Skip to main content

Main menu

  • Foundation Website
  • Journal Home
  • Issues
    • Current Issue
    • All Issues
    • Future Issues
  • For Authors and Editors
    • Overview of RSF & How to Propose an Issue
    • RSF Style and Submission Guidelines
    • Article Submission Checklist
    • Permission Request
    • Terms of Contributor Agreement Form and Transfer of Copyright
    • RSF Contributor Agreement Form
    • Issue Editors' Agreement Form
  • About the Journal
    • Mission Statement
    • Editorial Board
    • Comments and Replies Policy
    • Journal Code of Ethics
    • Current Calls for Articles
    • Closed Calls for Articles
    • Abstracting and Indexing
    • Privacy Policy
    • Copyright and ISSN Information
    • Terms of Use
    • Contact Us
  • Publications
    • rsf

User menu

  • Log in

Search

  • Advanced search
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
  • Publications
    • rsf
  • Log in
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Advanced Search

  • Foundation Website
  • Journal Home
  • Issues
    • Current Issue
    • All Issues
    • Future Issues
  • For Authors and Editors
    • Overview of RSF & How to Propose an Issue
    • RSF Style and Submission Guidelines
    • Article Submission Checklist
    • Permission Request
    • Terms of Contributor Agreement Form and Transfer of Copyright
    • RSF Contributor Agreement Form
    • Issue Editors' Agreement Form
  • About the Journal
    • Mission Statement
    • Editorial Board
    • Comments and Replies Policy
    • Journal Code of Ethics
    • Current Calls for Articles
    • Closed Calls for Articles
    • Abstracting and Indexing
    • Privacy Policy
    • Copyright and ISSN Information
    • Terms of Use
    • Contact Us
  • Follow rsf on Twitter
  • Visit rsf on Facebook
  • Follow rsf on Google Plus
Research ArticleIV. The Prison as Poverty Institution
Open Access

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
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Jeffrey D. Morenoff
bAssociate professor of sociology and associate research professor in the Population Studies Center and Survey Research Center, University of Michigan
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
David J. Harding
cAssociate professor of sociology, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
  • Article
  • Figures & Data
  • References
  • Info & Metrics
  • PDF
Loading

