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100	1		_aCLOKE, Paul _918346
245	1	0	_aMaking the homeless count? Enumerating rough sleepers and the distortion of homelessness
260			_c2001
520	3		_aThis article traces the power of numbers in discourses relating to homelessness in Britain. It argues that enumeration has played a formative role in the recording of homelessness as a "problem", and in the public policy response to homelessness in specific locations. In particular, the use of rough sleeper counts as popular defining representations of the problem of, and response to, homelessness is analysed in terms of theri wider pivotal significance in political and policy discourses relating to homeless people. The article concludes that how rough soeeper counts are undertaken has clear distorting consequences for the identification and understanding of to what extent, where, and among whom homelessness represents a pressing social issue. Discursive valorisation of enumeration needs to be interconnected critically with other more qualitative forms of knowledge drawing on the experience of housing officers, local agency workers and others dealing with localised homelessness on a day-to-day basis
700	1		_aMILBOURNE, Paul _918347
700	1		_aWIDDOWFIELD, Rebekah _918348
773	0	8	_tPolicyPolitics _g29, 3, p. 259-279 _d, 2001 _w
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998			_a20021209 _bCassio _cCassio
998			_a20060523 _b1152^b _cQuiteria
999			_aConvertido do Formato PHL _bPHL2MARC21 1.1 _c9223 _d9223
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