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This paper presents a review of research findings on the nexus between incarceration and homelessness. The most important ways of explaining the connections between these two problems have been shown. The article also focuses on presenting the state of knowledge about the links between homelessness and incarceration in Poland. Existing gaps in this area have also been marked.
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Lutze, F. E., Rosky, J. W., Hamilton, Z. K. (2014). Homelessness and reentry: A multisite outcome evaluation of Washington State’s reentry housing program for high risk offenders. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 41(4), 471-491. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093854813510164
Mayock, P., Sheridan, S. (2013). ‘At Home’ in Prison? Women and the Homelessness-Incarceration Nexus. Irish Probation Journal,10, 118-140. https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.35-2780
Moschion, J., Johnson, G. (2019). Homelessness and incarceration: A reciprocal relationship?. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 35, 855-887. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-019-09407-y
Mostowska, M. (2020). Metaphors and evidence. Producing numbers in national homelessness counts. Housing. Theory and Society, 37(3), 339-356.
Ogólnopolskie badania liczby osób bezdomnych – Edycja 2019. Ministerstwo Rodziny, Pracy i Polityki Społecznej. https://www.gov.pl/web/rodzina/wyniki-ogolnopolskiego-badania-liczby-osob-bezdomnych-edycja-2019
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Schroeder, S.E., Drysdale, K., Lafferty, L., Baldry, E., Marshall, A.D., Higgs, P., Dietze, P., Stoove, M. and Treloar, C., (2022). “It’s a revolving door”: Ego-depletion among prisoners with injecting drug use histories as a barrier to post-release success. International Journal of Drug Policy, 101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103571
Shrubb, R. (2020). Epidemia bezdomności w Wielkiej Brytanii–radykalne przyczyny wymagają radykalnych rozwiązań. Praca Socjalna, 35, 13-34. https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0014.1172
Szczepanik, R. (2015). Stawanie się recydywistą. Kariery instytucjonalne osób powracających do przestępczości. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego.
Tsai, J., Gu, X. (2019). Homelessness among immigrants in the United States: rates, correlates, and differences compared with native-born adults. Public Health, 168, 107-116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2018.12.017
Tsai J., Rosenheck R. A. (2012). Incarceration among chronically homeless adults: Clinical correlates and outcomes. Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice, 12, 307-324. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1080/15228932.2012.695653
Urbaniak, A. (2017). Kryminalne zagadki statystyk: fakty i mity w społecznym postrzeganiu rozmiarów przestępczości. Edukacja dla Bezpieczeństwa, 3(36), 91-100.
Walker, A., Hempel, L., Unnithan, N. P., Pogrebin, M. R. (2014). Parole reentry and social capital: The centrality of homelessness. Journal of Poverty, 18(3), 315-334. https://doi.org/10.1080/10875549.2014.923962
Western, B., Braga, A., Hureau, D., Sirois, C. (2016). Study retention as bias reduction in a hard-to-reach population. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(20), 5477-5485. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1604138113
Williams, K., Poyser, J., Hopkins, K. (2012). Accommodation, homelessness and reoffending of prisoners: Results from the Surveying Prisoner Crime Reduction (SPCR) survey. Ministry of Justice Research Summary, 3(12). http://www.antoniocasella.eu/nume/Williams_homelessness_march12.pdf
Wygnańska, J. (2016). Podwójna diagnoza wśród ludzi chronicznie bezdomnych korzystających z warszawskich placówek dla bezdomnych. Fundacja Ius Medicinae.