Policing Compassion di Joe Hermer edito da Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Policing Compassion

Begging, Law And Power In Public Spaces

EAN:

9781841132693

ISBN:

1841132691

Pagine:
204
Formato:
Hardback
Lingua:
Inglese
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Descrizione Policing Compassion

The encounter between those who beg in public spaces and those passing-by has become one of the most controversial issues in the politics and policing of urban life. This book examines how begging regulation underpinned by the social character of charity, contract, money, and work plays a central role in organizing how we feel responsible for one another in late capitalist society. The book develops the concept of the gift encounter to understand begging as a profound social phenomenon that is intricately tied to the exercise of political power. Drawing on a range of eclectic empirical sources, Policing Compassion examines how criminal begging is governed through specialized police operations and diverted giving programs, as well as the way in which official and legitimate begging such as charity collections and performing in public spaces for donations is ordered as vital aspects of the gift encounter landscape which the public negotiates. It explores how the control of beggin

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