Departmental Papers (SPP)
Papers from 2011
PREFACE: Homelessness and Housing Exclusion in Europe: Challenges and Opportunities for Research and Policy, Dennis P. Culhane and Thomas Byrne
Prevalence and Risk of Homelessness among US Veterans: A Multisite Investigation, Jamison Fargo, Stephen Metraux, Thomas Byrne, Ellen Munley, Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, Harlan Jones, George Sheldon, and Dennis P. Culhane
Middle-Income Families in the Economic Downturn: Challenges and Management Strategies over Time, Roberta R. Iversen, Laura Napolitano, and Frank F. Furstenberg
Papers from 2010
Nonprofit Watchdogs: Do They Serve the Average Donor?, Ram A. Cnaan, Kathleen Jones, Allison Dickin, and Michele Salomon
Motivations and Benefits of Student Volunteering: Comparing Regular, Occasional, and Non-Volunteers in Five Countries, Ram A. Cnaan, Karen A. Smith, Kirsten Holmes, Debbie Haski-Leventhal, Femida Handy, and Jeffrey L. Brudney
The 2009 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report to Congress, Alvaro Cortes, Jill Khadduri, Larry Buron, and Dennis P. Culhane
Ending Chronic Homelessness: Cost-Effective Opportunities for Interagency Collaboration, Dennis P. Culhane and Thomas Byrne
Ending Family Homelessness in Massachusetts: A New Approach for the Emergency Assistance Program, Dennis P. Culhane and Thomas Byrne
Connecting the Dots: The Promise of Integrated Data Systems for Policy Analysis and Systems Reform, Dennis P. Culhane, John Fantuzzo, Heather L. Rouse, Vicky Tam, and Jonathan Lukens
The Age Structure of Contemporary Homelessness: Risk Period or Cohort Effect?, Dennis P. Culhane, Stephen Metraux, and Jay Bainbridge
Behavioral health services use among heads of homeless and housed poor families, Jung Min Park, Stephen Metraux, and Dennis P. Culhane
Papers from 2009
The 2008 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report to Congress, Dennis P. Culhane, Jill Khadduri, Alvaro Cortes, and Larry Buron
Papers from 2008
The Limits of Citizenship: Rights of Prisoners and ex-Prisoners in USA, Ram A. Cnaan, Jeffrey N. Draine, Beverly Frazier, and Jill W. Sinha
The Cost of Homelessness: A Perspective from the United States, Dennis P. Culhane
Accountability, Cost-Effectiveness, and Program Performance: Progress Since 1998, Dennis P. Culhane, Kennen S. Gross, Wayne D. Parker, Barbara Poppe, and Ezra Sykes
The 2007 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report to Congress, Dennis P. Culhane, Jill Khadduri, Alvaro Cortes, Larry Buron, and Steve Poulin
Rearranging the Deck Chairs or Reallocating the Lifeboats?: Homelessness Assistance and Its Alternatives, Dennis P. Culhane and Stephen Metraux
The Interchangeability of Paid Staff and Volunteers in Nonprofit Organizations, Femida Handy, Laurie Mook, and Jack Quarter
Does Screening in the Emergency Department Hurt or Help Victims of Intimate Partner Violence?, Debra Hourey, Nadine Kaslow, Robin S. Kemball, Louise A. McNutt, Catherine Cerulli, Helen Strauss, Eli Rosenberg, Chengxing Lu, and Karin V. Rhodes
Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans: What Might a Sociological Embeddedness Perspective Offer Disaster Research and Planning?, Roberta R. Iversen and Annie Laurie Armstrong
Beyond Discrimination: Understanding African American Inequality in the Twenty-First Century, Michael B. Katz and Mark J. Stern
The Second Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress, Jill Khadduri, Dennis P. Culhane, Larry Buron, Alvaro Cortes, Mary Joel Holin, and Stephen Poulin
The 2007 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress, Jill Khadduri, Dennis P. Culhane, Alvaro Cortes, Larry Buron, and Stephen Poulin
Characteristics of Persons With Severe Mental Illness Who Have Been Incarcerated for Murder, Jason C. Matejkowski, Phyllis L. Solomon, and Sara W. Cullen
Mood disorders in the emergency department: the challenge of linking patients to appropriate services, Karin V. Rhodes
Review of Glenn Firebaugh, The New Geography of Global Income Inequality, Mark J. Stern
Nonprice Barriers to Ambulatory Care After an Emergency Department Visit, Teri L. Vieth and Karin V. Rhodes
Papers from 2007
Testing a Typology of Family Homelessness Based on Patterns of Public Shelter Utilization in Four U.S. Jurisdictions: Implications for Policy and Program Planning, Dennis P. Culhane, Stephen Metraux, Jung Min Park, Maryanne Schretzman, and Jesse Valente
Homelessness and Child Welfare Services in New York City: Exploring Trends and Opportunites for Improving Outcomes for Children and Youth, Dennis P. Culhane and Jung Min Park
