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Homeless in Las Vegas
Stories from the Street
Kurt Borchard
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Homeless in Las Vegas
Stories from the Street
Kurt Borchard
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The homeless men and women represented in this book speak candidly about their plight, its origins, and the many obstacles to escaping it. They discuss the unique challenges and opportunities that Las Vegas's focus on tourism, indulgence, and diversion offers its homeless residents. This compelling and emotionally charged ethnography counters many of the stereotypes of homeless men and women, revealing the remarkable diversity of their circumstances. It also offers their perspectives on social services and civic attitudes toward homelessness.
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SociologyIndex
abeyance theory, 91, 148ā49
abstinence-only alcohol interventions, 95ā96
African Americans: homeless men (see homeless African American men); homeless women, 85ā86; issues of opportunity and inequality, 53ā54; social support and, 54
Albuquerque (N.Mex.), 214, 215
alcohol: homeless people and, 42ā43, 55; Kevinās story, 65, 68, 70; Las Vegas and, 95
alcoholism: Alaskaās story, 86ā94; Bruceās story, 75ā85, 86, 87; interventions for the homeless, 55, 88, 91, 95ā96
American Civil Liberties Union, 218
American Dream, 20, 21
āamnesty,ā 137ā38
anti-narratives, 20ā21
Aryan Brotherhood, 62, 72
Assertive Community Treatment program, 88
Ayres, Nathaniel, 103
Barr, Murray, 96
bartering, 175
Beeson, Ty, 4
boosting. See shoplifting
Bowling Alone (Putnam & Feldstein), 200
Bryson, E. Brent, 218
Bubeck, Zachary, 6ā7
Bumfights (video), 4ā7, 100
ābums,ā 28
bureaucracy: āiron cageā of, 135
bus passes, 158
Cambridge Community Center, 175
camps. see homeless camps and communities
Canada, Geoffrey, 54
Cashman Center, 138
Catholic Charities, 138ā39, 147
cell phones, 188, 189
charities: approaches to homelessness, 3ā4; principle of āless eligibilityā and, 27, 81; principle of residual social welfare and, 25; views of the homeless on, 116, 117, 119
child molesters, 72ā73
cigarettes, 160, 193
Circle Park. See Huntridge Circle Park
clothing, 45ā46, 174, 175
College Park Baptist Church, 140
community health programs, 112
community mental health systems, 101, 102, 120
computers, 11, 12, 173
Continuum of Care (CoC), 78, 88, 119
crack cocaine, 83, 97, 98
Davidson, Larry, 101
Davis, Angela, 167
day labor, 58ā59, 142ā43, 155. See also employment
day labor halls, 142ā43
deinstitutionalization movement, 101, 118
distraction, 20ā21
Dos Passos, John, 10
Downtown Transportation Center, 34ā35, 70
drug addicts: Bruceās comments on, 77ā78, 79, 83; crack cocaine, 83, 97, 98; Garyās story, 121ā35; harm reduction treatment, 136; in homeless camps, 77ā78; i...