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Book Synopsis Homelessness and Street Crime by : Pete Schauer
Download or read book Homelessness and Street Crime written by Pete Schauer and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of thousands of Americans are without a home, sleeping on streets or in temporary shelters. Nearly one-fifth of homeless Americans suffer from an untreated mental illness. Due in part to reductions in state and city budgets, many who need assistance are left to live on the street. One natural byproduct of a life on the street is criminal behavior, as adaptation to illegal acts becomes a matter of survival. Could ending homelessness reduce crime? What are ways in which that could be achieved, and whose responsibility is it? Are the homeless being unfairly blamed for street crime? This volume offers a close examination of the issue from a variety of viewpoints.
Download or read book Mean Streets written by John Hagan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-28 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About youth crime and homelessness in Canada.
Download or read book Hard Lives, Mean Streets written by and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2010-07-31 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although homelessness is a serious social problem in the United States, there is little direct information about the actual experiences of violence, past and current, among homeless people. This volume, based on the Florida Four-City Study, brings together interview material from 737 women, including structured quantitative interviews as well as in-depth qualitative interviews. The authors investigate how many homeless women have experienced violence in their lives, either as children or as adults, and then examine factors associated with experiences of violence, the consequences of violence, and types of interactions of homeless people with the justice system. The volume concludes with pragmatic and compassionate policy recommendations.
Book Synopsis Sub City: Young People, Homelessness and Crime by : Julia Wardhaugh
Download or read book Sub City: Young People, Homelessness and Crime written by Julia Wardhaugh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youth homelessness increased rapidly during the late 1980s and early 1990s, at a time when street homelessness in particular became increasingly associated in the popular mind with dangerousness and criminality. This book analyzes the construction of homelessness as a social and legal 'problem' and documents young people’s own experiences of homelessness, crime and danger. Drawing on the authors’ own field work in a range of urban and rural locations, the book addresses themes of home and homelessness, of exclusion and marginality and of risk and urban incivilities.
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :246 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (318 download)
Book Synopsis Crimes Against America's Homeless by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs
Download or read book Crimes Against America's Homeless written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Homelessness, Crime, and the Police by : Theron Macay Quist
Download or read book Homelessness, Crime, and the Police written by Theron Macay Quist and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Street Crime in America by : Jeffrey Ian Ross
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Street Crime in America written by Jeffrey Ian Ross and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone living or working in a city has feared or experienced street crime at one time or another; whether it be a mugging, purse snatching, or a more violent crime. In the U.S., street crime has recently hovered near historic lows; hence, the declaration of certain analysts that street life in America has never been safer. But is it really? Street crime has changed over past decades, especially with the advent of surveillance cameras in public places—the territory of the street criminal—but at the same time, criminals have found ways to adapt. This encyclopedic reference focuses primarily on urban lifestyle and its associated crimes, ranging from burglary to drug peddling to murder to new, more sophisticated forms of street crime and scams. This traditional A-to-Z reference has significant coverage of police and courts and other criminal justice sub-disciplines while also featuring thematic articles on the sociology of street crime. Features & Benefits: 175 signed entries within a single volume in print and electronic formats provide in-depth coverage to the topic of street crime in America. Cross-References and Suggestions for Further Readings guide readers to additional resources. Entries are supported by vivid photos and illustrations to better bring the material alive. A thematic Reader′s Guide groups related entries by broad topic areas and, within the electronic version, combines with Cross-References and a detailed Index for convenient search-and-browse capabilities. A Chronology provides readers with a historical perspective of street crime in America. Appendices provide sources of data and statistics, annotated to highlight their relevance.
Book Synopsis The Ecology of Urban Homelessness and Its Effect on Interpersonal Violence by : Joshua T. Ellsworth
Download or read book The Ecology of Urban Homelessness and Its Effect on Interpersonal Violence written by Joshua T. Ellsworth and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines interpersonal processes associated with violence and victimization among people experiencing homelessness. Those who reside in unsheltered environments, structures not intended for human habitation, or emergency shelters are exposed to criminogenic and inherently dangerous environments. Crime, violence, and victimization-particularly assault, theft, and robbery-are disproportionately prevalent among homeless adults. In order to better understand the nature of criminality in this setting, and to more accurately comprehend street crime- and violence-related behavioral processes, qualitative interviews were conducted with 50 adult male and female members of the Indianapolis homeless population. Interviews examined victimization experiences, including attitudes towards and perceptions of people who are more likely to be targeted for predation, as well as interpersonal disputes culminating in physical violence.This study's findings suggest both predatory and dispute-related violence is etiologically connected to three thematic concepts: (1) Vulnerability-enhancing factors, such as age and perceptible physical infirmities, accompanied by the possession of any potentially valuable item, were identified as central catalysts of street crime- and violence-related behaviors. The present study also examined (2) precipitating events in violent confrontations, including the concept of retaliation, the emergence of aggression through interpersonal disputes, and how conflicts over space and access to resources result in confrontation. The final area of findings, (3) aggravating characteristics, includes how psychiatric comorbidities, substance abuse-related problems, and the immiserating ecological characteristics of urban homelessness exacerbate violence-related processes.The last subsection of this study's findings, the concept of human misery, leads directly to this study's central conclusion, which focuses on the harms associated with exposure to physically and psychologically harmful environments. The multitude of hardships inherent in a homeless existence are coupled with unrelenting exposure to criminogenic and victimization-prone environments; as a result, people are prone to hypervigilance and a diminished or nonexistent sense of ontological security. Violent interpersonal processes are therefore worsened by unrelenting exposure to a harmful ecology. This study thereby addresses a void in both street crime- and homelessness-related literature by describing an intrinsic relationship between the criminogenic ecology of urban homelessness and the etiology of interpersonal violence.
