NOT listed as a criminal offense associated with the homeless?

NOT listed as a criminal offense associated with the homeless?

• A. Trespassing
• B. Loitering
• C. Public defecation
• D. Begging

Answer: (B)

Loitering is not tied to homelessness in a way that the other offenses commonly are. Trespassing, public defecation, and begging are actions that enforcement often associates with homeless individuals in many jurisdictions—entering or remaining on someone else’s property without permission, using public spaces in a health- or safety-impairing way, and soliciting in public. Loitering, on the other hand, is a broad offense about lingering in a place and can apply to anyone, not specifically to homelessness. Because it isn’t a behavior uniquely linked to being homeless, it isn’t typically listed as a homelessness-specific criminal offense.

Loitering is not tied to homelessness in a way that the other offenses commonly are. Trespassing, public defecation, and begging are actions that enforcement often associates with homeless individuals in many jurisdictions—entering or remaining on someone else’s property without permission, using public spaces in a health- or safety-impairing way, and soliciting in public. Loitering, on the other hand, is a broad offense about lingering in a place and can apply to anyone, not specifically to homelessness. Because it isn’t a behavior uniquely linked to being homeless, it isn’t typically listed as a homelessness-specific criminal offense.