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3.2 Whose Safety Counts? Street Youth, Social Exclusion, Criminal Victimization
Author(s): Stephen Gaetz
Publisher: Canadian Observatory on Homelessness
Publication Date: 2009
Street youth are much more likely than domiciled youth to be victims of a broad range of crimes; in particular, young women who are homeless face increased vulnerability to violent crime, including sexual assault. While background variables (a history of violence), lifestyle, and routine activities theories have been used to explain criminal victimization, the author argues that the conditions that place street youth at risk are connected to thei...
Homelessness and Perceptions of Safety City in Toronto
Author(s): Stephen Gaetz
Publication Date: 2000
A report of a research on homelessness conducted for the City of Toronto.
Developing Dental Services for Street Youth
Author(s): Stephen Gaetz, Jack Lee
Publication Date: 1995
The article focuses on oral health of the marginalized populations and advocates developing better dental services for them.
Homelessness, Gender and Subsistence: The Case of Toronto Street Youth
Author(s): Bill O'Grady, Stephen Gaetz
Publication Date: 2004
Research on employment segregation & women's lower earnings has predominantly focused on labour-market participants. Marginal groups such as the homeless have therefore been excluded from theory & research on work-related gender segregation. In order to fill this void, this paper explores how income creation among homeless youth from Toronto, Canada varies according to gender. Based on questionnaire and interview data our results...
Making Money: the Shout Clinic Report on Homeless Youth and Employment
Author(s): Stephen Gaetz, Bill O'Grady, Brian Vaillancourt
Organization: The Shout Clinic
Publication Date: 1999
In our report, Making Money The Shout Clinic Report on Homeless Youth and Employment, we are bringing into focus the issues of homeless youth. In 1999, we conducted an "action research" project in which we surveyed 360 homeless youth in Toronto (in addition, 20 taped interviews). Our goal was to determine the needs and capacities of street youth with regards to employment. That is, to understand their current patterns of making money, to assess t...
Street Justice: Homeless Youth and Access to Justice
Author(s): Stephen Gaetz
Publication Date: 2002
This report has been prepared for Justice for Children and Youth. It is a preliminary summary of the findings of research conducted in 2001-2002, in order to evaluate the legal and justice issues of homeless and street involved youth in Toronto.
Understanding Research on Homelessness in Toronto: a Literature Review
Author(s): Stephen Gaetz
Publication Date: 2004
This literature review is an attempt to synthesize Canadian research on homelessness, with a specific focus on research conducted in Toronto. That is, the literature presented here will emphasize studies conducted in Toronto and/or studies from elsewhere in Canada that are seen to speak more directly to the issues relevant in the Toronto context. The approach used here will be based on a "determinants of health" perspective; one...
Safe Streets for Whom? Homeless Youth, Social Exclusion, and Criminal Victimization
Author(s): Stephen Gaetz
Publication Date: 2004
This article explores the victimization that street youth experience, living in Toronto, Canada. Street youth are much more likely than domiciled youth to be victims of various types of crimes. Specifically, young homeless women face increased vulnerability to specific forms of violent crime, such as sexual assault. Complex and numerous circumstances contribe to this high level of criminal victimization among street youth. While background variab...
The Missing Link: Discharge Planning, Incarceration and Homelessness
Author(s): Stephen Gaetz, Bill O'Grady
Organization: HRSDC-HPS
Publication Date: 2006
The objective of this research was to provide a preliminary assessment, based on data collected in Ontario and British Columbia, of the relationship between incarceration, prison re-entry and homelessness. Independently, these issues have been explored in previous Canadian research, yet this is one of the first studies to look at the interconnections among these realms.