SOC 2070 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Toronto Police Services Board, Toronto Police Service, Aggressive Panhandling
Document Summary
Tickets and more tickets: a case study of the enforcement of the ontario. Legal responses to panhandling, squeegee cleaning and other forms of anti social behaviours associated with homelessness have grown considerably in many cites in the. United states as well and in the uk over the past 2 decades. In canada, several municipalities have recently enacted bylaws to curb activities such as begging/panhandling, squeegee cleaning, loitering, and sleeping in parks. Ontario and british columbia have taken measures on step further by invoking provincial statutes to control these sorts of behaviours. These laws are necessary because of the perceived public safety risk caused by growth in urban incivility. The literature on police profiling suggests that with or without explicit approval, it is not unusual for police to generalize and essentialize criminality across population groups, particularly visible minorities. We argue that the premise behind racial profiling can be extended to broader notions of social profiling.
