Rough Living
Subtitle: Surviving Violence and Homelessness
Publisher: UTS ePRESS
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Broadway
Number of pages: 70
ISBN-13: 9781863654258
Subjects: Australia
Description: Rough Living: Surviving Violence and Homelessness reveals the ways in which intense chains of disadvantage, incorporating homelessness, are triggered by very early experiences of violence. Drawing on biographic interviews with six men and six women, the book bears witness not only to horrendous repeated experiences of physical and sexual violence, but discusses what may be understood as related multi-dimensional vulnerability in areas such as physical and mental health, education, employment and social connectedness. A picture of the long-term cycles of violent victimisation and homelessness, and their compounding traumatising effects, are made clear and the importance of trauma-informed service delivery is outlined as a key way forward.
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