When to Use Volunteer Labor Resources? An Organizational Analysis for Nonprofit Management, Femida Handy and Jeffrey L. Brudney
The Role of Social Anxiety in Volunteering, Femida Handy and Ram A. Cnaan
The Moral High Ground: Differentials Among Executive Directors of Canadian Nonprofits, Femida Handy, Laurie Mook, Jorge Ginieniewicz, and Jack Quarter
To profit or not to profit: Women entrepreneurs in India, Femida Handy, Bhagyashree Ranade, and Meenaz Kassam
Why Social Work Needs Mapping, Amy E. Hillier
Review of Dan Zuberi, Differences That Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada, Roberta R. Iversen
Parents' Work, Depressive Symptoms, Children, and Family Economic Mobility: What Can Ethnography Tell Us?, Roberta R. Iversen and Annie Laurie Armstrong
The Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress, Jill Khadduri, Dennis P. Culhane, Mary Joel Holin, Larry Buron, Alvaro Cortes, and Stephen Poulin
Employing community data to investigate social and structural dimensions of urban neighborhoods: An early childhood education example, Christine P. McWayne, Paul A. McDermott, John Fantuzzo, and Dennis P. Culhane
Reporting Volunteer Labour at the Organizational Level: A Study of Canadian Nonprofits, Laurie Mook, Femida Handy, and Jack Quarter
Promising Practices in Out-of-School Time Professional Development, Nancy Peter
Child Injury Risks are Close to Home: Parent Psychosocial Factors Associated with Child Safety, Karin V. Rhodes and Theodore J. Iwashyna
Characterizing Emergency Department Discussions about Depression, Karin V. Rhodes, Hallie M. Kushner, Joanna Bisgaier, and Elizabeth Prenoveau
Crossing Cultural Barriers in Research Interviewing, Roberta G. Sands, Joretha N. Bourjolly, and Dorit Roer-Strier
Gender Differences in the Construction of Spirituality, Work, Learning, and Community by Baalei Teshuvah, Roberta G. Sands, Robyn Rapoport Spero, and Rivka Ausubel Danzig
Adolescent Risk Behaviors and Religion: Findings from a National Study, Jill W. Sinha, Ram A. Cnaan, and Richard W. Gelles
Rapid Assessment of Existing HIV Prevention Programming in a Community Mental Health Center, Phyllis L. Solomon, Julie A. Tennille, David Lipsitt, Ellen Plumb, David Metzger, and Michael Blank
Intervention on Behalf of Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence: Assessment of Support in a Diverse Community-based Sample, Susan B. Sorenson
We've Got a Gun?: Comparing Reports of Adolescents and their Parents about Household Firearms, Susan B. Sorenson and Philip J. Cook
Bridging the Gap: Using Microsociological Theory to Understand How Expressed Emotion Predicts Clinical Outcomes, Victoria Stanhope and Phyllis L. Solomon
Review of Hannah Joyner, From Pity to Pride: Growing up Deaf in the Old South, Mark J. Stern
Annotated Bibliography of Out-of-School Time Professional Development Resources, Adrienne Whaley, Lisa Colby, and Nancy Peter
Papers from 2006
Practice What You Preach? The Role of Rural NGOs in Women's Empowerment, Femida Handy and Meenaz Kassam
Recent Incarceration History Among a Sheltered Homeless Population, Stephen Metraux and Dennis P. Culhane
The Future of Emergency Medicine Public Health Research, Karin V. Rhodes and Daniel A. Pollock
Interview Shocks and Shockwaves, Roberta G. Sands and Michal Krumer-Nevo
The Direction of Denominational Switching in Judaism, Roberta G. Sands, Steven C. Marcus, and Rivka A. Danzig
Judgments About Intimate Partner Violence: A Statewide Survey About Immigrants, Susan B. Sorenson
Predicting Staying In or Leaving Permanent Supportive Housing That Serves Homeless People with Serious Mental Illness, Yin-Ling I. Wong, Trevor R. Hadley, Dennis P. Culhane, Stephen R. Poulin, Morris R. Davis, Brian A. Cirksey, and James L. Brown
Neighborhood Experiences and Community Integration: Perspectives from Mental Health Consumers and Providers, Yin-Ling I. Wong, Diane Metzendorf, and So-Young Min
Homeless Service Delivery in the Context of Continuum of Care, Yin-Ling I. Wong, Jung Min Park, and Howard Nemon
Papers from 2005
Developing a Practical Forecasting Screener for Domestic Violence Incidents, Richard A. Berk, Yan He, and Susan B. Sorenson
Review of Peter J. Wosh, Covenant House: Journey of a Faith-based Charity, Ram A. Cnaan
The Gender Gap among Teen Survey Respondents: Why are Boys more Likely to Report a Gun in the Home than Girls?, Philip J. Cook and Susan B. Sorenson
Global Change and Indicators of Social Development, Richard J. Estes
