Down Out and Under Arrest: How Policing Shapes Everyday Life in Urban Poor Communitie

Since the 1990s, American cities have embraced hyper-aggressive policing policies. Drawing on over 7 years of in-depth, ethnographic fieldwork alongside police and residents in Los Angeles’s Skid Row and on Chicago’s South Side, Dr. Forrest Stuart analyzes how the omnipresent threat of harmful police contact reshapes the cultural contexts and patterned behaviors in criminalized neighborhoods. In the hope of reducing such police contact, residents adopt a particular cognitive schema—which he refers to as “cop wisdom”—that transforms the way residents understand and interact with physical environments, peers, and strangers. He traces how cop wisdom leads to new and potentially troubling forms of behavior and social interaction

When 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm on Monday, February 25, 2019
Building 100 Cummington Mall
Room 241
Contact Name Deborah Carr
Phone 17323091807
Contact Email carrds@bu.edu
Contact Organization Boston University, Department of Sociology
Fees Free
Speakers Forrest Stuart