Professional Beggar Problem

Professional Beggars Problem in China City Today -------- Adopting the PATH model

By: Yuyi Weng (Regina) I6044354 Xiaojun Liu (Christie) I6057147

Social Psychology and Interaction Experiment Code: EBC4203
Content

Introduction------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3

PATH: Problem ------------------------------------------------------------------------------4

PATH: Analyses -----------------------------------------------------------------------------8

PATH: Test -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------12

PATH: Help ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------15

Reference ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------17

Introduction
Police in Shanghai published a list of beggars who have been caught most often on metro trains over the past four years on 21 August 2012, sparking debates about the problem of “professional” beggars. The scorekeeper, who has been caught 308 times, is 22-year-old young man from Anhui province in perfect health, following by an 88-year-old woman with a record of 292 times[1].
Of the various problems which our country faces today, the problem of begging is one of the most acute ones. Every one of us has seen numerous kinds of beggars. Some are blind, lame or crippled, and so take to begging. Child and orphan beggars also are very common. However, others, who are physically sound before they join the begging “career” but undertake is as their profession, for it enables them to earn their living easily.
The causes of begging are many, and they are very similar between inland China beggars and those in other