{"title":"Theorizing a Social Ecology of Displacement: Structural-, Relational-, and Individual-Level Conditions of Homelessness among Young People","authors":"G. Samuels, S. Curry, C. Cerven","doi":"10.1086/717434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/717434","url":null,"abstract":"Every year 4.2 million young people in America experience some form of homelessness. The observation that homelessness has a complex etiology spanning structural, relational, and individual levels of influence is not novel. However, few studies have empirically demonstrated how conditions across these levels collectively shape a distinct social ecology of homelessness, particularly for youth. Using critical realism and the extended case method, we analyze in-depth interviews with 215 young people. Our findings suggest a social ecology of displacement prior to and during homelessness. Findings complement ecological perspectives on homelessness among youth but support a more dynamic, interdependent, and bidirectional theorizing of its causes and consequences. We propose a conceptual model illustrating these processes and call for critical placemaking as a much-needed, relationally just praxis with young people.","PeriodicalId":47665,"journal":{"name":"Social Service Review","volume":"95 1","pages":"561 - 615"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44085154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inequality of the Safety Net: The Rural-Urban Continuum, County-Level Poverty, and Nonprofit Human Services Expenditures","authors":"S. Shapiro","doi":"10.1086/717519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/717519","url":null,"abstract":"Using IRS-990 data from the National Center for Charitable Statistics, this study assesses differences in county expenditures on nonprofit human services, by level of county rurality, in American counties. It also examines the relationship between nonprofit human services expenditures and county-level poverty rates. The findings suggest that rural counties have a negative association with nonprofit human services expenditures as compared with urban counties after controlling for relevant covariates. There is intrarural heterogeneity: The most rural counties have the lowest rates of nonprofit human services expenditures and a negative association with nonprofit human services expenditures that persists after controlling for all covariates, whereas the most populous rural counties have relatively higher rates of expenditures. A negative association between county-level poverty and nonprofit human services expenditures is explained by the combination of county-level rurality and regional effects, underscoring the importance of policy attention to the underprovision of human services in rural counties.","PeriodicalId":47665,"journal":{"name":"Social Service Review","volume":"95 1","pages":"652 - 692"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44109415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Redistributing the Poor: Jails, Hospitals, and the Crisis of Law and Fiscal Austerity. By Armando Lara-Millán. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 240. $27.95 (paper).","authors":"E. Claypool","doi":"10.1086/716151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/716151","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47665,"journal":{"name":"Social Service Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43743733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Making It Work”: Accommodation and Resistance to Federal Policy in a Homelessness Continuum of Care","authors":"J. Frank, J. Baumohl","doi":"10.1086/715928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/715928","url":null,"abstract":"This is a case study of the development of a rural continuum of care (CoC) program funded by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to create a coherent system of services and planning processes to end homelessness. It concerns how the founding local coalition of agencies managed internal conflicts about HUD’s changing programmatic and administrative requirements from 1994 to 2015. It addresses the coalition’s relationship with HUD, intracoalition conflict between secular and faith-based agencies over federal requirements, and the workarounds developed to keep local divisions over service modalities from harming the larger project. Through this lens, we analyze the pressures for conformity intrinsic to the relationship between federal agencies and nonprofit grantees. We conclude that HUD and its CoC grantees have interdependent aims that limit the exercise of federal authority. Federal project grants may neither necessarily nor typically transform nonprofits in the image of the state.","PeriodicalId":47665,"journal":{"name":"Social Service Review","volume":"95 1","pages":"369 - 412"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48336122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carrie Pettus, C. Veeh, T. Renn, Stephanie C Kennedy
