Joe Hermer is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto Scarborough.

• Introduction I. Gift Crimes II. Counterfeit Coin III. Outline of Chapters 1. The Problem of the Tender-Hearted Public I. Mendicity and Mendacity in the Metropolis II. The Humanity of the Population III. A Man of the Crowd 2. The Genesis of Gift-Crime Regulation: Winchester’s ‘Make It Count’ I. An ExperimentII. A Lot Better than Nothing? 3. One Remove from Beggary: Flag-Day Collectors, Buskers and Big Issue Vendors I. Flag-Day Collectors II. Buskers III. The Big Issue Vendor 4. The Vagrancy Act 1824, 1976–2000I. The EVA ChallengeII. ‘Homeless Encounter’ Policing: Charing Cross and Manchester Homeless Units III. The ‘Forlorn Family’ Look: Women Begging with Children in the London Underground 5. Kindness Kills: Begging, Drugs and Death I. The Migration of Diverted Giving II. Kindness, Drugs and Death III. Idle and Disorderly: The Resuscitation of Vagrancy Law 6. The Legal Beggar in Scotland I. ‘The Biggest Urinal in the United Kingdom’ II. Drafting a Begging By-law III. Diverted Giving: A Social Welfare Measure? 7. The Calling of a BeggarI. Truth in Gift -Crime Prevention II. Criminal Justice Outcomes III. The Folly of ‘Persistence’ IV. Closing Observations

Joe Hermer is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto Scarborough.

• Introduction I. Gift Crimes II. Counterfeit Coin III. Outline of Chapters 1. The Problem of the Tender-Hearted Public I. Mendicity and Mendacity in the Metropolis II. The Humanity of the Population III. A Man of the Crowd 2. The Genesis of Gift-Crime Regulation: Winchester’s ‘Make It Count’ I. An ExperimentII. A Lot Better than Nothing? 3. One Remove from Beggary: Flag-Day Collectors, Buskers and Big Issue Vendors I. Flag-Day Collectors II. Buskers III. The Big Issue Vendor 4. The Vagrancy Act 1824, 1976–2000I. The EVA ChallengeII. ‘Homeless Encounter’ Policing: Charing Cross and Manchester Homeless Units III. The ‘Forlorn Family’ Look: Women Begging with Children in the London Underground 5. Kindness Kills: Begging, Drugs and Death I. The Migration of Diverted Giving II. Kindness, Drugs and Death III. Idle and Disorderly: The Resuscitation of Vagrancy Law 6. The Legal Beggar in Scotland I. ‘The Biggest Urinal in the United Kingdom’ II. Drafting a Begging By-law III. Diverted Giving: A Social Welfare Measure? 7. The Calling of a BeggarI. Truth in Gift -Crime Prevention II. Criminal Justice Outcomes III. The Folly of ‘Persistence’ IV. Closing Observations

Joe Hermer is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto Scarborough.

• Introduction I. Gift Crimes II. Counterfeit Coin III. Outline of Chapters 1. The Problem of the Tender-Hearted Public I. Mendicity and Mendacity in the Metropolis II. The Humanity of the Population III. A Man of the Crowd 2. The Genesis of Gift-Crime Regulation: Winchester’s ‘Make It Count’ I. An ExperimentII. A Lot Better than Nothing? 3. One Remove from Beggary: Flag-Day Collectors, Buskers and Big Issue Vendors I. Flag-Day Collectors II. Buskers III. The Big Issue Vendor 4. The Vagrancy Act 1824, 1976–2000I. The EVA ChallengeII. ‘Homeless Encounter’ Policing: Charing Cross and Manchester Homeless Units III. The ‘Forlorn Family’ Look: Women Begging with Children in the London Underground 5. Kindness Kills: Begging, Drugs and Death I. The Migration of Diverted Giving II. Kindness, Drugs and Death III. Idle and Disorderly: The Resuscitation of Vagrancy Law 6. The Legal Beggar in Scotland I. ‘The Biggest Urinal in the United Kingdom’ II. Drafting a Begging By-law III. Diverted Giving: A Social Welfare Measure? 7. The Calling of a BeggarI. Truth in Gift -Crime Prevention II. Criminal Justice Outcomes III. The Folly of ‘Persistence’ IV. Closing Observations