Quotes
- Awards

Map of Skid Row
Part I Fixing the Poor
1 The Rise of Therapeutic Policing
2 From Rabble Management to Recovery Management
Part II Becoming Copwise
3 Training for Survival
4 Cooling Off the Block
5 Policing the Police
Conclusion
Methodological Appendix: An Inconvenient Ethnography
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index
“An intimate, multifaceted portrait of the police, residents and activists in their own voices. Down, Out, and Under Arrest adds new insights and much-needed complexity to the current debates on policing in the poorest urban areas of the U.S. It is a vivid and insightful five-year study of Los Angeles’s Skid Row that contradicts much of the conventional wisdom about policing and the urban poor.”
Choice Magazine: CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Awards
Won
The University of Chicago Press: Gordon J. Laing Award
Won
American Society of Criminology: Michael J. Hindelang Award
Won
ASA Community and Urban Sociology Section: Robert E. Park Award
Won
Political Science: Public Policy | Race and Politics
Sociology: Race, Ethnic, and Minority Relations | Urban and Rural Sociology
You may purchase this title at these fine bookstores. Outside the USA, see our international sales information.