Book Synopsis Criminal of Poverty by : Tiny, aka Lisa Gray-Garcia
Download or read book Criminal of Poverty written by Tiny, aka Lisa Gray-Garcia and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven-year-old Lisa becomes her mother’s primary support when they face the prospect of homelessness. As Dee, a single mother, struggles with the demons of her own childhood of neglect and abuse, Lisa has to quickly assume the role of an adult in an attempt to keep some stability in their lives. “Dee and Tiny” ultimately become underground celebrities in San Francisco, squatting in storefronts and performing the “art of homelessness.” Their story, filled with black humor and incisive analysis, illuminates the roots of poverty, the criminalization of poor families, and their struggle for survival.
Download or read book Invisible Victims written by Laura Huey and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite Western society's preoccupation with safety and protection, its most vulnerable members still lack access to the level of security that many of us take for granted. In this trailblazing study, Laura Huey illustrates the issue of a 'security gap' faced by increasing homeless populations: while they are among the most likely victims of crime, they are also among the least served by existing forms of state and private security. Invisible Victims presents the first comprehensive, integrated study of the risks faced by homeless people and their attempts to find safety and security in often dangerous environments. Huey draws not only on current debates on security within criminology, but also on a decade's worth of her own field research on the victimization and policing of the homeless. A theoretically and empirically informed examination of the myriad issues affecting the homeless, Invisible Victims makes a compelling case for society to provide necessary services and, above all, a basic level of security for this population.
Book Synopsis Homelessness, Health, and Human Needs by : Institute of Medicine
Download or read book Homelessness, Health, and Human Needs written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1988-02-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have always been homeless people in the United States, but their plight has only recently stirred widespread public reaction and concern. Part of this new recognition stems from the problem's prevalence: the number of homeless individuals, while hard to pin down exactly, is rising. In light of this, Congress asked the Institute of Medicine to find out whether existing health care programs were ignoring the homeless or delivering care to them inefficiently. This book is the report prepared by a committee of experts who examined these problems through visits to city slums and impoverished rural areas, and through an analysis of papers written by leading scholars in the field.
Book Synopsis Unsafe Streets by : Scott Ballintyne
Download or read book Unsafe Streets written by Scott Ballintyne and published by Institute for Public Policy Research. This book was released on 1999 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking report looks at the victimisation, offending and police contact of people who sleep rough.
Book Synopsis Homelessness, Crime, and the Police: Crime and Order Maintenance on the Street (PHD). by : Theron Macay Quist
Download or read book Homelessness, Crime, and the Police: Crime and Order Maintenance on the Street (PHD). written by Theron Macay Quist and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Risk Terrain Modeling by : Joel M. Caplan
Download or read book Risk Terrain Modeling written by Joel M. Caplan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine using an evidence-based risk management model that enables researchers and practitioners alike to analyze the spatial dynamics of crime, allocate resources, and implement custom crime and risk reduction strategies that are transparent, measurable, and effective. Risk Terrain Modeling (RTM) diagnoses the spatial attractors of criminal behavior and makes accurate forecasts of where crime will occur at the microlevel. RTM informs decisions about how the combined factors that contribute to criminal behavior can be targeted, connections to crime can be monitored, spatial vulnerabilities can be assessed, and actions can be taken to reduce worst effects. As a diagnostic method, RTM offers a statistically valid way to identify vulnerable places. To learn more, visit http://www.riskterrainmodeling.com and begin using RTM with the many free tutorials and resources.
Book Synopsis Homeless Come Home by : Benedict Giamo
Download or read book Homeless Come Home written by Benedict Giamo and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a sympathetic yet critical look at the life of homeless advocate David Owen, who was tortured and killed in 2006 by those he intended to help.
Book Synopsis Hidden Story of Homelessness by : Karen Latchana Kenney
Download or read book Hidden Story of Homelessness written by Karen Latchana Kenney and published by Raintree. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do people become homeless? What problems do homeless people face on the streets? How can homeless people find somewhere stable to live?
Book Synopsis Finding Home: Policy Options for Addressing Homelessness in Canada by :
Download or read book Finding Home: Policy Options for Addressing Homelessness in Canada written by and published by The Homeless Hub. This book was released on 2009 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
