Empire of Scrounge: Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging

Acknowledgments

For ideas, information, and support, my sincere thanks to Marilyn McShane, Trey Williams, Meda Chesney-Lind, Bob Young, Bayless Camp, Dan Phillips, JeV Ross, Sara Chetin, Peter Leuner, Jimmy Silcox, Sara Lowry, Gene Lowry, Dick Hawkins, and Fran Hawkins. Thanks also to my colleagues in the Department of Sociology, Criminal Justice, and Anthropology, Texas Christian University, and especially to Carol Thompson, for creating an environment as engaging and humane as it is intellectually invigorating—and in a trailer yet. CertainlyEmpireofScroungeisbutoneofmany workspresentlycirculatingintheintellectual underground—ormaybeintellectualbackalley— thatisculturalcriminology,andsoIacknowledge withgreataVectionthosefriendsandcolleagues wholikewisehangoutthere:KeithHayward,Mike Presdee,JockYoung,WayneMorrison,Yvonne Jewkes,ChrisGreer,MarkHamm,KenTunnell, SteveLyng,StephanieKane,MichelleBrown,and manyothers.NewYorkUniversityPress,andits AlternativeCriminologyseries,embracethissame sortofscholarlyedge;mythankstoexecutive editorIleneKalishforherideasand understandingsinthatregard,andforhergracious supportofthebookandtheseries.Finally,my thankstoCécileVandeVoorde,whosephotographs illuminatethepagesofEmpireofScrounge. Emergingoutofthegreatphotodocumentaryand photojournalistictraditions,herimagesarenot simplyillustrative;theyareeachintheirownright signiWcantmoments,decisivemoments,inthe empireofscrounge. ix Acknowledgments KILL THIS PAGE a b ...