REFERENCES

  1. ↵
    1. Bassuk, Ellen L.,
    2. John C. Buckner,
    3. Linda F. Weinreb,
    4. Angela Browne, and
    5. Shari S. Bassuk
    . 1997. “Homelessness in Female-Headed Families: Childhood and Adult Risk and Protective Factors.” American Journal of Public Health 87: 241–48.
    OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedWeb of Science
  2. ↵
    Beck, Allen J., and Laura M. Maruschak. 2001. “Mental Health Treatment in State Prisons, 2000.” Washington: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics.
  3. ↵
    Beckett, Katherine, and Steve K. Herbert. 2010. Banished: The Transformation of Urban Social Control. New York: Oxford University Press.
  4. ↵
    Blau, Joel. 1992. The Visible Poor: Homelessness in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press.
  5. ↵
    Bradley, Katharine H., R. B. Michael Oliver, Noel C. Richardson, and Elspeth M. Slayter. 2001. “No Place Like Home: Housing and the Ex-prisoner.” Policy Brief. Boston: Community Resources for Justice (November).
  6. ↵
    1. Brayne, Sarah
    . 2014. “Surveillance and System Avoidance: Criminal Justice Contact and Institutional Attachment.” American Sociological Review 79(367): 367–91.
    OpenUrlCrossRefWeb of Science
  7. ↵
    1. Bucklen, Kristofer B., and
    2. Gary Zajac
    . 2009. “But Some of Them Don’t Come Back (to Prison!): Resource Deprivation and Thinking Errors as Determinants of Parole Success and Failure.” Prison Journal 89(3, July): 239–64.
    OpenUrlCrossRefWeb of Science
  8. ↵
    1. Burgard, Sarah A.,
    2. Kristin S. Seefeldt, and
    3. Sarah Zelner
    . 2012. “Housing Instability and Health: Findings from the Michigan Recession and Recovery Study.” Social Science and Medicine 75(12): 2215–24.
    OpenUrlCrossRef
  9. ↵
    Burt, Martha R. 1992. Over the Edge: The Growth of Homelessness in the 1980s. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
  10. ↵
    Bushway, Shawn D., Michael A. Stoll, and David F. Weiman, eds. 2007. Barriers to Reentry? The Labor Market for Released Prisoners in Post-industrial America. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
  11. ↵
    1. Cooke, Cheryl L
    . 2005. “Going Home: Formerly Incarcerated African American Men Return to Families and Communities.” Journal of Family Nursing 11(4, November): 388–404.
    OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedWeb of Science
  12. ↵
    Donley, Amy M., and James D. Wright. 2008. “Cleaning Up the Streets: Community Efforts to Combat Homelessness by Criminalizing Homeless Behaviors.” In Homelessness in America, vol. 3, Solutions to Homelessness, edited by Robert McNamara. New York: Praeger.
  13. ↵
    1. Freudenberg, Nicholas,
    2. Jesse Daniels,
    3. Martha Crum,
    4. Tiffany Perkins, and
    5. Beth E. Richie
    . 2005. “Coming Home from Jail: The Social and Health Consequences of Community Reentry for Women, Male Adolescents, and Their Families and Communities.” American Journal of Public Health 95: 1725–36.
    OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedWeb of Science
  14. ↵
    1. Garland, Brett,
    2. Eric J. Wodahl, and
    3. Julie Mayfield
    . 2010. “Prisoner Reentry in a Small Metropolitan Community: Obstacles and Policy Recommendations.” Criminal Justice Policy Review 22(1, March): 90–110.
    OpenUrl
  15. ↵
    1. Geller, Amanda, and
    2. Marah A. Curtis
    . 2011. “A Sort of Homecoming: Incarceration and the Housing Security of Urban Men.” Social Science Research 40(4, July 1): 1196–1213.
    OpenUrlCrossRefPubMed
  16. ↵
    1. Godsoe, Cynthia
    . 1998. “Ban on Welfare for Felony Drug Offenders: Giving a New Meaning to Life Sentence.” Berkeley Women’s Law Journal 13: 257–67.
    OpenUrl
  17. ↵
    Goffman, Alice. 2014. On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  18. ↵
    1. Gowan, Teresa
    . 2002. “The Nexus: Homelessness and Incarceration in Two American Cities.” Ethnography 3(4, December): 500–34.
    OpenUrlCrossRef
  19. ↵
    1. Greenberg, Greg A., and
    2. Robert A. Rosenheck
    . 2008. “Jail Incarceration, Homelessness, and Mental Health: A National Study.” Psychiatric Services 59: 170–77.
    OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedWeb of Science
  20. ↵
    1. Harding, David J.,
    2. Jeffrey D. Morenoff, and
    3. Claire W. Herbert
    . 2013. “Home Is Hard to Find: Neighborhoods, Institutions, and the Residential Trajectories of Returning Prisoners.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 647(1, May 1): 214–36.
    OpenUrlCrossRef
  21. ↵
    1. Harding, David J.,
    2. Jessica Wyse,
    3. Cheyney Dobson, and
    4. Jeffrey D. Morenoff
    . 2014. “Making Ends Meet After Prison.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 33(2): 440–70.
    OpenUrlCrossRefPubMed
  22. Harrell, Frank E., Jr. 2001. Regression Modeling Strategies: With Applications to Linear Models, Logistic Regression, and Survival Analysis. New York: Springer.
  23. ↵
    1. Helfgott, Jacqueline
    . 1997. “Ex-offender Needs Versus Community Opportunity in Seattle, Washington.” Federal Probation 61(2): 12–24.