The Demand for Volunteer Labor: A Study of Hospital Volunteers, Femida Handy and Narasimhan Srinivasan
Integrating and Distributing Administrative Data to Support Community Change, Amy E. Hillier and Dennis P. Culhane
How Do Tangible Supports Impact the Breast Cancer Experience?, Karen B. Hirschman and Joretha N. Bourjolly
Assessment and Social Construction: Conflict or Co-Creation?, Roberta R. Iversen, Kenneth J. Gergen, and Robert P. Fairbanks II
Women and the Paradox of Inequality in the Twentieth Century, Michael B. Katz, Mark J. Stern, and Jamie J. Fader
Family Homelessness: Background Research Findings and Policy Options, Mary Beth Shinn, Debra R. Rog, and Dennis P. Culhane
Falling Far from the Tree: Transitions to Adulthood and the Social History of Twentieth-Century America, Jordan Stanger-Ross, Christina Collins, and Mark J. Stern
Community-based Norms about Intimate Partner Violence: Putting Attributions of Fault and Responsibility into Context, Catherine A. Taylor and Susan B. Sorenson
Recreational Gun Use by California Adolescents, Katherine A. Vittes and Susan B. Sorenson
Does Social Work Education Have an Impact on Social Policy Preferences? A Three-Cohort Study, Idit Weiss, John Gal, and Ram A. Cnaan
Papers from 2004
Youth and Religion: The Gameboy Generation Goes to "Church", Ram A. Cnaan, Richard J. Gelles, and Jill W. Sinha
Congregations as Social Service Providers: Services, Capacity, Culture, and Organizational Behavior, Ram A. Cnaan, Jill W. Sinha, and Charlene C. McGrew
Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS); Data and Technical Standards Final Notice, United States Government and Dennis P. Culhane
Valuing Volunteers: An Economic Evaluation of the Net Benefits of Hospital Volunteers, Femida Handy and Narasimhan Srinivasan
The Logic of Sanctioning Welfare Recipients: An Empirical Assessment, Yeheskel Hasenfeld, Toorjo Ghose, and Kandyce Larson
Homeless Shelter Use and Reincarceration Following Prison Release, Stephen Metraux and Dennis P. Culhane
Child Welfare Involvement Among Children in Homeless Families, Jung Min Park, Stephen Metraux, Gabriel Broadbar, and Dennis P. Culhane
Public Shelter Admission among Young Adults with Child Welfare Histories by Type of Service and Type of Exit, Jung Min Park, Stephen Metraux, Gabriel Broadbar, and Dennis P. Culhane
Resuscitating the Physician-Patient Relationship: Emergency Department Communication in an Academic Medical Center, Karin V. Rhodes, Teri Vieth, Theresa He, Annette Miller, David S. Howes, Olivia Bailey, James Walter, Richard Frankel, and Wendy Levinson
An Assessment of the Housing Needs of Persons with HIV/AIDS: New York City Eligible Metropolitan Statistica Area, Final Report, Virginia Shubert, Hillary Botein, Suzanne Wagner, Stephen R. Poulin, and Dennis P. Culhane
Utilization of Mental Health Services by Low-Income Pregnant and Postpartum Women on Medical Assistance, Dayoung Song, Roberta G. Sands, and Yin-Ling I. Wong
Adolescents and Firearms: A California Statewide Survey, Susan B. Sorenson and Katherine A. Vittes
Weapons in the Lives of Battered Women, Susan B. Sorenson and Douglas J. Wiebe
Social Work Education as Professional Socialization: A Study of the Impact of Social Work Education Upon Students's Professional Preferences, Idit Weiss, John Gal, and Ram A. Cnaan
Papers from 2003
The Legalization of Abortion and Subsequent Youth Homicide: A Time Series Analysis, Richard A. Berk, Susan B. Sorenson, Douglas J. Weib, and Dawn M. Upchurch
African-American and White Women’s Appraisal of their Breast Cancer, Joretha N. Bourjolly, Karen B. Hirschman, and Frances K. Barg
Review of Hillel Schmid, Neighborhood Self-Management: Experiments in Civil Society, Ram A. Cnaan
The Impact of Welfare Reform on Public Shelter Utilization in Philadelphia: A Time-Series Analysis, Dennis P. Culhane, Stephen R. Poulin, Lorlene M. Hoyt, and Stephen Metraux
Using Petitions to Teach Slavery, Damon W. Freeman
Factors Influencing Women Entrepreneurs of NGOs in India, Femida Handy, Meenaz Kassam, and Shree Ranade
Closing the Gap: Housing (un)Affordability in Philadelphia, Amy E. Hillier and Dennis P. Culhane
Developing Educational Groups in Social Work Practice, Roberta G. Sands and Phyllis L. Solomon
Buying a Handgun for Someone Else: Firearm Dealer Willingness to Sell, Susan B. Sorenson
Personal Awareness of Domestic Violence: Implications for Health Care Providers, Susan B. Sorenson and Catherine A. Taylor
High School Students' Attitudes about Firearms Policies, Katherine A. Vittes, Susan B. Sorenson, and Dennis Gilbert