Down and Out in Winnipeg and Toronto: the Ethics of Legislating Against Panhandling
Description:
Beginning in the 1980s, and continuing into the 1990s, the centre of many Canadian cities experienced a dramatic increase in the number of down-and-out individuals living on the street: bag-ladies sitting in doorways or pushing their worldly goods in supermarket carts, homeless men and women huddled over heating grates during the winter, scruffy teenagers with their hands outstretched for a donation, 'squeegee kids' wiping auto windshields without invitation, in the expectation of payment from embarrassed motorists, beggars outside hotels and shopping malls. (abstract from the document)
Type of Resource:
Book
Publication Date:
1998
Location:
Toronto