Criminal victimisation of the homeless: an investigation of Big Issue vendors in Leeds
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Introduction Obtaining an accurate picture of the extent of homelessness in Britain is challenging due to the transient and hidden nature of this population, the lack of an accepted definition of the term ‘homeless’, and because official statistics only include individuals formally acknowledged as homeless by their local authority (Widdowfield, 1999). Unofficial homelessness counts are also considered unreliable (Baron & Hartnagel, 1998; Burrows et al., 1997). The lack of data on the extent of homelessness is matched by a paucity of data on crimes committed against the homeless.
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