Negative Bias Towards Homelessness

The research paper addresses the selected community members of Great Falls, MT and the rates of incarceration and homelessness, as well as the affects of their long term spiritual and developmental state. Homelessness and incarceration rates are typically linked to one another in several aspects incliding the increasing numbers of people leaving carceral institations facing the increased risk of homelsessness, and how persons experiencing homelessness are vulnerable to incarceration. This paper will review efforts made to adress reentry issues and review research resunts on studies of homelessness among prison and jail populations and research on incarceration among people who are homeless. After reviewing common barriers to housing for people

In this article, Jennifer Mosley and Colleen Grogan, professors at The University of Chicago, concludes that the more public participation in administrative decision making in different urban areas is an important target in majority of public organizations. The author states that many public agencies develop different strategies on who should be able to participate in open decision making. The strategies determined how they will prevent different type of biases. Often leaders of the nonprofit organizations are asked to serve as representatives of the community in a variety of participatory processes. They came up with something called mixed-methods. Mixed-methods are used in order to address whether residents believe nonprofit

The state of Hawaii has approximately 8,000 homeless people as of 2016. Have you ever imagined yourself being in that position? Homelessness is a serious problem in Hawaii since we have the highest rate in the nation per capita of homeless. In order for our economy to be fixed, specifically Downtown Honolulu, land, time, space, and especially money are things state officials should consider because rather money being put to Ala Moana, Honolulu Rail Transit, and the new International Market Place, it should be used towards homeless.

A 1990 study of public shelter use in New York City and Philadelphia, PA showed the effects of homelessness on minorities; especially African American families. In both cities almost 7% of black children have been in the shelter system between 1990 and 1992. This percentage is much higher than 1% of White children in the shelter system during the same time period. In addition to being homeless these children often suffer from health problems. Common health problems in homeless children include upper respiratory tract infections, scabies, lice, tooth decay, ear infections, skin infections, diaper rash and conjunctivitis.

Homeless people face many stereotypes. For example, in the article, “Beyond Stigma & Stereotypes”, it shows how the general public views homeless people, and how they misunderstand them. It also explains that many people aren’t aware of the issues of homeless people, and it is often stereotyped that they are criminals, plagued with drugs and illnesses. In the article it is stated, “In addition there is a lot of misunderstanding by the general public about who is homeless and the causes for homelessness” (Beyond). This quote explains how most people aren’t aware of how and why people are homeless.

I believe many students do not like group assignments because for the most part a person or two do not pull their wait leaving the leader doing most of the work. Other problems includes having to deal with various personalities, the work distribution, trying to communicate with each other, feeling vulnerable, and the way everyone gets the same grade because it is a group effort. So the lazy people get the same grade as the people who worked hard.

Based on my survey the stereotypes of homeless are based on their gender and education level. According to Oxford Dictionaries, homeless is a person without a home and therefore typically living on the streets (Oxford Dictionary). People that got surveyed around the mall are between the age range of 17 to 69. Women tend to have more sympathy, while men are straight forward towards the topic of homeless.

The most influential person in an individual life happens to be the parents. Parents teach their children expected behavior, boundaries, and rules. Although, children are always more attentive to their parent’s behavior; something parents quite often do not realize. If the parents walk does not match their talk their; kids will not take in consideration what they have been taught. Kids always have that mentality of “if you did it, I will do it too because it is okay.” Children learn more from their parents character than their teachings; demonstrating that actions speak louder than words. Clearly, what individuals are exposed in their adolescents shapes their mentality affecting how they perceive situations and people. A lot of things

Brooke’s Presentation I really enjoyed Brooke’s presentation today in class. My sister watches FuseyTube too, so I’ve seen this video before. When it first came out and my sister saw it, she showed it to everyone in the house to tell us just how horrible people are out there. Most people think they are better than others because they many have more money.

Lazy, drug user, alcoholic, and worthless are many of the stereotypes that can be ascribed to homeless people. As heartbreaking as it is, many want to work and not all homeless people are subjected to drug use. Moreover, are they worthless. The stigma attached to homeless persons has continued from the earliest days of American history. This issue of homelessness prompted me to make this my broad topic, while figuring out what is it that we need to improve on, in order to help the homeless. My goal is to open many people's eyes on what homeless men endure, but what factors could we, service providers, implement to better help them. We love to hear about women who have been victims of domestic violence, single motherhood, abused children, veterans, and abused puppies. Which are all important but what about the homeless men? I want to be able to give one viewpoints from a homeless man’s standpoint, which could alter the way we not only help them, but view them.

Sure enough, they were not on drugs or alcohol. They were a group of friends they made amongst each other, and though not blood-related, they called themselves a family. This particular group of homeless people completely brightened my mood; I went from scared and depressed by what I was seeing, to interested and eager to learn about why they were so happy, even though they were at low points in their lives. Even though I am not a religious person, I respected their daily ritual and joined their prayer circle after I found out that praying was indeed what they were doing those times I watched them. I asked an older woman of the group about their positive attitudes.

Predominantly, media reports and academic research that examine the topic of homelessness and violence often focus on the apparent criminal involvement of the homeless individual and/or community. However, what is not being reported or examined are the numerous hate crimes and violent acts against the homeless community, who are more likely to be victims of violence and hate crimes than individuals belonging to the housed community. Author Skalstad (2010) defines hate crimes as a bias crime, and is a criminal offense committed against a person, property, or society that is motivated in whole or in part by the offender biases. These negative biases are the consequences of the filtered information and misrepresentation of homeless individuals

I have always had strong religious and political beliefs. I believe that this comes from being raised by my parents and my grandparents. My grandfather took care of me when I was born until I went to school. He is a staunch conservative and is very outspoken about his beliefs and political opinions. Both of my parents and all of my grandparents are very hard working Americans. I am proud to come from a family of hard workers. I think this influenced how I have always felt about homeless people and people that are on welfare. I have always seen my family go to work every day, save money, and spend their money wisely. This is why I believe that I felt like people that were homeless or on welfare were lazy. It always made me mad when I was at the store and people that were spending welfare money seemed to have better groceries than we did. And if I saw people on television that were homeless I always felt like they were just too lazy to get a job. As I've gotten a little older, and hopefully a little more mature, I have come to realize that sometimes there are actually people that need a little help now and

All my hypotheses were not supported by the data and did not match the literature that I read. There might have been social desirability effect with the participants. People may not want to admit that they do not want a homeless shelter close to their homes. They do not want to look like a bad person to the surveyor. Since I failed to show any association between my variables I would try to improve my project. I would strengthen my independent variables and add more questions on how people feel about the homeless and policies for the homeless. For the future project I would increase the sample size. I would also try to figure out how to reduce social desirability. I would also need funding if I would take this project further.

Strength. There are health centers for homeless to aid in not only their health, but their outreach programs set them up in the right direction. Like in this case study, the center assisted him in signing up for health insurance and food benefits. Some programs, give homeless the psychological help.