The Routledge Handbook of Homelessness brings together many of the world’s leading scholars in the field to provide a cutting-edge overview of classic and current research and future trends in the subject.
Comprising 41 chapters and divided into four sections, the handbook includes
A comprehensive introduction to homelessness, referring to history, culture, causation and definitions.
Contemporary and historical debates around homelessness in different academic disciplines.
Homelessness relating to gender, sexuality, youth, families, migration, rurality, veterans and health.
A range of country-specific studies to illustrate the ways in which homelessness is researched and understood around the world.
Methods of engagement and modes of analysis.
With contributors from around the world and editors from the Centre of Housing Policy at the University of York, this handbook provides a groundbreaking and authoritative guide to theory, method and the primary interdisciplinary debates of today on homelessness. It will be essential reading for students, academics and professionals across the disciplines of sociology, human geography, public policy, housing policy, social policy, social work, economics and criminology.
Author(s): Joanne Bretherton, Nicholas Pleace
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 474
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
1 The Role of the Handbook
Section 1 An Introduction to Homelessness
2 Historical Perspectives on Homelessness
3 Causation
4 Defining and Counting Homelessness
5 Responding to Homelessness: Making the Human Right to Housing a Reality in Scotland?
6 Homelessness and Welfare Systems
7 COVID-19
Section 2 Homelessness Across Different Disciplines
8 Crime, Punishment and Homelessness
9 Homelessness and Social Work: Current Challenges and Future Opportunities
10 Homelessness in Human Geography
11 Homelessness Through a Feminist Lens
12 Evidence-Based Approaches to Guide Health Providers for People Experiencing Vulnerable Housing and Complex Needs
Section 3 The Dimensions of Homelessness
13 Gender
14 LGBTQ+ People and Homelessness
15 Youth
16 Children and Families
17 Migration and Ethnicity
18 Rural Dimensions of Homelessness
19 Veteran Homelessness
20 Homelessness and Health Through the Lens of Social Quality
21 Complex Needs and Housing First
22 Homelessness and Substance Use
23 Costs
Section 4 International Experience of Homelessness
24 Home Truths: Homelessness in Australia
25 Modern Mass Homelessness in Canada
26 Homelessness in China
27 Homelessness in Denmark
28 Homelessness in Finland
29 Homelessness in Germany
30 Homelessness in Hungary
31 Ireland and Homelessness
32 Homelessness in Italy
33 Homelessness in Japan
34 Homelessness in Poland
35 Homelessness in Portugal
36 Homelessness in Slovenia
37 Sweden
38 UK
39 Homelessness in the United States
40 Homelessness in Montevideo: Policy Implications and Future Challenges
41 Homelessness Futures
Index
