SuitabookHomelessness and street crime
Pete Schauer
- Reading
- Read a section at a time, pausing to compare each contributor’s claim and reasoning. Check in together after material on abuse, mental illness or imprisonment.
- Themes
- Homelessness and crime: Contributors consider whether homelessness leads to crime, whether people without homes are more likely to offend, and whether they are also victims of crime. The book sets out competing positions; the overall judgement it reaches is not established.
- Who should help?: The collection asks whether helping people without homes is a shared responsibility, and includes arguments for and against government-funded shelter. Several positions are represented; which position, if any, the book favours is not established.
- Possible links and causes: The contents raise possible connections among youth homelessness, abuse, mental illness, poverty, crime and the risk of homelessness after prison. The topics are raised, but how the book explains or qualifies these relationships is unclear.
- Worth knowing
- Topics include youth homelessness, abuse and violence, untreated mental illness, poverty, crime and imprisonment. These may prompt questions or strong reactions; the tone and detail are unclear.