Dissertations / Theses: 'Homeless persons and violence'

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Yin, Ruo Yi. "Crime against the homeless and the response of the criminal justice system." Thesis, University of Macau, 2018. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b3953491.

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Connon, Aileen F. "Living on the city margins : homelessness, violence and stratagems of survival in an Australian metropolis /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09armc752.pdf.

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Kissoon, Priya N. "Pathways to homelessness a case study of the housing careers of the homeless people in Toronto /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ56185.pdf.

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Kinzel, Dianne Marilyn. "Becoming and being homeless as described by homeless mothers with children /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7334.

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Gill, Chandeni Kaur. "Examining the estimated costs & patterns of homelessness within the Reno-Sparks/Washoe County Region." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2007. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1442847.

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McCormack, Dianne. "The meaning of health to homeless persons /." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59536.

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A qualitative study that utilized a convenience sample of 29 individuals was conducted to uncover the meaning of health as it is experienced by homeless persons. Analysis revealed that homeless persons have two distinct conceptions of health: the characteristics that describe health, and a comprehensive view of the totality of health expressed in different combinations of health dimensions. A total of ten characteristics that described the essence of health were identified. These characteristics included satisfying basic human needs, having no illness related complaints, doing the work of health, fulfilling a functional role, having a positive self-image and outlook, and being fit. The four distinct perceptions of health that were revealed are: physical dimensions of health exclusively, physical and mental/emotional dimensions of health considered separately, physical and mental/emotional dimensions of health coexistent, and health as a multidimensional process of well being. Respondents also indicated that acute life events associated with feelings of loss preceded their state of homelessness. Generally, the respondents in this study considered themselves healthy.

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Feldman, Leonard Carl. "Homelessness and the public sphere : the politics of displacement and the domestication of citizenship /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10721.

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Donley, Amy Melissa. "The perception of homeless people important factors in determining perceptions of the homeless as dangerous /." Orlando, Fla. : University of Central Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0002261.

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Lopez, Carolyn M. "Psychological adjustment of black and white homeless veterans and nonveterans on the MMPI-2 /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9728771.

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Neba, Denis Fuh. "The Sheltered Home Lived Experiences of the Homeless Persons." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3188.

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Homelessness has been a problem in the United States as early as the 1700s and kinship care networks provided emergency shelters and assistance to victims, neighbors, and family members. Previous studies on homelessness have focused primarily on the causes and effects of the phenomenon or on people who were not able to work due to mental or physical disabilities. The purpose of this transcendental phenomenological study was to explore and understand the lived experiences of 24-55 year old homeless individuals who are able to work but who used homeless shelters in Charlotte, North Carolina, thus helping fill a gap in the literature. The theoretical foundation of the study was functionalism. Snowball sampling was used to find five participants and data were collected using semi-structured interviews based on Rubin and Rubin's approach to interviewing. Data were analyzed using Sada's multiple stage process based on Husserl. All participants experienced worry, boredom, hopelessness, and fear of other residents. Participants also unanimously said shelters cannot be considered long-term homes. Knowledge of these experiences could enable shelter providers to develop programs and services aimed at helping residents feel safer and able to stay for longer periods of time when needed as well as ways to reduce worry, boredom, and hopelessness. This would help promote positive social change by giving residents the ability to take more advantage of counseling and job training programs for those who want to find ways to get out of the condition of homelessness.

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Nannery, Rebecca S. "A process evaluation Delaware's Homeless Management Information System /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 107 p, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1338922141&sid=9&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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McNaughton, Carol Corinne. "Understanding transitions through homelessness in a risk society." Thesis, Connect to e-thesis, 2007. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/969/.

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Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Glasgow, 2007.
Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Faculty of Law, Business and Social Science, University of Glasgow, 2007. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.

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Neff, Sarah Grace. "Homeless at home the communication effects of the 'One Homeless Night' program on participants' attitudes and perceptions of homelessness in Canada /." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2007. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.

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Garde, Maria Salomé. "Mentally ill homeless and companion pets." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2186.

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The present study assessed the relationship between mentally ill homeless and their companion pets and questioned if the pets acted as a barrier for them to receive shelter and other services. The study also sought to find if pets acted as a communication tool between this population and society. themselves because they are mentally vulnerable and victims of a mental disorder.

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Couldrey, Charlotte. "Violence within the lives of homeless people." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2010. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/174287/.

