Seeking place: young people, homelessness and violence

Jordan, Lucinda May

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Jordan, Lucinda May. Monash University. Faculty of Arts. School of Political and Social Inquiry, Department of Criminology; 2011. Seeking place: young people, homelessness and violence.

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Title: Seeking place: young people, homelessness and violence
Creator: Jordan, Lucinda May
Contributor: Principal Supervisor: Sharon Pickering
Subject: Young people
Subject: Homelessness
Subject: Violence
Subject: Policing
Subject: Human rights
Date: 2011
Publisher: Monash University. Faculty of Arts. School of Political and Social Inquiry, Department of Criminology
Description: This thesis draws upon in-depth qualitative interviews with 33 young people in Melbourne, Australia, to examine the impact of homelessness, violence and policing on their sense of self, place and belonging. Specifically, this research highlights the pervasive presence of violence and policing in homeless young people’s lives, and argues that these experiences exclude young people from public and private spaces that are important to them, undermine their sense of belonging as citizens, and violate their own constructions of self and place in the world. By engaging with scholarship from human geography, youth studies, sociology and critical criminology, this thesis builds upon the existing criminological literature on marginalised young people’s experiences of criminalisation and victimisation, and offers a nuanced understanding of the impact of these processes from young people’s perspective. In doing so, it seeks not only to extend the criminological literature, but also to contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of youth homelessness that can inform policy and practice responses, and to broader discussions regarding marginalised young people’s place in society.

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Identifier: http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/523206
Identifier: ethesis-20110714-144516
Identifier: monash:80114
Language: eng
Rights: Restricted access: access to thesis full text is restricted to institutional document delivery requests to supply the thesis in whole or part, under Section 51 (2) of the Australian Copyright Act 1968.
Rights: This thesis is protected by copyright. Copyright in the thesis remains with the author. The Monash University ARROW Repository has a non-exclusive licence to publish and communicate this thesis online.
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Type: thesis(doctorate)

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