Invisible victims : homelessness and the growing security gap / Laura Huey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huey, Laura.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homeless persons--Social conditions.

Homeless persons.

Homeless persons--Crimes against.

Human security.

Police.

Physical Description:

174 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2012]

Summary:

Homeless people are invisible victims, with rates of criminal victimization at a frequency that would not be tolerated amongst the wider population, argues Huey (sociology, U. of Western Ontario), who delineates the security gap that homeless citizens of contemporary liberal democracies face and considers the implications for the stratified nature of citizenship and civil rights. Building her analysis upon fieldwork conducted amongst homeless people in major Canadian cities, as well as Edinburgh, Scotland, and San Francisco in the US, she considers homeless access to state-based and private security and, finding those resources to be unevenly distributed to the detriment of homeless populations, explores individually- and communally-based survival strategies of homeless people. She then explores the notion of unevenly distributed security as it relates to the question of lesser-status citizenship and considers ways in which security can be redistributed. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

1 Security and Citizenship 10

2 Homelessness and Criminal Victimization 26

3 State-Based Security 47

4 Self-Protection Strategies 69

5 Security through Others 88

6 Security and the Homeless Citizen 107

7 Equalizing Security 126.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [157]-169) and index.

ISBN:

9781442643284

1442643285

9781442611764

1442611766

OCLC:

775060718