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Narrative Literature Review Experience of victimisation and violence is prevalent within homeless people’s lives, and frequently begins in childhood through the experience of childhood abuse and trauma. The impact of childhood abuse and trauma has been associated directly and indirectly as a pathway into homelessness. Furthermore the psychological impact of childhood abuse and trauma has been linked to victimisation and perpetration of violence within homeless people. Victimisation and perpetration of violence has been predominately researched on homeless adolescents and women, with homeless men significantly under researched. Victimisation and violence is associated with a number of similar factors including childhood abuse, re-victimisation, deviant peers, substance misuse and mental illness. Furthermore, research suggests homeless people frequently have a dual role as both victim and perpetrator. This review discusses these factors, the limitations of the current research, areas for further research and the clinical implications. Empirical Paper The current study was conducted to further explore the mechanisms surrounding childhood abuse and trauma and its association with aggression in homeless people. Emotion dysregulation has a growing body of research suggesting it has the unifying function to a number of maladaptive behaviours. Research suggests childhood aversive experiences are associated with developing emotion dysregulation difficulties and aggression. This study found that emotion dysregulation significantly mediated the relationship between childhood abuse and trauma, and aggression, within a sample of homeless people. The implications of the findings are discussed with reference to the need for psychological interventions for homeless people and highlights the importance of incorporating emotion regulation strategies within interventions for aggression.

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Spiassi, Ana Lúcia. "Violência como fator de vulnerabilidade para a saúde de mulheres usuárias de drogas do centro do município de São Paulo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/5/5137/tde-08092016-094640/.

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Com este trabalho buscamos descrever situações de violências sofridas e perpetradas por mulheres usuárias de substâncias psicoativas que se encontram em situação de rua na região central de São Paulo e identificar a percepção destas mulheres em relação à violência que sofrem. Utilizamos uma metodologia qualitativa de pesquisa baseada em entrevistas com um roteiro semiestruturado, organizadas através do Programa NVivo11-Starter e analisadas pelo conteúdo produzido. Os principais temas trazidos nestes encontros foram: infância, chegada na cena de uso de substância psicoativa da região central, vivência com outros atores do local (profissionais da saúde, forças de segurança, parceiros sexuais e afetivos, agentes do tráfico de drogas), avaliação sobre a especificidade da presença feminina naquele ambiente e expectativas. Todas as mulheres que entrevistamos foram e/ou são expostas à violência de parceiro íntimo, das forças policiais, da segurança do tráfico, dos homens usuários de drogas que coexistem na cena aberta de uso na região da Luz e não acessam serviços e ferramentas de proteção disponíveis contra violência de gênero disponíveis na cidade
This study sought to describe situations of violence suffered and perpetrated by homeless women users of psychoactive substances in downtown area of São Paulo and identify the perception of these women in relation to violence suffering. For this purpose used a qualitative research methodology based on interviews with a semi-structured guide, organized by NVivo11-Starter program and analyzed the content of reasoning produced. The main themes brought these meetings were childhood arrival in drug use scene, experience with other local actors (health professionals, security forces, sexual and affective partners, drug trafficking agents), evaluation of the specificity female\'s presence in the social environment and their expectations. All the women we interviewed were and / or are a victim of intimate partner violence, police, traffic safety, drug users men who coexist in the drugs open site of Luz district and do not access services and security tools available against gender violence in the city. The wealth of the stories brought by the women, with the challenges they face and the impact they may have on the health care offered to this women\'s group of women, indicate the need to analyze important aspects this study from a research base that is statistically 5 relevant to extend the knowledge and the ability to act for the improvement of the care offered

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Millspaugh, Gary F. "Use of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act by two small cities." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 1991. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.

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Robinson, Miranda Dawn. "Do the homeless choose to remain homeless?" CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1366.

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Ortiz, Valdez Miguel Alberto. "Integrating faith into social services for homeless immigrants." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Henien, Hany Attia Fam. "Homelessness as perceived by the homeless." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1089.

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Marr, Matthew David. "Better must come exiting homelessness in two global cities, Los Angeles and Tokyo /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1428859811&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Hurlburt, Michael S. "An empirical framework for the evaluation of mental health care strategies targeted to community integration of severely mentally ill homeless individuals /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC IP addresses, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9722820.

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Fallick, Arthur Laurence. "Homelessness and the homeless in Canada : a geographic perspective." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28667.

