By Lucy Kenningham Instead of criminalising rough sleeping, the government should expand a policy that’s proven to work: giving people homes, argues Lucy Kenningham Buried inside the government’s Criminal Justice Bill are measures that would make rough sleeping an offence worthy of a £2,500 fine or imprisonment. The bill has gone through the first and second readings of parliament, and is now at the committee stage. It has received heavy criticism, unsurprisingly from groups like Crisis. The charity’s campaigns manager Rosie Perkins says the legislation “amounts to the criminalisation of rough…