Citizens Without Shelter
Subtitle: Homelessness, Democracy, And Political Exclusion
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: February 9, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780801472909
Subjects: Homelessness; Public Policy - General; Political Science; Sociology; Politics/International Relations; USA; Holocaust; Poverty; Political; History & Theory - General
First sentence: Defenders of punitive policies such as panhandling restrictions, public-sleeping and sidewalk-sitting bans, and police sweeps of homeless encampments tend to justify these policies with reference to a vision of the homeless "profane outlaws," disorderly and unconstrained subjects who require the discipline of the laws.