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In 1981, the General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1987 as the International Year of Shelter for the Homeless (IYSH), to raise the consciousness of the world to the estimated 100 million people who have no shelter, and to the 1 billion who lack a secure, permanent home which they can afford. This dissertation contributes to the goals and objectives of the IYSH, and introduces conceptual and practical considerations which are pertinent to a geographic examination of homelessness in Canada. Field observations from across the country are integrated with a critical appraisal of the international literature to demonstrate that the spatial distribution and diversity of the homeless are related to physical shelter problems and to a combination of individual, social and economic precipitants which produce homelessness at a variety of regional, community and household scales. Three broad categories among the homeless in Canada are identified: those who are inadequately housed; those who are economically disenfranchised, and those who are socially marginalised and service-dependent. Homelessness is shown to be linked to a wide range of human, social and economic problems, for individuals and families, for communities and for society as a whole. It is defined as the absence of a continuing or permanent home over which people have personal control, and which provides the essential needs of shelter, privacy and security at an affordable cost, together with ready access to social, economic, health and cultural public services. In various regions of the country the problems historically have been chronic; in others, they are spatially and temporally episodic. It is argued here that the problem constitutes a legitimate focus of academic inquiry which is of significance and relevance to geography. Case examples are presented to show: homelessness results from the reciprocal relations between individuals and social processes; these relations are manifest in identifiable spatial forms; these spatial arrangements in turn influence the composition of the homeless and the sources of homelessness. Geographic considerations contribute to an understanding of homelessness in Canada through an analysis of how individual action, social processes and spatial relations are linked to the genesis and persistence of homelessness. By showing how certain events and conditions precipitate and exacerbate homeless-related problems, evidence is presented that the problems in Canada cannot be reduced to single-factor causal explanations. Despite regional and temporal variations, and the establishment of a social welfare safety net, poverty, unemployment and inadequate social assistance benefits have historically influenced the form of homelessness. The effects of deinstitutionalisation and revitalisation have significantly altered the structure of the inner city and the vital role which these areas play in providing a supportive community for the socially marginalised homeless. As living conditions have improved, housing problems of the homeless have shifted to concerns over affordability and the lack of low-cost accommodation. Two significant conclusions emerge: homelessness is not a problem OF cities; but IS amenable to public policy intervention, of which housing is a vital but not exclusive part of creating a place to call home. Given the classification of the homeless and the recognition that homelessness is manifest at varying geographic scales, differential policies, programmes and housing alternatives are required to assist the homeless and reduce homelessness.
Arts, Faculty of
Geography, Department of
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Demirel, Sinan S. ""We're not activists" : grassroots organizing among Seattle's homeless population /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8848.

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Atkinson, Joellen Marie. "A program evaluation of a structured homeless shelter." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1255.

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This study compared homeless shelters, one was a structured homeless shelter and the other a non-structured homeless shelter, evaluating the residents' level of social functioning and level of self-sufficiency at both shelters. A structured shelter may offer counseling, parenting classes, money management, nutrition classes, a 12-step program and support groups, and after school and summer programs for youths. Whereas a non-structured shelter is one that only offers a place to sleep and some food.

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Card, Amanda Nicole, and Heather Nicole Sylvester. "Service utilization among the mentally ill homeless." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3143.

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This study conducted in-depth interviews with 11 homeless or formerly homeless individuals at eh Central City Lutheran Mission. The focus of this research project is mental health service utilization among the homeless in San Bernardino. A wide array of services are available to the mentally ill homeless in this area, however services offered often do not meet the needs of this population.

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Lueck, Andrea. "An evaluation of the Stopping Cyclical Homelessness In Persons with AIDS program 2007-2008 /." Online version, 2008. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2008/2008luecka.pdf.

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Parks, Susan Carol. "A needs assessment of the homeless and the lack of affordable housing programs for the homeless." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3297.

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The purpose of this study was to interview the social workers that work with the homeless population within the Inland Empire. Explored were the social workers perceptions of and attitudes about the homeless population as well as hoping to understand the lack of housing for the homeless and to find out what can be done to provide housing for them.

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Bolton, Cathy J. H. Herbert James D. "Helping the homeless: program evaluation of Philadelphia?s supportive housing program /." Philadelphia, Pa. : Drexel University, 2005. http://dspace.library.drexel.edu/handle/1860/511.

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Hoolachan, Jennifer Elizabeth. "An ethnographic exploration of the substance use of young people living in temporary homeless accommodation." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/24142.

