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Harbor Light: Organization On Skid Row Today, Alison Evelyn Woodward
Harbor Light: Organization On Skid Row Today, Alison Evelyn Woodward
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The homeless man has always been a visible portion of America's urban life, and a most intriguing portion. My own interest in the homeless began through historical research done on the rise of the American city and the place of the hobo in American life. Through urban sociology I developed additional concerns about the place of the skid row community in the life of the central business districts of cities.
The place of the homeless man raises questions of both deviancy and social control. The attempts of society to rehabilitate the homeless and the special interaction of society at large …