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Analysis at BBC.co. UK now here's something that's not strictly

an episode of analysis but something I think you'll find very very interesting and

here's some questions should you give to beggars? How can you tell if someone's a fake or is going to spend your money on drugs? Mark Johnson explores our complex relationship with people who ask for money on the streets in the truth

about Britain's beggars.

So these streets here, they're all like the cut-throughs from Oxford Circus.

So like if I was shoplifting, like these alleys here are the ones that you use to literally cut straight

across to another part of the city. So you'd never like go shoplifting and walk down

Oxford Street because all the plane clothes are all there. So I know all of the streets here quite well.

My name's Mark Johnson.

I run a charity called User Voice that advocates for offenders.

But more than a decade ago, my life was very different.

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