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The subjects of ‘youth’, ‘substance use’ and ‘homelessness’ are interconnected, but only a relatively small number of studies have examined the relationships between all three components. Literature highlights how homeless substance users are constructed as ‘vulnerable’ – yet ‘deviant’. Furthermore, academics have examined how people manage the ascribed identities of ‘substance user’ and ‘homeless’ as well as that of ‘youth’. According to sociologists, people’s self-identities and actions develop as a consequence of interactions with their socio-spatial worlds. Therefore, it is useful to contextualise the act of substance use within these complex interactions. This thesis explores the meanings and contexts of young, homeless people’s substance use. Data were obtained through an ethnographic study conducted in a homeless hostel over a seven month period in 2013 in which twenty-two young people (aged 16-21) and twenty-seven staff members participated. The majority of data were derived from participant-observation encompassing 200-250 informal interactions with the young people and 100-120 interactions with staff along with observations of people’s actions and descriptions of events and appearances. The field-notes were supplemented by four semi-structured interviews and a focus group, involving a total of eleven young people. Drawing on theories underpinned by symbolic interactionist and phenomenological philosophies, three overarching dimensions of the young people’s experiences were identified as important to their substance use and wider lives. First, the young people engaged in ‘place-making’ actions (including substance use) to personalise spaces within the tightly controlled environment of the hostel. Secondly, substance use was interwoven with the relationships that the young people held with their families, friends and the staff. The ‘pro-drug’ voices of their friends and relatives were arguably stronger than the ‘anti-drug’ voices of the staff. Thirdly, the categories of ‘youth’ and ‘substance user’ were recognised by the participants as pertaining to them, whereas the ‘homeless’ label was relatively meaningless. The thesis concludes that to understand people’s substance use experiences, it is important to consider the socio-spatial contexts within which they are located, particularly when these are temporary.

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Suzuki, Tsudoi. "Comparative analysis of depression in homeless populations." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2393.

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The purpose of this project was to find out whether or not there were specific factors that made homeless people depressed. Finding depression factors will help to establish strategies and programs that would prevent homeless people from being depressed. The current study tested the hypothesis that basic needs and education are needed to help in factoring depression.

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Leeman, Mark A. "From Good Works To A Good Job: An Exploration Of Poverty And Work In Appalachian Ohio." Ohio : Ohio University, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1194570212.

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Reinberg, Julie A. (Julie Ann). "Elder Abuse: Education for Persons with Experienced Violence." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1990. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332256/.

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The rationale for this study was based on the application of the cycle of domestic violence theory to elder abuse. It examined the effect of history of experienced childhood violence on tolerance, behavioral intentions, and past behaviors of elder abuse toward general and specific elderly targets. The effectiveness of educational interventions for altering tolerance and behavioral intentions of elder abuse was examined. Two hundred and twenty-five undergraduates were assessed for aging knowledge, general aging attitudes, aging anxiety, elder abuse attitudes, and elder abuse intentions and past behaviors. Participants were assigned to a High or Low Experienced Violence group and participated in an educational group or control group. Posttest and one-month followup measures were obtained. No differences were found at pretest between High and Low Violence. Level of Violence did not impact intervention efficacy. Elder abuse education altered attitudes, intentions, and behaviors of elder abuse at posttest significantly more than did aging education or control groups (p < .001), but these effects were no longer significant at followup. Elder abuse attitudes had higher relationships with elder abuse intentions and reported past behaviors than did global aging attitudes or aging anxiety (p < .05). General elderly targets yielded more tolerance, intentions, and reported past behaviors of elder abuse than did specific elderly targets (p < .001). Experienced childhood abuse was unrelated to elder abuse expression yielding no support for the role of cycle of violence in elder abuse. Specificity of target mediated elder abuse attitudes, intentions, and behaviors. Primary prevention interventions which aim to reduce tolerance and intentions of elder abuse should include specific information on elder abuse; aging education is ineffective for this goal.

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Nesset, Troy Lawren. "Re-Institute: realization of unrealized resources." Thesis, Montana State University, 2009. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2009/nesset/NessetT1209.pdf.