{"title":"The Well-Being Development Model: A Theoretical Model to Improve Outcomes among Criminal Justice System–Involved Individuals","authors":"Carrie Pettus, C. Veeh, T. Renn, Stephanie C Kennedy","doi":"10.1086/715852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/715852","url":null,"abstract":"This article proposes a new conceptual framework, the Well-Being Development Model (WBDM), to support the development, implementation, and assessment of innovative reentry interventions designed to increase well-being among the millions of individuals released from prisons and jails each year. In contrast to prominent models guiding reentry services, the WBDM increases incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals’ capacity to reach their full potential while addressing common problems and barriers to success. First, we describe the reentry context, explore the prominent conceptual foundation guiding reentry services, and establish the need for innovation. Then, we map five key facilitators of well-being development onto existing theoretical models and detail WBDM propositions. Finally, we propose how the use of data generated from WBDM-based interventions can redress structural and social disparities throughout the criminal justice system, allowing individuals to develop well-being while policy makers promote public health, public safety, and racial and economic equity.","PeriodicalId":47665,"journal":{"name":"Social Service Review","volume":"95 1","pages":"413 - 468"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48800878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Satisfaction with Child Support Services","authors":"D. Meyer, Yoona Kim","doi":"10.1086/715837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/715837","url":null,"abstract":"Although previous qualitative research in the United States suggests that noncustodial parents have difficult experiences with the child support system, there is no large-scale study of satisfaction. We use data on more than 1,800 socioeconomically disadvantaged noncustodial parents to explore their level of satisfaction and whether it is related to later child support payments. In contrast to qualitative research, we find that nearly half the noncustodial parents are satisfied with child support services. The level of satisfaction is found to be related to several agency actions and agency inflexibility. Non-Hispanic Black noncustodial parents who are satisfied pay more in support than those who were not satisfied; no relationship between satisfaction and payments is detected for other race and ethnicity groups or the sample as a whole. Our findings provide implications for policy makers and practitioners for understanding participant satisfaction and effectively addressing it in policies and services.","PeriodicalId":47665,"journal":{"name":"Social Service Review","volume":"95 1","pages":"469 - 512"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44076597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Help after Hardship: Trends and Disparities in Sources of Support following Experiences with Material Hardship","authors":"C. Campbell","doi":"10.1086/715977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/715977","url":null,"abstract":"When faced with material hardships like missing a rent payment or having telephone service disconnected, where do people find help? Using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, I examine the receipt of assistance following material hardships. I find that most people do not receive assistance following a hardship, but when people do receive assistance, social ties are a more common source of support than public and private safety net institutions. I find that the likelihood of receiving assistance varies by type of hardship experienced, and there has been a notable increase over time in the likelihood of receiving assistance following telephone service disconnection or utilities payment hardship. The findings also reveal differences across social and demographic groups. Overall, the findings contribute to understandings of how families make ends meet during hard times and draw attention to high levels of unmet need for assistance among households experiencing hardship.","PeriodicalId":47665,"journal":{"name":"Social Service Review","volume":"95 1","pages":"513 - 544"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48297506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shaping a Science of Social Work: Professional Knowledge and Identity. Edited by John Brekke and Jeane Anastas. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 252. $45.00 (cloth).","authors":"J. Pinkerton","doi":"10.1086/716087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/716087","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47665,"journal":{"name":"Social Service Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47124539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lawrence M. Berger, M. Cancian, Angela Guarin, Leslie Hodges, D. Meyer
{"title":"Barriers to Formal Child Support Payment","authors":"Lawrence M. Berger, M. Cancian, Angela Guarin, Leslie Hodges, D. Meyer","doi":"10.1086/714370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/714370","url":null,"abstract":"Child support income has the potential to substantially reduce economic hardship for children living apart from their fathers, but many fathers have limited earnings and are unable to pay the support they owe. Understanding their employment barriers has implications for their child support payments and for child support agency services. Using data from a survey of nearly 3,800 noncustodial fathers in seven states, we find that more than half of the fathers reported barriers related to transportation, limited job skills, and criminal records. Although results vary somewhat across models, fathers who reported that transportation difficulties or a criminal record were barriers to employment had substantially lower earnings and poorer child support outcomes. Moreover, Black fathers with a criminal record had particularly poor outcomes. The results highlight the need for a more comprehensive approach to helping noncustodial fathers.","PeriodicalId":47665,"journal":{"name":"Social Service Review","volume":"95 1","pages":"312 - 357"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/714370","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49168702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}