The two cities differ significantly in their approaches to handling homeless youth, with Toronto providing a more fully developed safety net for them and Vancouver relying to a greater extent on a crime-control model. Although law enforcement plays an important role in both cities, Vancouver youth, without the support services and shelters of Torontos social welfare model, experience greater exposure to the traumas of street life and to criminal opportunities. --Mean Streets: Youth Crime and Homelessness (1998), p. vii
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