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Author:   Hartley Dean
Publisher:   Policy Press
Imprint:   Policy Press
ISBN:  

9781847425041

ISBN 10:   1847425046
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   16 September 1999
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Electronic book text
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents: Part One: Begging in context: Begging and the contradictions of citizenship ~ Hartley Dean and Keir Gale; Why begging offends: historical perspectives and continuities ~ Angus Erskine and Ian McIntosh; Begging: the global context and international comparisons ~ Bill Jordan; Excluded youth and the growth of begging ~ Bob Coles and Gary Craig; Part Two: Researching begging: Easy pickings or hard profession? Begging as an economic activity ~ Hartley Dean and Margaret Melrose; Begging in time and space: 'shadow work' and the rural context ~ Julia Wardhaugh and Jane Jones; The face that begs: street begging scenes and selves' identity work ~ Andrew Travers; Word from the street: the perils and pains of researching begging ~ ~ Margaret Melrose; Part Three: Perceptions and control of begging: Public attitudes to begging: theory in search of data ~ Michael Adler; I feel rotten. I do, I feel rotten : exploring the begging encounter ~ Ian McIntosh and Angus Erskine; Policing compassion: 'diverted giving' on the Winchester High Street ~ Joe Hermer; Tolerance or intolerance? The policing of begging in the urban context ~ Roger Hopkins Burke.

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The insights provided by the research reported here are both interesting and important and they that require us to pause and think about the broader context within which begging must be understood and responded to may be no bad thing . Local Government studies vol. 27, no. 2, summer 2001 ... an important and thought-provoking contribution to an area of social concern which has been largely neglected by researchers until now.

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Hartley Dean is Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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