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criminal activity and policing  

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  • Society historically has associated criminal activity with homelessness. As early as the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, observers such as Jack London and Nels Anderson provided vivid accounts of the lawlessness of hoboes, tramps, and bums. [Source: Encyclopedia of Homelessness; Criminal Activity and Policing]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-DK83T8TC-8

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