By Chris Chamberlain, Guy Johnson, Catherine Robinson
ISBN-10: 1742234062
ISBN-13: 9781742234069
The 1st booklet to discover the complexities of homelessness in Australia - and the long run rules prone to enhance the situation.What is homelessness? Who counts as homeless? Whose accountability is homelessness? In Homelessness in Australia specialists within the quarter supply well timed insights into the historical past, motives and quantity of homelessness during this state - and the longer term coverage instructions probably to have a good impression. protecting concerns comparable to gender, Indigenous homelessness, relatives violence, teenagers and the consequences of trauma, the booklet goals to enhance either the certainty of the complexities concerned and the results for these experiencing homelessness.
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Snow, D, Anderson, L & Koegel, P (1994) ‘Distorting tendencies in research on the homeless’, American Behavioral Scientist, 37(4), 461–76. ’, European Journal of Homelessness, 1, 201–12. Timmer, D, Eitzen, D & Talley, K (1994) Paths to Homelessness: Extreme poverty and the urban housing crisis, Westview Press, Boulder. Tomas, A & Dittmar, H. (1995) ‘The experience of homeless women: An exploration of housing histories and the meaning of home’, Housing Studies, 10(4), 493–515. Van Krieken, R, Smith, P, Habibis, D, McDonald, R, Haralambos, M & Holborn, M (2000) Sociology: Themes and perspectives, 2nd edn, Pearson Education Australia, Frenchs Forest.
2010) adopting a more critical line of argument. However, much of the early empirical work was overly descriptive and failed to support a cogent explanation of the mechanisms through which structure and agency interact (Clapham 2002; 2003). More recently, researchers have drawn on the work of social theorists such as Giddens to advance a more sophisticated ‘way out of the structure versus agency dichotomy’ (Neale 1997, p. 56). indd 41 11/08/2014 10:20 am homelessness in australia that people are influenced by the social structures and cultural traditions of their society, yet they are actively engaged in determining their own future.
1995, p. 1642). Over the last two decades, homelessness researchers have sought to provide an integrated approach, with academics in the United Kingdom (Fitzpatrick 1999; Hutson & Liddiard 1994; May 2000; Tomas & Dittmar 1995), the United States (Metraux & Culhane 1999; Snow et al. 1994), and more recently, in Australia (Johnson et al. 2008; Mallett et al. 2010) adopting a more critical line of argument. However, much of the early empirical work was overly descriptive and failed to support a cogent explanation of the mechanisms through which structure and agency interact (Clapham 2002; 2003).
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