The United Kingdom And The Implication For Women - 849 Words

Define and explore homelessness in the United Kingdom and the implication for women. Literature review Many historian and social scientist agree that the multi-dimensional and complex nature of homelessness has resulted in the relative difficulty in establishing a clear definition of homelessness. Accordingly, homelessness began to escape concise definition, due to the complexity and increasing diversification (Chamberlain and Johnson: 2001). However, globally the definition of homelessness states that the person is homeless if the individual lack an fix abode Caplow 1973 (cited in Watson and Austerbery, 1996) in stances whereby the individual carry limited properties or possession with them sleeping in the streets, park or on†¦show more content†¦As a result of this, defining homelessness in this way was deemed to be as incomprehensive and inadequacy and does not related true ethos of homelessness neither does it apply to all nations. Caplow 1973 defines homelessness as a condition of detachment from society, characterised by the absence or attenuation of the affiliate bond that links settle person to a network of interconnected social structure . For example In Britain, the Homeless Persons Act 1996 adopted a narrow definition of homelessness as a lack of suitable accommodation, either if the housing is not safe, or the individual is likely to be made homeless outside of their control. Which includes those in danger of losing their accommodation through violence which threatens them or their families. However Fitzpatrick et al. (2013) adopts a wider definition of homelessness which encompasses; people sleeping rough, single homelessness, statutory homelessness and hidden homelessness. Hidden homelessness may include sharing of overcrowded accommodation, sofa surfing or staying with friends. (Watson and Austerberry ,1996 ) uses the term ‘home to homelessness continuum’ to include women in hostels and emergency shelters and women who exit then return to homelessness. Although reference highlighted that the female sleeping rough population was