• Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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• v.48 no.1
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• pp.143-171
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• 2017

This study aims to examine experiences of homeless risk factor before becoming the homeless focusing during their childhood period. This study underscore their victimization experience in their previous life with life history interviews of 60 homeless adults. As a result, this study identified various individual homeless risk factors they experienced for a long time. Also the risk factors were interactive, amplified and affect becoming homeless in the end. Moreover the results proved different characteristics between the group according how often they experienced homeless risk factors. These results show that the individual factors emerging homeless also start early stages of their life and those were invincible misfortune and victimization. These findings suggest that the government policy and proactive intervention in order to prevent homeless in the early stage need to be established and have more concerns about high risk youth.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.58 no.3
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• pp.51-79
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• 2006

This study is to explore how the bondage of street homeless is made and what it implies. In order to do so, this study does participation-observation for the life of the homeless on the street and drop-in-center according to the ethno-graphic research tradition. Starting from the August of 2005, during the period of six months, we did a field study on the actual conditions of facilities for the homeless in the major parts in Seoul and collected the interview data through the interview-in-depth with 8 homeless people. Following the data-analysis procedures of Spradley(1979), we identified the main domains related to the factors for the bonding of street homeless. These domains show us how the homeless people who were left in the whole new world of homelessness just manage to tide over the crisis of identity and survival. The bondage of street homeless in the situation of street homelessness has been shown to have these following meanings: (1) the cultural significance as their second home, (2) the meaning of an alternative group to be admitted, (3) the maintenance of self-identity by way of distinction in the group. According to these, the self-identity of homeless is dual and, therefore, the meaning and interpretation of their relationship is also dual. This dualistic attitude comes from the process in which the homeless acquire the alliance-resource for the very survival and self-existence. The results of this study confirm that the homeless suffer from the lack of true relationship as well as resources. This study suggests that the supporting policies and services for the street homeless should be achieved qualitatively and integrated under a long range plan.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.40 no.2 s.107
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• pp.202-220
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• 2005

The substantial economic expansion of the 1990s with the dramatic changes in the provision of welfare services in America, including welfare services for the homeless, had unexpected and differential impacts on homelessness and poverty rates across the states. This paper examines a spatial pattern and process of homelessness by counties in Maryland, USA, considering the spatial differences in the composition of financial income and expenditure with sharply different poverty situation and welfare services. This social geographical approach of homelessness in Maryland focuses on the changing personal characteristics of homeless people and the relation=hip between homelessness and poverty; homelessness and the provision of welfare services such as shelter beds and emergency food providers. It makes a conclusion that there is an uneven sociospatial patterns of homelessness, relating to diverse poverty situation and provision of welfare services for the homeless by variable welfare policy among counties, Maryland.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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• v.47 no.4
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• pp.151-181
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• 2016

The objective of the study is to identify the sub-path of entry into homelessness of young men and enhance understanding them. In specific, homeless risk factors were extracted through their experiences, and based on which the entry paths into homelessness were drawn. The homeless young adults were divided into two groups of those who became homeless in their adolescence and those who entered into homelessness after 19 and their differences were analyzed. As a results, the most prominent differences between the two sub-groups included individual and social factors; most of those who entered homelessness after 19 had physical or psychological problems, while the other group showed delinquency factors in adolescence and adulthood. As for social factors, the former group experienced more financial damage in the process of achieving independence before being homeless, while the latter group had relatively more experience of physical and psychological damage such as bullying, harassment and violence before being homeless and financial frauds. As for investigating the causality relationship of key homeless risk factors by adding a variable of time, and based on which, a constant pattern of entry paths toward homelessness was drawn among each sub-group of homeless young adults. For policy on homelessness, it is required to develop according to the characteristics of homeless young adults. Especially, a specific approach is necessary for the different homeless pathways by sub-group. Furthermore, the study indicated that management and preemptive responses for various homeless risk factors that homeless young adults experienced throughout their lifetime could be important prevention policy against homelessness.

• Korea journal of population studies
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.235-275
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• 2005

