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| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Urban Studies |
| Publication status | Accepted/In press - 10 Dec 2019 |
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Rebalancing the Rhetoric: A Normative Analysis of Enforcement in Street Homelessness Policy. / Johnsen, Sarah; Watts, Beth; Fitzpatrick, Suzanne.
In: Urban Studies, 10.12.2019.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
TY - JOUR
T1 - Rebalancing the Rhetoric: A Normative Analysis of Enforcement in Street Homelessness Policy
AU - Johnsen, Sarah
AU - Watts, Beth
AU - Fitzpatrick, Suzanne
PY - 2019/12/10
Y1 - 2019/12/10
N2 - Street homelessness policies often provoke great intensity of feeling, especially when they include elements of force. This paper considers the moral case stakeholders present for and against enforcement in street homelessness policies via a series of philosophically-informed normative ‘lenses’, including paternalist, utilitarian, rights-based, contractualist, mutualist, and social justice perspectives. Drawing on in-depth qualitative research in six UK cities, it highlights the disparity between the condemnatory portrayals of enforcement dominant in academic and media discourses, and the more complex and/or ambivalent views held by practitioners and homeless people ‘on the ground’. It concludes that an analytical framework that pays systematic attention to this span of normative lenses can facilitate more constructive, even if still ‘difficult’, conversations about policy interventions in this exceptionally sensitive area.
AB - Street homelessness policies often provoke great intensity of feeling, especially when they include elements of force. This paper considers the moral case stakeholders present for and against enforcement in street homelessness policies via a series of philosophically-informed normative ‘lenses’, including paternalist, utilitarian, rights-based, contractualist, mutualist, and social justice perspectives. Drawing on in-depth qualitative research in six UK cities, it highlights the disparity between the condemnatory portrayals of enforcement dominant in academic and media discourses, and the more complex and/or ambivalent views held by practitioners and homeless people ‘on the ground’. It concludes that an analytical framework that pays systematic attention to this span of normative lenses can facilitate more constructive, even if still ‘difficult’, conversations about policy interventions in this exceptionally sensitive area.
M3 - Article
JO - Urban Studies
JF - Urban Studies
SN - 0042-0980
ER -