Joe Hermer is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto at Scarborough. His forthcoming book Policing Compassion: Begging, Law and Power in Public Spaces (Hart) explores how poverty and street begging has been regulated in the UK over the last two decades. His email is [email protected]
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe modern return of Vagrancy LawThe crime of 'being suspicious' seems to be making a return as the state seems ever more keen to police the poor and...