When first published in 1970, Stations of the Lost won the C. Wright Mills Award for Best Book in the Area of Social Problems. The study considers the Skid Row alcoholic from two points of view, that of the alcoholic himself and that of the agents of social control who treat him. A major discovery of Wiseman's research was that Skid Row men spend only about one third of the year on Skid Row. The rest of the time is spent "making the loop"--going from Skid Row to city jail, to county jail, to the state mental hospital, to ...
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When first published in 1970, Stations of the Lost won the C. Wright Mills Award for Best Book in the Area of Social Problems. The study considers the Skid Row alcoholic from two points of view, that of the alcoholic himself and that of the agents of social control who treat him. A major discovery of Wiseman's research was that Skid Row men spend only about one third of the year on Skid Row. The rest of the time is spent "making the loop"--going from Skid Row to city jail, to county jail, to the state mental hospital, to the missions, and back to Skid Row. While these facilities are designed to handle or rehabilitate Skid Row men, they are actually used by these men as a means of survival.
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Very Good. 6x9" large VERY GOOD CONDITION PAPERBACK; WHITE SPINE & COVER TITLES ON DARK OLIVE GREEN PAPER COVERS..9 VARIOUS FACES COVER ARTWORK..; 346pg pages; revealing, indeed startling, account of the profoundly different way in which Skid Row alcoholics and agents of institutions view the situations in which they encounter each other. We note the standoff character of their relations, the wide difference between how each group views itself and how it is viewed by the other, and the hollow ring that is given to the acts of each toward the other. To expect genuine corrective or therapeutic results from the encounters is to draw a fictitious veil over reality.
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