Canadian Policing Research Catalogue

Access to justice as a component of citizenship : reconsidering policing services for Canada’s homeless / Laura Huey, Marianne Quirouette.

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Canadian Policing Research

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Alternate Title

Reconsidering policing services for Canada’s homeless

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Description

1 online resource (68 pages)

Note

"9-1-2009"--Cover.
"This technical report was produced as a result of a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, under their Homelessness and Diversity Initiatives program."--page 2.
Authors affiliated with: University of Western Ontario, University of Toronto.

Summary

"Due to their vulnerability on the streets, it has been frequently reported that the homeless experience high rates of harassment and criminal victimization. And yet, reports of such victimization are rarely made to the police. Failure to report crime has often been conceptualized as a problem for law enforcement, policy makers and social scientists. It is conceptualized that the failure to notify authorities as to the experience of criminal victimization by homeless men, women and youth as a problem directly linked to their status as ‘lesser citizens’, individuals and groups who are more often viewed as the criminal element to be protected from, than as citizens who need the protection of the state and its mechanisms of justice. What is explored within the present study is a possible avenue for reconstituting marginalized crime victims as citizens equally worthy of access to justice."--Includes text from page 4.

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Contents

1. The study -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Methodology -- 2. Take control -- 2.1. Background -- 2.2. Operation -- 3. Toronto -- 3.1. Criminal victimization of Toronto’s homeless -- 3.2. Reporting victimization -- 3.3. Potential benefits of Remote Reporting -- 3.4. Potential limits of Remote Reporting -- 3.5. Levels of support for Remote Reporting -- 4. Vancouver -- 4.1. Criminal victimization of Vancouver’s homeless -- 4.2. Reporting victimization -- 4.3. Potential benefits of Remote Reporting -- 4.4. Potential limits of Remote Reporting -- 4.5. Levels of support for Remote Reporting -- 5. Recommendations -- 5.1. Proposed structure -- 5.2. Further recommendations.

Series

Sociology publications ; paper 10.

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