Article
Recent Incarceration History Among a Sheltered Homeless Population
Departmental Papers (SPP)
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
7-1-2006
Abstract
This study examined incarceration histories and shelter use patterns of 7,022 persons staying in public shelters in New York City. Through matching administrative shelter records with data on releases from New York State prisons and New York City jails, 23.1% of a point-prevalent shelter population was identified as having had an incarceration within the previous two-year period. Persons entering shelter following a jail episode (17.0%) exhibited different shelter stay patterns than those having exited a prison episode (7.7%), leading to the conclusion that different dynamics predominate and different interventions are called for in preventing homelessness among persons released from jail and from prison.
Keywords
- homelessness,
- prison,
- jail,
- incarceration,
- reentry,
- public shelters
Citation Information
Stephen Metraux and Dennis P. Culhane. "Recent Incarceration History Among a Sheltered Homeless Population" (2006) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/dennis_culhane/13/
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011128705283565