    OpenUrlWeb of Science
  24. ↵
    Herbert, Claire W. 2014. “The Ethos of Care: Assessing the (Nonlegal) Right to Property in Detroit.” Unpublished paper. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
  25. ↵
    Holzer, Harry J. 1996. What Employers Want: Job Prospects for Less-Educated Workers. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
  26. ↵
    1. Honig, Marjorie, and
    2. Randall K. Filer
    . 1993. “Causes of Intercity Variation in Homelessness.” American Economic Review 83: 248–55.
    OpenUrlWeb of Science
  27. ↵
    Jencks, Christopher. 1994. The Homeless. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
  28. ↵
    1. Lee, Barrett A.,
    2. Kimberly A. Tyler, and
    3. James D. Wright
    . 2010. “The New Homelessness Revisited.” Annual Review of Sociology 36(1, June): 501–21.
    OpenUrlCrossRefPubMed
    1. Leopold, Josh
    . 2012. “The Housing Needs of Rental Assistant Applicants.” Cityscape 14(2): 257–98.
    OpenUrl
  29. ↵
    1. Lutze, Faith E.,
    2. Jeffrey W. Rosky, and
    3. Zachary K. Hamilton
    . 2013. “Homelessness and Reentry: A Multisite Outcome Evaluation of Washington State’s Reentry Housing Program for High Risk Offenders.” Criminal Justice and Behavior 41(4, December 19): 471–91.
    OpenUrl
  30. ↵
    1. Lynch, Mona
    . 1998. “Waste Managers? The New Penology, Crime Fighting, and Parole Agent Identity.” Law and Society Review 32: 839–69.
    OpenUrlCrossRefWeb of Science
  31. (Stewart B.) McKinney Homeless Assistance Act. 1987. HR 558 (100th Cong.).
  32. McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act. 1987. Pub. L. 100-77, July 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 482, 42 U.S.C. § 11301 et seq.
  33. ↵
    1. Metraux, Stephen, and
    2. Dennis P. Culhane
    . 1999. “Family Dynamics, Housing, and Recurring Homelessness Among Women in New York City Shelters.” Journal of Family Issues 20: 371–96.
    OpenUrlCrossRefWeb of Science
  34. ↵
    1. Metraux, Stephen, and
    2. Dennis P. Culhane
    . 2004. “Homeless Shelter Use and Reincarceration Following Prison Release.” Criminology and Public Policy 3(2): 139–60.
    OpenUrlCrossRef
  35. ↵
    Metraux, Stephen, Caterina G. Roman, and Richard S. Cho. 2008. “Incarceration and Homelessness.” In Toward Understanding Homelessness: The 2007 National Symposium on Homelessness Research, edited by Deborah Dennis, Gretchen Locke, and Jill Khadduri. Washington: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Available at: http://www.works.bepress.com/metraux/1 (accessed October 1, 2015).
  36. Morenoff, Jeffrey D., and David J. Harding. 2011. “Final Technical Report: Neighborhoods, Recidivism, and Employment Among Returning Prisoners.” Report submitted to the National Institute of Justice (grant award 2008-IJ-CX-0018).
  37. ↵
    Mumola, Christopher J. 1999. “Substance Abuse and Treatment, State and Federal Prisoners, 1997.” Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report. Washington: U.S. Department of Justice (January).
  38. ↵
    National Low Income Housing Coalition. 2004. “America’s Neighbors: The Affordable Housing Crisis and the People It Affects.” Washington, D.C.: National Low Income Housing Coalition (February). Available at: http://www.nlihc.org/sites/default/files/neighbors.pdf (accessed October 1, 2015).
  39. ↵
    National Research Council. 2014. The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences. Committee on Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration, Jeremy Travis, Bruce Western, and Steve Redburn, eds. Committee on Law and Justice, Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Education. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press.
  40. Navarro, Mireya. 2013. “227,000 Names on List Vie for Rare Vacancies in City’s Public Housing.” New York Times, July 24.
  41. ↵
    Nelson, Marta, Perry Deess, and Charlotte Allen. 1999. “The First Month Out: Post-Incarceration Experiences in New York City.” New York: Vera Institute of Justice.
  42. ↵
    1. Pager, Devah
    . 2003. “The Mark of a Criminal Record.” American Journal of Sociology 108(5, March): 937–75.
    OpenUrlCrossRef
  43. ↵
    Pager, Devah. 2007. Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  44. ↵
    1. Petersilia, Joan
    . 1999. “Parole and Prisoner Reentry in the United States.” Crime and Justice 26: 479–529.
    OpenUrlCrossRef
  45. ↵
    Petersilia, Joan. 2000. “When Prisoners Return to the Community: Political, Economic, and Social Consequences.” Sentencing and Corrections Issues for the 21st Century (November).
  46. ↵
    Petersilia, Joan. 2003. When Prisoners Come Home: Parole and Prisoner Reentry. New York: Oxford University Press.
  47. ↵
    1. Piliavin, Irving,
    2. Bradley R. Entner Wright,
    3. Robert D. Mare, and
    4. Alex H. Westerfelt
    . 1996. “Exits from and Returns to Homelessness.” Social Service Review 70: 33–57.
    OpenUrlCrossRef
  48. ↵
    1. Pinard, Michael
    . 2010. “Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions: Confronting Issues of Race and Dignity.” New York University Law Review 85: 457–534.
