SOC379H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Stranger Danger, Child Abuse, Substance Abuse
Document Summary
Homelessness: history of victimization, victimization on the streets, women, lgbtq. Interactions with cjs and supports: homeless and crime, mental illness and homeless, shelters. Issues with walks and bourne: berardi with criticisms (research on ghettos is american) Welfare fraud: a brief sketch, kimberly rogers. Frequent foster care; out of home placements (institutionalized at a young age) (disruption and family difficulties are key) A history of family violence predicts failure to exit homelessness (linked to social support networks perhaps, lack thereof, or a lack of trust with system or with figures) trapped in homeless cycle. Theft, assault, and shelter violence quite common (violence related to shelter not to general public) Victimized by the public (in context of panhandling, ssa supposed address) Some protective bonds- street family: weak/superficial (not lasting bonds, and romantic ideal of strong support network, no way replace the family)
