Homelessness, offending, victimization, and criminal legal system contact

B McCarthy, J Hagan - Annual Review of Criminology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
There is now a sizable literature on connections between homelessness, crime, and criminal
legal system contact. We review studies on these relationships, focusing mostly on links …

'Fighting'for survival: A systematic review of physically violent behavior perpetrated and experienced by homeless young people

JA Heerde, SA Hemphill, KE Scholes-Balog - Aggression and violent …, 2014 - Elsevier
Objectives This systematic review appraises published studies reporting associations
between homelessness, perpetration of physically violent behavior and experience of …

Housing and social support for youth aging out of foster care: State of the research literature and directions for future inquiry

SR Curry, LS Abrams - Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 2015 - Springer
Youth who age out of the foster care system often experience a difficult transition to
adulthood in several important domains, including housing. Although high rates of …

Increasing resilience among LGBTQ youth: The protective role of natural mentors

Y Sulimani-Aidan, G Shilo, JC Paul - Children and Youth Services Review, 2024 - Elsevier
Based on the minority stress model, which emphasizes the unique risk stressors that impact
LGBTQ youths' lives, and the resilience perspective, which emphasizes the interaction …

A social capital approach to identifying correlates of perceived social support among homeless youth

A Barman-Adhikari, E Bowen, K Bender… - Child & Youth Care …, 2016 - Springer
Background The ability of homeless youth to accumulate resources through their personal
relationships with others (ie social capital) is often associated with improved outcomes …

Barriers and facilitators to shelter utilization among homeless young adults

Y Ha, SC Narendorf, D Santa Maria… - Evaluation and program …, 2015 - Elsevier
Rates of shelter use among homeless youth are low compared to use of other supportive
services, yet research on barriers to shelter use has been conducted in limited regions …

Development & maintenance of social support among aged out foster youth who received independent living services: Results from the Multi-Site Evaluation of Foster …

JKP Greeson, AR Garcia, M Kim, AE Thompson… - Children and youth …, 2015 - Elsevier
This study uses secondary data from the Multi-Site Evaluation of Foster Youth Programs, a
randomized controlled trial of four independent living programs for youth in foster care. The …

How social policies shape the health and well-being of sexual-and gender-minority youth: pathways of influence, social side effects and implications for life course …

MM Philbin, HM Wurtz, T McCrimmon, E Kelly… - Social Science & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent research has documented the harmful health consequences of structural-level
stigma that targets sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals. In the case of sexual and …

Gender, co** strategies, homelessness stressors, and income generation among homeless young adults in three cities

KM Ferguson, K Bender, SJ Thompson - Social Science & Medicine, 2015 - Elsevier
This study examined gender differences among homeless young adults' co** strategies
and homelessness stressors as they relate to legal (eg, full-time employment, selling …

Coming of age on the streets: Survival sex among homeless young women in Hollywood

CW Warf, LF Clark, M Desai, SJ Rabinovitz… - Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
This study examined childhood physical or sexual abuse, involvement in dependency or
delinquency systems, psychiatric hospitalization, and suicide as possible risk factors for …