    OpenUrlWeb of Science
  49. ↵
    1. Reid, Kristen W.,
    2. Eric Vittinghoff, and
    3. Margot B. Kushel
    . 2008. “Association Between the Level of Housing Instability, Economic Standing, and Health Care Access: A Meta-Regression.” Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 19(4): 1212–28.
    OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedWeb of Science
  50. ↵
    1. Roman, Caterina Gouvis, and
    2. Jeremy Travis
    . 2006. “Where Will I Sleep Tomorrow? Housing, Homelessness, and the Returning Prisoner.” Housing Policy Debate 17(2): 389–418.
    OpenUrlCrossRef
  51. ↵
    Rossi, Peter H. 1989. Down and Out in America: The Origins of Homelessness. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  52. ↵
    Rubinstein, Gwen, and Debbie Mukamal. 2002. “Welfare and Housing—Denial of Benefits to Drug Offenders.” In Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment, edited by Marc Mauer and Meda Chesney-Lind. New York: New Press.
  53. ↵
    Sampson, Robert J., and John H. Laub. 1993. Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points Through Life. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
  54. ↵
    1. Shaw, Mary
    . 2004. “Housing and Public Health.” Annual Review of Public Health 25: 397–418.
    OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedWeb of Science
  55. ↵
    1. Shlay, Anne B., and
    2. Peter H. Rossi
    . 1992. “Social Science Research and Contemporary Studies of Homelessness.” Annual Review of Sociology 18: 129–60.
    OpenUrlCrossRefWeb of Science
  56. ↵
    Snow, David A., and Leon Anderson. 1993. Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  57. ↵
    1. Snow, David A.,
    2. Susan G. Baker, and
    3. Leon Anderson
    . 1989. “Criminality and Homeless Men: An Empirical Assessment.” Social Problems 36: 532.
    OpenUrlCrossRef
  58. ↵
    Solomon, Amy L., Caterina Gouvis, and Michelle Waul. 2001. “Summary of Focus Group with Ex-Prisoners in the District: Ingredients for Successful Reintegration.” Working Paper. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute.
  59. ↵
    1. Steele, Fiona
    . 2008. “Multilevel Models for Longitudinal Data.” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A 171(1): 5–19.
    OpenUrlWeb of Science
  60. ↵
    Travis, Jeremy. 2003. “Invisible Punishment: An Instrument of Social Exclusion.” In Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment, edited by Marc Mauer and Meda Chesney-Lind. New York: New Press.
  61. ↵
    Travis, Jeremy. 2005. But They All Come Back: Facing the Challenges of Prisoner Reentry. New York: Urban Institute Press.
  62. ↵
    Uggen, Christopher, Jeff Manza, and Angela Behrens. 2003. “Stigma, Role Transition, and the Civic Reintegration of Convicted Felons.” In After Crime and Punishment: Ex-offender Reintegration and Desistance from Crime, edited by Shadd Maruna and Russ Immarigeon. New York: State University of New York Press.
  63. ↵
    U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Community Planning and Development. 2010. The 2009 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress. Washington: HUD (June). Available at: http://www.huduser.org/portal/publications/pdf/5thHomelessAssessmentReport.pdf (accessed October 1, 2015).
  64. ↵
    1. Van Olphen, Juliana,
    2. Nicholas Freudenberg,
    3. Princess Fortin, and
    4. Sandro Galea
    . 2006. “Community Reentry: Perceptions of People with Substance Use Problems Returning Home from New York City Jails.” Journal of Urban Health 83(3): 372–81.
    OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedWeb of Science
  65. ↵
    1. Visher, Christy A., and
    2. Jeremy Travis
    . 2003. “Transitions from Prison to Community : Understanding Individual Pathways.” Annual Review of Sociology 29(1, August): 89–113.
    OpenUrlCrossRefWeb of Science
  66. ↵
    1. Wakefield, Sara, and
    2. Christopher Uggen
    . 2010. “Incarceration and Stratification.” Annual Review of Sociology 36(1, June): 387–406.
    OpenUrlCrossRefWeb of Science
  67. ↵
    West, Heather C., William J. Sabol, and Sarah J. Greenman. 2010. “Prisoners in 2009.” Washington: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Office of Justice Programs.
  68. ↵
    1. Western, Bruce,
    2. Jeffrey R. Kling, and
    3. David F. Weiman
    . 2001. “The Labor Market Consequences of Incarceration.” Crime and Delinquency 47: 410–27.
    OpenUrlCrossRefWeb of Science
  69. ↵
    1. Wong, Yin-ling I., and
    2. Irving Piliavin
    . 1997. “A Dynamic Analysis of Homeless-Domicile Transitions.” Social Problems 44: 408–23.
    OpenUrlCrossRef
  70. ↵
    Wright, James D., Amy M. Donley, and Kevin F. Gotham. 2008. “Housing Policy, the Low-Income Housing Crisis, and the Problem of Homelessness.” In Homelessness in America, vol. 2, Causes of Homelessness, edited by Robert H. McNamara. New York: Praeger.
  71. ↵
    Wright, James D., Beth A. Rubin, and Joel A. Devine. 1998. Beside the Golden Door: Policy, Politics, and the Homeless. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
PreviousNext
Back to top

