《贫穷有罪？》内容简介
近年来，美国最贫困的社区经历了巨变。最明显的一点是，许多曾被忽视的社区与空间如今部署了大量警力。据信，这不仅是为了维护治安，更是为了将流离失所、没有工作、饱受成瘾和身心疾病困扰的人们引回正途。
不过，这种怀有真诚善意的政策，在洛杉矶贫民区的居民们看来，却将他们推入了更深的困境。他们不断因为在人行道上坐卧、不按规矩横穿马路等等轻罪被截停、搜查甚至逮捕，被要求参加大型庇护所的矫治项目，以至于失去本就不安稳的工作和住所。贫穷本身似乎就会招致更多的定罪。
这样的困局何以形成？为了寻找答案，社会学家福雷斯特·斯图尔特用5年的时间深入洛杉矶贫民区，他与居民一起拾荒、健身，和小贩一起摆摊，跟随警察巡逻，加入社区组织，自己也多次被警察截停搜查。经历了贫民区内不同群体的日常生活后，他发现，这是一个由错误与优先级错置造成的悲剧，而非英雄与邪恶势力的缠斗。这个困局的背后是政策、思潮、社会结构的变迁，其中也隐约包含着改善的希望。
作者简介
福雷斯特·斯图尔特
现为斯坦福大学社会学教授，斯坦福民族志实验室主任，城市研究项目主任，麦克阿瑟研究员，社会研究学会会员。著有《子弹之歌》（BalladoftheBullet）。
他用城市民族志的方法做研究，采用田野调查和档案研究等质性研究方法探索城市贫困的成因、现状和后果。他延续芝加哥社会学派的方法，观察个人和社群如何理解自身所处的社会世界，提倡公共社会学的理念，期望社群成员也成为知识的生产者。
2020年，获得麦克阿瑟天才奖。
Poverty Is Guilty? Content introduction
America's poorest communities have seen dramatic change in recent years. Most obviously, many neighborhoods and Spaces that were once neglected are now heavily policed. It is believed that this is not only to maintain law and order, but also to bring people who are displaced, unemployed, suffering from addiction and physical and mental illness back to the right path.
But this genuinely well-intentioned policy, in the eyes of the residents of Los Angeles' slums, has pushed them deeper into trouble. They are constantly stopped, searched and arrested for minor offenses such as sitting on sidewalks and jaywalking. They are required to participate in rehabilitation programs at large shelters, and they lose their already precarious jobs and homes. Poverty itself seems to lead to more convictions.
How did this dilemma come about? In search of answers, sociologist Forrest Stewart spent five years in the slums of Los Angeles, where he scavenged with residents, worked out, set up stalls with vendors, followed police patrols, joined community organizations, and was repeatedly stopped and searched by police. As he experiences the daily lives of different groups in the ghetto, he discovers that this is a tragedy caused by mistakes and misplaced priorities, not a battle between heroes and evil forces. Behind this dilemma is the change of policy, ideological trend and social structure, which also vaguely contains the hope of improvement.
About the author
Forrest Stewart
He is currently Professor of Sociology at Stanford University, director of the Stanford Ethnographic Lab, director of the Urban Studies Program, a MacArthur Fellow, and a Fellow of the Society for Social Research. He is the author of BalladoftheBullet.
He uses the methods of urban ethnography to explore the causes, status and consequences of urban poverty by field investigation and archival research. He continued the Chicago School approach of observing how individuals and communities make sense of the social world in which they live, and promoted the idea of public sociology in which community members are expected to become producers of knowledge.
In 2020, he received a MacArthur Genius Grant.
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