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There are preconceived notions that human beings and built environments have a defined life-span. Both the homeless population and the abandoned infrastructure of cities are seen as existent until their place in society has been tapered, suspended or given up on completely. Once the individual or building reaches a point of societal condemnation it is neglected and eventually forgotten, slipped into the archives of non-existence. What once was an element of a functioning whole becomes a void that is commonly overlooked. Many forgotten people within the homeless population and buildings within abandoned infrastructure have an immense amount of potential energy that may be utilized to further their existence as a function of society. At a human level the homeless person flows through the social construct with little more acknowledgement than a shrug of the shoulder and a minor donation. In the built environment resources sit stagnant amongst constantly advancing infrastructure. In both circumstances the subject is left to exist as a non-participating part of a society that does not acknowledge their presence and lacks the mutual interaction that makes the vagrant or abandoned infrastructure an integral part of the social system. The Re-Institute program identifies contributing factors of social exclusion at both human and infrastructural levels. These factors will be counteracted by reversing the primary concepts of social exclusion into a catalyst to solve the issue. The mechanisms used to combat the problems of social exclusion will exist in a sociological, environmental and programmatic realm within the Re-Institute project. Through the architectural and programmatic development of the program, these mechanisms will re-institute neglected resources back into a constructive part of society.

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Tanner, Alan Gordon. "Street outreach programs for homeless and underhoused people : a grounded theory study." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=78192.

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As extreme poverty and homelessness continue to increase and become more visible in urban centres throughout Canada, it is increasingly more important to develop and critique interventions within the field. This grounded theory study provides and overview of one type of intervention---street outreach programs. It is informed by interviews with front line street outreach workers in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. It includes an outline of the academic literature on homelessness and street outreach programs and stresses the importance of viewing this social phenomenon through a structural lens. It describes in detail the main aspects of street outreach work, as well as evaluates the greater the political significance of this type of work. Conclusions demonstrate the importance of establishing trusting relationships with clients and working from a structural approach that satisfy peoples immediate needs while addressing the root causes of extreme poverty and oppression.

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Limon, Lester Lloyd II. "Understanding the perceived influence of social capital by homeless persons in Newton, Kansas." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/18806.

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Master of Science
Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional & Community Planning
Stephanie Rolley
This is an exploratory study investigating: How those currently experiencing homelessness perceive the influence of bonding and bridging social capital on their future successful residential reintegration. It is an important consideration in understanding the emotional and intellectual circumstances of residents entering a rural shelter environment, and discovering what types of social capital residents need and have access to. This research used phenomonography to gain access to the thoughts and opinions of residents of the Harvey County Homeless Shelter, coupled with grounded theory to discover emergent themes in those transcripts. The study topic was explored through direct inquiry of people experiencing homelessness in Newton, Kansas. Through an interview process, five areas of inquiry were studied: demographics, residential history, social connections, community connections, and social connectedness and community belonging. Using grounded theory methodology, the responses were coded and the writing of rich memos determined and explored themes. Emergent themes; an analysis of their relevancy to the study topic; an examination of the areas the study topic satisfied; and, identification of areas where it failed to satisfy are topics of exploration concerning the findings. Community courtesy, individual personality, healthy relationships, and social connections over address were the four emergent themes to come from the five categories of inquiry. In general, resident’s perceptions of social capital were important to their future efforts toward residential reintegration, although in slightly different ways than the study topic assumed.

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Lee, Andrew Kim. "Making do in the city : the survival tactics of London's young homeless." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6d8f7b5f-ce3b-4435-a3f5-b3799b1ac042.

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Youth homelessness is a pressing problem in contemporary British urban politics. The emergence of youth homelessness, in the context of wider homelessness, has been conditioned by economic, political and social changes in British society. Young people have been particular casualties of these social changes. Whilst homelessness has been the consequence of larger structural changes, the character of youth homelessness has very much been determined by the homeless themselves. The relationship between human agency and structural constraint, and the implicit power relations therein are explored by recourse to Structurationist theory. In this context, a theoretically composite approach is posited drawing on livelihood analysis and Michel de Certeau's "Science of Singularity". Livelihood analysis is developed by recourse to Grounded theory to produce an ethnography of homeless survival tactics rooted in the experience of young homeless people living on the streets in London's West End. The emergent ethnography is subjected to the insights of Michel de Certeau, who provides a means for understanding the relationship between critical action and social constraint. Recognising the implicit social criticism of homeless life, this approach posits a regime of commodities, skills and sources (the resource regime) as a basis for homeless critical livelihood. This critical livelihood contextualised by structural constraint, and explored by creative endeavour, is used by the homeless to make their lives and to forge identity. This approach is implicitly spatial because the homeless draw on urban spaces to forge livelihood, and their trajectories in the city both contribute to social reproduction and are central to the criticisms they make. Correspondingly, homeless identity, forged through the processes of critical livelihood, is at times contradictory. Homeless identity emerges as one that is purposive and critical, whilst at the same time being dependent on the very circumstances of marginality for its substance and character.

