Research ArticleIV. The Prison as Poverty Institution
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Homelessness and Housing Insecurity Among Former Prisoners
Claire W. Herbert, Jeffrey D. Morenoff, David J. Harding
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences November 2015, 1 (2) 44-79; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2015.1.2.04
Claire W. Herbert
aDoctoral student, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan
Jeffrey D. Morenoff
bAssociate professor of sociology and associate research professor in the Population Studies Center and Survey Research Center, University of Michigan
David J. Harding
cAssociate professor of sociology, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

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Homelessness and Housing Insecurity Among Former Prisoners
Claire W. Herbert, Jeffrey D. Morenoff, David J. Harding
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Nov 2015, 1 (2) 44-79; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2015.1.2.04
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- Article
- Abstract
- LINKS BETWEEN PRISONER REENTRY AND HOUSING INSECURITY
- BARRIERS TO HOUSING STABILITY AMONG FORMER PRISONERS
- Community Supervision and Residential Instability
- PRIOR RESEARCH ON HOUSING INSECURITY AND HOMELESSNESS AMONG RETURNING PRISONERS
- DATA
- METHODS
- RESULTS
- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION
- Acknowledgments
- FOOTNOTES
- REFERENCES
- Figures & Data
- Info & Metrics
- References
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