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Tackling Homelessness in Los Angeles' Skid Row: The Role of Policing Strategies and the Spatial Deconcentration of Homelessness
Criminology and Public Policy (2010)
  • Dennis P Culhane, University of Pennsylvania
Abstract

While recent research suggests that policing interventions can reduce crime through the spatial deconcentration of street homelessness in Skid Row, such efforts will not succeed on a sustained basis. The city and county need a more comprehensive plan that includes targeted housing development for people who are chronically homeless, along with the spatial deconcentration and repurposing of existing homeless programs.

Keywords
  • homelessness,
  • skid row,
  • crime
Publication Date
Fall 2010
Citation Information
Dennis P Culhane. "Tackling Homelessness in Los Angeles' Skid Row: The Role of Policing Strategies and the Spatial Deconcentration of Homelessness" Criminology and Public Policy Vol. 9 Iss. 4 (2010)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/dennis_culhane/98/