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Willoughby, Kate. "The moderating influence of resilience on childhood trauma : towards an understanding in homeless persons." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2010. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/163083/.

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Resilience is offered as a theoretical framework from which the competent functioning of a small proportion of survivors of childhood trauma can be understood. Despite the likely deleterious impact of abuse and neglect some individuals continue to thrive and achieve positive outcomes. The literature investigating protective factors implicated in resilience to childhood trauma is reviewed. Studies indicate that certain individual and environmental protective factors provide encouraging experiences and promote positive adaptation. Although current literature needs to move to a more process orientated approach for investigating resilience, existing findings offer valuable insights for the direction of prevention and intervention programmes for at-risk populations. This focus on strengths rather than deficits paves the way for innovative approaches especially with disenfranchised groups who might otherwise be less receptive, for instance individuals marginalised from society such as homeless individuals. On this basis, the empirical study investigated the relationship between childhood trauma and maladaptive coping and the relative influence of resilience, in homeless individuals. A significant relationship between childhood physical abuse and maladaptive coping existed, which was moderated by high levels of resilience. It is postulated that resilience in the homeless population may have a greater protective effect against maladaptive coping as severity of childhood physical abuse decreases. Studies replicating these findings in this and other disenfranchised groups are essential in order to fully understand the role of resilience and potential benefit of promoting and enhancing resilience and coping in reducing tenancy breakdown and therefore chronic and repeated homelessness.

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Alexander, William Lee 1963. "Voluntary associations of and for the homeless in Tucson." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/277193.

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An overview is presented of anthropology's interest in voluntary association, from the classical influences and studies to sociological and anthropological work that illustrate recent trends from the last decade. Information is presented from the author's fieldwork with the Tucson Homeless Union and the Southern Arizona Coalition for the Homeless that describes the homeless situation in Tucson and the efforts of these groups, whose members share a dedication to improving conditions for socioeconomically marginal people through activist means of protest and civil disobedience. Marked by fluidity of membership and unique internal dynamics, these groups present a special case-study of voluntary associations as a means of urban adaptation through self-help and as a vehicle for social change. It is demonstrated how and examination of the values expressed by the existence and actions of these associations is useful in understanding the nature of society and the stability of the political system.

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Lyness, Drew. "Pathologising poverty the cultural camouflage of America's urban poor /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=2066589691&sid=5&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Gould, Thomas E. Herman Robert D. "Homelessness, families and structural effects." Diss., UMK access, 2006.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration and the School of Education. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2006.
"A dissertation in public affairs and administration and urban leadership and policy studies in education." Advisor: Robert D. Herman. Typescript. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed Jan. 29, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 93-107). Online version of the print edition.

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Thies, Ralf. "Ethnograph des dunklen Berlin : Hans Ostwald und die "Großstadt-Dokumente" (1904-1908) /." Köln [u.a.] : Böhlau, 2006. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=014907255&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.

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Prasad, Vandana. "A study to understand the barriers and facilitating factors for accessing health care amongst adult street dwellers in New Delhi, India." University of the Western Cape, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5387.

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Master of Public Health - MPH
Urban health policy has remained a neglected area in India. The homeless remain the most deprived, neglected and stigmatized group amongst the urban poor. While they suffer from a large burden of disease, there are a variety of reasons that prevent them from accessing the available health care services – particularly in the public health sector. Some interventions by concerned non-governmental organisations have attempted to circumvent the barriers to health care access faced by the homeless but these have not been well documented or assessed. This study seeks to establish both the barriers and facilitating factors for access to health care and health care seeking amongst adult street dwellers in an area of New Delhi which is known for a high concentration of homeless persons. Using a qualitative approach 18 adult street dwellers (both male and female) were individually interviewed – along with 6 key informants working in the public and non-governmental health sector. This was accompanied by a process of participant-observation. The results were analyzed by identifying recurrent themes associated with barriers and facilitating factors for access to health care by the homeless, following which a set of recommendations related to the homeless, have been developed so as to inform those working in the public health sector. In terms of ethics, informed consent was taken from each interviewee and they were explicitly given the option not to participate without adverse consequences to themselves. If any participant was found with acute health problems immediate assistance was facilitated. The study reveals a number of barriers faced by the homeless in attempting to access health care services. While minor ailments are taken care of by local private practitioners, they need to access public health care services for major problems. There they encounter many barriers due to the lack of money, delays and being shunted from place to place. Moreover, they are not able to get admission for reasons such as lack of address and the lack of an attendant. Facilitating factors include assistance for transportation, facilitation of admissions, arranging money for out of pocket expenditures on drugs and consumables, arranging blood and providing after-care. The role of social contacts in enabling access is also demonstrated through this study. The recommendations that emerge from the study are intended to assist in policy advocacy towards a comprehensive health care system for them, as well as assist health care providers to provide a better service for homeless people.

