How Institutions Deprive: Ethnography, Social Work, and Interventionist Ethics Among the Hypermarginalized

Megan Comfort; Andrea M. Lopez; Christina Powers; Alex H. Kral; Jennifer Lorvick

doi:10.7758/RSF.2015.1.1.06

Article Information

vol. 1 no. 1 100-119

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2015.1.1.06

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online November 1, 2015.

Copyright © 2015 by Russell Sage Foundation. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Reproduction by the United States Government in whole or in part is permitted for any purpose. This research was supported by funding from the National Institutes of Health (R01MH094090, PI: Kral; R01DA033847, PI: Comfort; and R01MD007679, PI: Lorvick). We thank Jay Borchert, Elizabeth Kita, Reuben Miller, Victor Rios, Megan Tompkins-Stange, Damian T. Williams, and the participants in the Russell Sage Foundation “Severe Deprivation in America” conference for their invigorating and helpful feedback on drafts of the manuscript. We are particularly grateful to special issue editor Matthew Desmond for his detailed comments and insightful suggestions. And we are tremendously appreciative of and indebted to the people who participated in our research, and hope that we have done justice to the experiences they shared with us. Direct correspondence to: Megan Comfort at mcomfort{at}rti.org, Andrea M. Lopez at alopez{at}rti.org, Christina Powers at cpowers.contractor{at}rti.org, Alex H. Kral at akral{at}rti.org, and Jennifer Lorvick at jlorvick{at}rti.org; all authors at RTI International, 351 California St., Suite 500, San Francisco, CA 94014. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Megan Comfort^a,
Andrea M. Lopez^b,
Christina Powers^c,
Alex H. Kral^d and
Jennifer Lorvick^e

^aSenior research sociologist, Behavioral and Urban Health Program at RTI International
^bResearch medical anthropologist, Behavioral and Urban Health Program at RTI International
^cLicensed clinical social worker, Behavioral and Urban Health Program at RTI International
^dSenior research epidemiologist, Behavioral and Urban Health Program at RTI International
^eSenior public health scientist, Behavioral and Urban Health Program at RTI International

Corresponding authors:
Megan Comfort, (mcomfort{at}rti.org); Andrea M. Lopez, (alopez{at}rti.org); Christina Powers, (cpowers.contractor{at}rti.org); Alex H. Kral, (akral{at}rti.org); Jennifer Lorvick, (jlorvick{at}rti.org)

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