Whose Voice? The Role of Charities in the Rise of Hyper‐Policing of Their Clients

• Author: Joseph Mead
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/puar.12739
• Published date: 01 March 2017
• Date: 01 March 2017

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Joseph Mead is assistant professor

at Cleveland State University, where he

holds a joint appointment with the Maxine

Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs

and the Cleveland-Marshall College

of Law. He currently serves as director

of the university ’ s Master of Nonprofit

Administration and Leadership degree

program. Professor Mead ’ s research focuses

on nonprofit management and law, and

he has successfully advocated for repeal

of laws that criminalize the homeless in

urban areas.

E-mail: j.mead@csuohio.edu

Forrest Stuart , Down, Out, and Under Arrest: Policing

and Everyday Life in Skid Row ( Chicago : University

of Chicago Press , 2016 ). 333 pp. $22.32 (hardcover),

ISBN: 139780226370811.

I n a time of an overdue national conversation

about the use of deadly police force, Forrest

Stuart ’ s Down, Out, and Under Arrest: Policing

and Everyday Life in Skid Row supplies an answer to

the antecedent question of why there are so many law

enforcement contacts for mundane activity in the first

place. Stuart spent five years experiencing the sights

and traumas of Los Angeles’s Skid Row neighborhood,

one of the best-known geographic concentrations of

the homeless and destitute in the United States. As a

sociologist, Stuart ’ s book emphasizes the intersection

of race, class, space, and social control. As the

public grows increasingly and painfully aware that

unnecessary death is a possible outcome of every law

enforcement interaction (even for trivial offenses), this

Danny L. Balfour , Editor

Joseph Mead

Cleveland State University

Whose Voice? The Role of Charities in the Rise

of Hyper-Policing of Their Clients