이 글은 영국 홈리스에 대한 기존의 연구들을 검토하면서 홈리스의 세 가지 측면을 고찰한다. 첫째, 홈리스의 현황을 파악하기 위하여, 홈리스에 대한 서로 다른 정의와 홈리스 규모에 대한 여러 추정치를 비교 검토한다. 이 글은 또한 거리노숙자 규모를 측정하는 방법을 둘어싼 논쟁을 정리한다. 둘째, 홈리스의 원인을 분석한다. 홈리스의 원인을 규명하는데 다섯 가지 접근이 있다. 이 글은 이런 다섯 가지 접근들의 등장 배경, 내용, 그들 사이의 논쟁을 정리한다. 셋째, 영국 홈리스 정책을 고찰한다. 영국 홈리스 정책의 가장 중요한 특징은 홈리스에게 임시주택 혹은 안정적인 주택을 제공하는 것이다. 이 글은 1960년대 이후 영국 홈리스 정책의 변화 과정을 정리한다. 1997년 집권한 노동당 정부는 거리노숙자 정책을 정부의 최우선 정책과제들 가운데 하나로 설정하면서 거리노숙 문제의 해결에 적극적으로 개업했다. 그 결과 2000년 이후 거리노숙자가 대폭 줄어들었다. 현재 시행되고 있는 거리노숙자 정책은 주거지원 뿐만 아니라 다양한 차원의 지원을 포함한다. 홈리스 예방도 중요한 정책으로 다루어지고, 정보와 인간단체가 협력해서 거리노숙 문제를 해결하고자 한다. 거리노숙자를 줄이는데 성공한 영국의 거리노숙자 정책은 우리에게 많은 시사점을 줄 것이다.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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• v.40 no.2
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• pp.5-32
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is analyze the pattern and factors affecting the shelter exit and the patterns of homeless women in Korea. For this study, survey data were collected from 139 sheltered homeless women in Seoul in May of 2007. And respondent's exit time and exit pattern from the shelter were investigated through administration data of shelter in December of 2008. Life table analysis, Cox-proportional hazard analysis and competing risk survival analysis were employed in order to analyze data. The major findings were as follows. First, life table analysis shows that the exit ratio of homeless women started to fall sharply in 24 months from entry into shelter. Second, subjective health status, ratio of the homeless in social network and shelter entry with children affected the likelihood of shelter exit of homeless women. Third, age, subjective health status, depression and shelter entry with children affected the likelihood of positive exit. And ratio of the homeless in social network affected the likelihood of negative exit. Based on these findings, this study implied the introduction of case management service concerning individual shelter exit plan and policy for residential stability of homeless women.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.977-985
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• 2016

Homelessness is recognized as a problem of lack of housing as well as a social problem entangled by complex problems such as unemployment, family breakdown, social exclusion, health and suicide. In order to search for the specificity of any particular addiction type, we conducted a survey on the addiction and mental health status of the homeless. One of our findings indicated that alcoholism was mainly found more in older homeless; however, internet game and smart phone addiction was found more in younger generations. We hope that our study is meaningful as a typification work at the current stage because there have been few studies in Korea on homeless youth and no study about homeless people's addiction problems other than alcoholism.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.63 no.2
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• pp.31-56
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• 2011

This study was done to identify experience of young adults street homeless aged 20-30s by knowing meaning and structure of empirical phenomena for procedure that how young adults became street homeless according to bio-psycho-social change. Five young adults street homeless were recruited who were on the air of SBS program, 'That why we want to know: young hope on the road-Young adults homeless are increased(Saturday July 26, 2008)', and from monthly magazine published by Homeless Center in Seoul. And phenomenological and heuristic Human Becoming Research Methodology of Parse was applied in this study. Although young adults street homeless made an opportunity for job, the working poor made him street homeless who suffer from social stigma and exclusion, but he struggled for self-support with social care. The quality of life for young adult street homeless depends on the social care under human rights with the bio-psycho-social aspects.

• 한국노년학
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.1393-1407
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• 2010

This research was investigated how self-esteem and social support influenced depression for middle-aged and elderly male homeless people in Young-Deung-Po area. By using the sample of 150 male homeless people in Young-Deung-Po area, a multiple regression analysis was conducted for examining the impact of self-esteem and social support on depression. The findings of this study were following. First, self-esteem was a statistically significant indicator for depression. Specifically, the lower level of self-esteem was likely to increase the level of depression. However, social support as another key variable turned out not to be a significant predictor for depression. Second, age significantly impacted on depression for middle-aged and elderly homeless people. The older homeless was, the higher level of depression was indicated. The implication of these results was discussed.

• 보건세계
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• v.61 no.4
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• pp.32-35
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• 2013

어두운 밤길을 걸어가고 있을 때 누군가 손을 내밀어준다면 이보다 더 고마운 길잡이가 또 있을까! 한때는 든든한 가장으로, 건강한 사회구성원으로 열심히 일했을 우리 아버지들. 하지만 각박한 세상살이에 실직, 알코올 중독 등으로 하루아침에 거리로 내몰려 노숙인 신세로 불편한 삶을 이어가고 있다. 이들은 질병에도 쉽게 노출되고 있다. 이런 그들을 위해 따뜻한 손길을 건네는 곳이 있다. 노숙인의 결핵완치를 돕기 위한 "미소꿈터"가 바로 그곳이다.