List of Tables
List of Figures
Foreword
Preface to the Phoenix Edition
Preface
Acknowledgements
I. Skid Row and Supporting Institutions
1. Skid Row: The Professional Overview and the Participant Close-up
Introduction
The Professionals' View of Skid Row
Skid Row as Residents See It
Multiple Realities and the "Insight Phenomenon"
2. Making the Rehab Route: Dual Perspectives on Rehabilitation Agencies
Introduction
Control and Containment Versus Therapy and Rehabilitation
The Routing Dilemma
Underground Conveyor Systems
II. Strategies of Control and Containment
3. Policing Skid Row and Keeping the Peace: The Dilemma of Handling the Socially Unattached
Introduction
The Police View Their Assignment
The Row Man Views the Police
4. The Judicial Screening Process: Reinforcement of the Policeman's Decision
Introduction
Drunk Court—The Adult Parallel to Juvenile Court, Sentencing as an Assembly-Line Outrage
5. County Jail as a Station on the Loop: The Alcoholic in the Multipurpose Jail
Introduction
The Jailer's Dilemma
An Inmate's Perspective on Serving a Sentence
III. Strategies of Rehabilitation
6. Mental and Physical Therapy: Realities and Adjustments at Two Loop Stations
Introductions
Reality Adjustment of the Jail Branch Clinic Staff
Reality Adjustment of the Alcoholics to the Jail Branch Clinic
Reality Adjustment of the Staff at the State Mental Hospital
Reality Adjustment of the Patients at the State Mental Hospital
7. Spiritual Salvation: The Last Resort
Introduction
The Christian Missionaries' Human Salvage Operation
Being Salvaged: Life with the Christian Missionaries as Seen by the Skid Row Alcoholic
IV. Strategies of Survival
8. The Return to Society: The Prodigal Son Syndrome in Rehabilitation
Introduction
Making a Comeback: Envisioned Goals and Professional Plans
The Skid Row Man Puts "The Plan" into Operation
Cycling Out
9. Benefactors, Beneficiaries, Compassion, Gratitude, and Trust: Forms of Social Relationships Between the Helper and the Helped
Introduction
Emotions and the Giver-Receiver Relationship
Whose Description of Reality Prevails?
Self-Generating Aspects of the Loop
Appendix: Methodology
Introduction
Deciphering the Actor's Perspective
Research Decisions and Developmental Stages
Notes
Index