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Henson, Verna J. "From ideology to organization : a sociological analysis of two homeless shelters /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9842536.

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Weichsel, Rebecca Michelle. "Risk Factors for Adult Victimization among Florida's Homeless Women." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2005. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4347.

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Much of the existing research on violence against homeless women has concluded that homeless women are particularly vulnerable to violence and experience victimization at rates often exceeding the rates of housed women. Little research, however, has focused upon the specific risk factors that expose homeless women to physical assault, rape, and stalking. Utilizing a sample of 737 homeless women from the Florida cities of Orlando, Jacksonville, Tampa, and Miami, this study investigated the risk factors for experiencing adult personal victimization. The characteristics of homelessness, demographics, drug and alcohol use, subsistence activities, childhood victimization, mental health status, and criminal activities were examined as predictors of violence. The results indicate that over three-quarters of the sample had experienced violence, physical, sexual, or stalking, as adults. Consistent with prior research, childhood sexual abuse and time spent in jail or prison were significant predictors of violence. However, contrary to prior research, severe childhood physical abuse did not predict adult violence. Rather, the key childhood predictors of adult violence appear to center upon abuse that is primarily emotional in nature. Also contrary to prior research, the excessive use of alcohol or illicit drugs and engaging in risky subsistence activities did not predict violence. The results also imply that the women's experiences of violence may precipitate their episodes of homelessness, indicating that the violence is a cause of their homelessness. Violence against women continues to be a significant social problem particularly among especially vulnerable populations such as homeless women. Such violence deserves the attention of service providers such as healthcare workers, social services, and criminal justice systems.
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Sloss, Eric J. "Homeless Abjection and the Uncanny “Place” of the National Imagination." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500028/.

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This project examines the effects of the homeless body and the threat of homelessness on constructing a national imaginary that relies on the trope of locatability for recognition as a citizen-subject. The thesis argues that homelessness, the oft-figured specter of public space, functions as bodies that are “pushed out” as citizen-subjects due to their inability maintain both discursive and material location. I argue that figures of “home” rely on the ever-present threat of dislocation to maintain a privileged position as the location of the consuming citizen-subject. That is, the presence of the dislocated homeless body haunts the discursive and material construction of home and its inhabitants. Homeless then becomes the uncanny inverse of home, functioning as an abjection that reifies home “place” as an arbiter of recognition in a neoliberal national imaginary. The chapters proceed to examine what some consider homeless “homes,” focusing on the reduction of the homeless condition to a place of inhabitance, or the lack thereof. This attempt to locate the homeless body becomes a symptom of the desire for recognition as a placed body. The thesis ends on a note of political possibility, figuring the uncanny as a rupture that evacuates language of signification and opens up space for a form of recognition without an over-determined identity.

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Bong, Kui-fhui. "Housing provision : a study of housing problems of "cage man" /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B2236027X.

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Souza, William Azevedo. "A assistência social e o trabalho com as pessoas em situação de rua no CREAS : um campo de intercessão /." Assis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/131844.

