In this Book
- The Word On The Street: Homeless Men In Las Vegas
- Book
- 2005
- Published by: University of Nevada Press
Borchard’s account offers a graphic, disturbing, and profoundly moving picture of life on Las Vegas’s streets, depicting the strategies that homeless men employ in order to survive, from the search for a safe place to sleep at night to the challenges of finding food, maintaining personal hygiene, and finding an acceptable place to rest during a long day on the street.
That such misery and desperation exist in the midst of Las Vegas’s hedonistic tourist economy and booming urban development is a cruel irony, according to the author, and it threatens the city’s future as a prime tourist destination. The book will be of interest to social workers, sociologists, anthropologists, politicians, and all those concerned about changing the misery on the street.
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- p. vii
- Introduction
- pp. xiii-xxvi
- 5: Other Survival Strategies
- pp. 133-168
- 6: Crime, Violence, and the Police
- pp. 169-192
- 7: Recent Developments
- pp. 193-207
- 8: The Word on the Street
- pp. 208-214
- Appendix 1: How I Conducted Field Work
- pp. 215-218
- Appendix 2: List of Interviewees, 1995-1999
- pp. 219-220
- Bibliography
- pp. 225-232