Distorting Tendencies in Research on the Homeless

Snow, David A.; Anderson, Léon; Koegel, Paul

doi:10.1177/0002764294037004004

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“…Veterans in our study tended to favor a situation-based perspective, which contrasts with services providers and researchers, who tend to a more pathologyoriented approach (Snow, Anderson, & Koegel, 1994), especially in a health care setting such as the VA. Our findings provide support for both perspectives; however, they represent crosscutting perceptions and priorities that could impede communication between those seeking assistance and those providing it and thus interfere with accessing services.…”

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Pathways into homelessness among post-9/11-era veterans.

Metraux¹,

Cusack

Byrne

et al. 2017

Psychological Services

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Despite the scale of veteran homelessness and government-community initiatives to end homelessness among veterans, few studies have featured individual veteran accounts of experiencing homelessness. Here we track veterans' trajectories from military service to homelessness through qualitative, semistructured interviews with 17 post-9/11-era veterans. Our objective was to examine how veterans become homeless-including the role of military and postmilitary experiences-and how they negotiate and attempt to resolve episodes of homelessness. We identify and report results in 5 key thematic areas: transitioning from military service to civilian life, relationships and employment, mental and behavioral health, lifetime poverty and adverse events, and use of veteran-specific services. We found that veterans predominantly see their homelessness as rooted in nonmilitary, situational factors such as unemployment and the breakup of relationships, despite very tangible ties between homelessness and combat sequelae that manifest themselves in clinical diagnoses such as posttraumatic stress disorder. Furthermore, although assistance provided by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and community-based organizations offer a powerful means for getting veterans rehoused, veterans also recount numerous difficulties in accessing and obtaining VA services and assistance. Based on this, we offer specific recommendations for more systematic and efficient measures to help engage veterans with VA services that can prevent or attenuate their homelessness.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Pathways into homelessness among post-9/11-era veterans.

Metraux¹,

Cusack

Byrne

et al. 2017

Psychological Services

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“…In making these conclusions, this study has emphasized the dynamics between shelters and jails and prisons, instead of the individual characteristics of the persons in the study group that are usually the focus of such studies (Snow, Anderson & Koegel 1994). 12.2 3.9 3.5 *** -Appropriate tests of significance (chi-square and t-test) indicates significant differences (p<.001) between the prison subgroup and the rest of the study group.…”

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Recent Incarceration History Among a Sheltered Homeless Population

Metraux

Culhane

2006

Crime & Delinquency

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This study examined incarceration histories and shelter use patterns of 7,022 persons staying in public shelters in New York City. Through matching administrative shelter records with data on releases from New York State prisons and New York City jails, 23.1% of a point-prevalent shelter population was identified as having had an incarceration within the previous two-year period. Persons entering shelter following a jail episode (17.0%) exhibited different shelter stay patterns than those having exited a prison episode (7.7%), leading to the conclusion that different dynamics predominate and different interventions are called for in preventing homelessness among persons released from jail and from prison.

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“…This raises some problems, some of which have already been documented by researchers (e.g., Snow, Anderson, & Koegel, 1994). Researchers such as Shinn and Weitzman (1990), have long argued that local, small-scale studies on homelessness are needed to highlight ''the effects of the socioeconomic context'' (p. 7), including the impact of Australian Social Work 275 urban renewal and the commodification of space, both of which have particular significance for people sleeping rough.…”

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confidence: 99%

Context, Context, Context: A Commentary on Responding to People Sleeping Rough: Dilemmas and Opportunities for Social Work, (Parsell, 2011)

Coleman

2012

Australian Social Work

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Distorting Tendencies in Research on the Homeless

Cited by 69 publications

References 12 publications

Pathways into homelessness among post-9/11-era veterans.

Pathways into homelessness among post-9/11-era veterans.

Recent Incarceration History Among a Sheltered Homeless Population

Context, Context, Context: A Commentary on Responding to People Sleeping Rough: Dilemmas and Opportunities for Social Work, (Parsell, 2011)

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