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Orientador: Abílio Costa-Rosa
Banca: Sílvio José Benelli
Banca: Aldaiza Sposati
Resumo: Trata-se de uma exposição dos resultados de nossa práxis de intercessão-pesquisa no trabalho com pessoas em situação de rua, no Centro de Referência Especializado de Assistência Social (CREAS). Discutiremos o campo da assistência social sob o prisma de um trabalhador-intercessor-pesquisador que se utiliza dos seguintes referenciais: a psicanálise do campo de Freud e Lacan, o materialismo histórico, a análise institucional e a filosofia da diferença. Esses referenciais oferecem a possibilidade de analisarmos as práticas, os saberes e os discursos desse campo, bem como de intercedermos nele. Conceituaremos Assistência Social como uma instituição, retomando rapidamente a trajetória da Política Nacional da Assistência Social bem como o contexto que a originou, tecendo algumas considerações sobre esse processo. Em seguida, analisaremos a Assistência Social por meio de dois paradigmas, que consideraremos alternativos e contraditórios: paradigma caridoso filantrópico assistencialista (PCFA), que detém a hegemonia no campo da assistência social, e paradigma do sujeito de direitos (PSD), cujo horizonte de trabalho vai em direção dos interesses da população atendida e dos próprios trabalhadores da assistência social. Abordaremos também as bases do dispositivo intercessor: uma ferramenta de intercessão-pesquisa com a finalidade de ação na práxis das instituições públicas "prestadoras de serviços". Pautando-nos nesses elementos, relataremos a nossa práxis como um trabalhador-intercessor, ou melhor, analisaremos os atravessamentos, acontecimentos e atendimentos diários no trabalho com as pessoas em situação de rua em um município de grande porte, que está implantando uma unidade de Serviços Especializados: de Abordagem Social e Atendimento às Pessoas em Situação de Rua
Abstract: We will explain our praxis of Intercessão-Research on the work with homeless people at the Social Assistance Specialized Reference Center (CREAS). We will discuss the social assistance field under the worker-intercessor-researcher sight that uses the following references: Psychoanalysis on Freud and Lacan field, Historical Materialism, Institutional Analysis and the Philosophy of Difference. Those references enhable to analyse and to act in response to the practices, knowledges and discourses on this field. We will concept Social Assistance as an institution, and will go on a brief path through the Social Assistance National Policy and the context that gave origin to it, taking some considerations about this process. Following that, we will paradigmatic analyse Social Assistance as two paradigms, considered both alternative and contradictory: Charity Philanthropy Assistentialist Paradigm (PCFA), which holds hegemony on the Social Assistance fields, and the Subject of Rights Paradigm (PSD), this as a work horizon that goes on the direction of the assisted population's and the own Social Assistance worker's interests. Also will be explained the Intercessor Device's basis: an Intercessão-Research tool, intending to act in the "service's provider" public institution's praxis. Ruled on those elements, our praxis as a worker-intercessor will be reported, or better saying, the crossings, events and daily attendances with the homeless people; in a large city which is in the implantation process of the specialized services: social approach and attendance to the homeless people
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Runquist, Jennifer Jo. "Spirituality, self-transcendence, fatigue, and health status as correlates of well-being in sheltered homeless persons." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278776.

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The relationships surrounding well-being, spiritual perspective, self-transcendence, health status, and fatigue in homeless persons have not been studied from a nursing perspective. This original descriptive study explored relationships among well-being, spiritual perspective, self-transcendence, health status, and fatigue in a sample of 61 homeless men and women in two shelters. A conceptual model based upon Rogers' Science of Unitary Human Beings and Reed's Theory of Self-Transcendence was constructed and tested. Multiple significant correlations were calculated between the study variables indicating that health status and spiritually-related variables correlate positively with well-being. Additionally, sell-transcendence and health status were significant predictors of well-being in this sample. Significant differences were also found between the long-term and short-term housed participants on spiritual perspective, self-transcendence and well-being. Clinical implications and research recommendations are provided.

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Frankenberger, John J. (John Joseph). "Effect of Modern Training Techniques on Economically-Disadvantaged Homeless People." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1990. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330829/.

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This study examined a segment of the homeless population who participated in a jobs training program. The research investigated the effect of socioeconomic status, self-esteem, and locus of control on the clients in getting and keeping jobs. The training was a comprehensive 36-day treatment dealing with three major areas: (a) how to get a job, (b) how to keep a job, and (c) how to develop life-coping skills. A quasi-experimental research design was used for testing by t-tests, two-by-two repeated-measured anova, chi-square tests, and regression analysis. The findings showed that high socioeconomic status clients demonstrated higher self-esteem and internal locus of control than low socioeconomic status clients at the start of the treatment. The treatment had a significant effect on both groups with an increase in self-esteem and internal locus of control and a decrease in both external locus of control dimensions of powerful others and chance. The treatment had a greater effect on the low socioeconomic status clients than on the high socioeconomic status clients on increases in self-esteem and locus of control—internal. Both groups were successful in finding jobs, with 79% for high socioeconomic status clients and 74% for low socioeconomic status clients having jobs at the end of the treatment. Both high self-esteem and high socioeconomic status had a positive effect on the length of time over a sixmonth period following treatment that clients were able to maintain employment (job retention). This study must be considered largely as exploratory in its findings. Restrictions in the selection process prevented the results from being generalized. It does, however, provide a very important profile of a segment of the homeless population that can be useful in the research for new and improved methods of dealing with the problems of the homeless unemployed.

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