Homeless in America

Author(s)

• Caton, Carol L. M.

Bibliographic Information

Homeless in America

Carol L. M. Caton

Oxford University Press, 1990

• : alk. paper

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-220)

Includes indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This is the first comprehensive account of the homeless in the United States. In addition to the "traditional" homeless - bag ladies, alcoholics, and tramps - the author looks at the growing number of new homeless: young people, welfare mothers and families, and the mentally ill. The book includes case perspectives, as well as a description of alternative living arrangements and policies affecting the homeless.

Table of Contents

• Homelessness in historical perspective
• The epidemiology of homelessness
• The homeless of the 1980s: case reports from a clinician's notebook: Jeffrey Grunberg: Homeless men
• Lois Wolf: Homeless women
• Runaway and homeless youth
• Paul Eagle: Homelessness and mental health
• Arnold Drapkin: Medical problems of the homeless
• Crisis shelter and housing programs
• Peter Marcuse: Homelessness and housing policy
• Kim Hopper: Advocacy for the homeless in the 1980s
• Solutions to the homeless problem
• References
• Index.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA10134302
• ISBN:
  • 0195039181
• LCCN: 89016259
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 236 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HV4505
  • DC20 : 362.5/8/0973
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Homelessness -- United States
  • LCSH : Homeless persons -- Services for -- United States