In this issue

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences: 1 (2)
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
Vol. 1, Issue 2
1 Nov 2015
  • Table of Contents
  • Table of Contents (PDF)
  • Cover (PDF)
  • Index by author
Print
Download PDF
Email Article

Thank you for your interest in spreading the word on RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences.

NOTE: We only request your email address so that the person you are recommending the page to knows that you wanted them to see it, and that it is not junk mail. We do not capture any email address.

Enter multiple addresses on separate lines or separate them with commas.
Homelessness and Housing Insecurity Among Former Prisoners
(Your Name) has sent you a message from RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
(Your Name) thought you would like to see the RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences web site.
CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.
2 + 12 =
Solve this simple math problem and enter the result. E.g. for 1+3, enter 4.
Citation Tools
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

Citation Manager Formats

  • BibTeX
  • Bookends
  • EasyBib
  • EndNote (tagged)
  • EndNote 8 (xml)
  • Medlars
  • Mendeley
  • Papers
  • RefWorks Tagged
  • Ref Manager
  • RIS
  • Zotero
Share
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
del.icio.us logo Twitter logo Facebook logo Mendeley logo
  • Tweet Widget
  • Facebook Like
  • Google Plus One

Jump to section

  • 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
  • PDF

Related Articles

  • No related articles found.
  • Google Scholar

Cited By...

  • Study retention as bias reduction in a hard-to-reach population
  • Google Scholar

More in this TOC Section

  • Mass Incarceration, Parental Imprisonment, and the Great Recession: Intergenerational Sources of Severe Deprivation in America
  • Severe Deprivation and System Inclusion Among Children of Incarcerated Parents in the United States After the Great Recession
Show more IV. The Prison as Poverty Institution

Similar Articles

Keywords

  • reentry
  • homelessness
  • housing instability
  • intermediate sanctions

© 2025 RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Powered by HighWire