Victimization of Homeless Youth: Public and Private Regimes of Control (From Race, Gender, and Class in Criminology: The Intersection, P 159-192, 1996, Martin D Schwartz and Dragan Milovanovic, eds. -- See NCJ-164529)

• NCJ Number: 164538
• Author(s): S E Hatty; N J Davis; S Burke
• Date Published: 1996
• Length: 34 pages
• Sale Source: Garland Publishing, Inc.
• Publication Type: Issue Overview
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: This is a revised version of a paper presented at the American Society of Criminology conference in Miami, November 9- 12, 1994.

Annotation

This chapter discusses the intersection of gender, race, and class as they impact upon homelessness.

Abstract

The "politics of domination" is at the core of this analysis. In the hierarchical organization of society, power and authority are unevenly distributed. The effect of this disparity in resources is that those with more social power are granted a license to engage in conduct that will secure and confirm their positional advantage. Those who are disadvantaged, by virtue of their lack of material or social assets, are vulnerable to the intrusion of sanctioning behaviors. Women, the poor, the disenfranchised, and children are particularly at risk of exposure to behaviors intended to influence and sometimes constrain their belief systems, their self-perceptions, and their ability to exercise freedom of choice. This receives its expression in the regimes of social control that range across a continuum of violence and that shape and limit the behaviors of homeless persons, especially homeless youth. 83 references