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GCI Working Paper Series - Health & Human Development
Marketing Safe Sex: The
Politics of Sexuality, Race and Class in San Francisco, 1983-1991
Jennifer Brier
Assistant Professor, Gender and Women's Studies and History
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago
Great Cities Institute Faculty Scholar 2005 - 2006
May 2006
GCP-06-06
This paper explores the growth of two AIDS organizations in
San Francisco: the San Francisco AIDS Foundation started in 1982, the
largest AIDS service organization in the city and one of the largest
in the nation, and the Third World Advisory Task Force (TWAATF), a community
based organization formed in 1985 to focus attention on AIDS in communities
of color to understand both the evolution of AIDS prevention work as
well as how that process elucidates the larger political landscape of
the 1980s.
PTSD in Children and
Adolescents
Tanya Anderson
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago
Great Cities Institute Faculty Fellow 2003-2004
November 2005
GCP-05-04
This paper reviews the history of PTSD, common symptomatology among
children and adolescents diagnosed with PTSD, issues in diagnosing PTSD
in children and adolescents, and lastly, trauma’s impact on development.
So Called Girl-on-Girl
Violence is Actually Adult-on-Girl Violence
Laurie Schaffner
Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Justice
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago
Great Cities Institute Faculty Fellow 2003-2004
November 2005
GCP-05-03
This research briefly explores the idea of girl-on-girl violence and
argues that young women are indeed experiencing violence, but not necessarily
from each other, as much as from the effects of racism, sexism, misogyny,
homophobia, and poverty.
Obstacles
to Employment of Women with Abusive Partners:
A Summary of Select Interview
Data
Stephanie Riger, Courtney Ahrents, Amy Blickenstaff, &
Jennifer Camacho
July 1999
GCP-99-1
A high proportion of women who receive welfare are abused by their intimate
partners. This paper examines the relationship among welfare receipt,
job readiness (i.e., employment history and training), employment resources
(i.e., transportation and child care) and intimate violence among women
in three domestic violence shelters. These women have few job skills
and many barriers to employment. Many reported long-term physical or
mental health problems, and most had young children at home, making
work difficult. Most of the women were unemployed and few had any kind
of job training. Their job histories consisted of intermittent work
for low pay in unskilled positions. Many of their abusers disrupted
the women’s work and school efforts, severely interfering with
their attempts at self-sufficiency.
Sheltering the Homeless:
Social Mobility Along the Continuum of Care
Charles Hoch & Lynette Bowden
November 1998
GCP-98-3
The homeless problem now enjoys a settled if marginal place in U.S.
domestic policy. Programs to treat and remedy the homeless problem have
also found acceptance integrated within a “continuum of care”.
In this essay we argue that current ideas about the problem and its
solution emphasize social mobility for the poor – a mobility that
existing empirical research does not support. The overemphasis on versions
of social dependence as the problem has encouraged the use of shelters
and social programs to change individual households rather than the
kind and amounts of low rent housing. We review current evidence on
shelter use to illustrate the limits on mobility. Providing supportive
housing to remedy the privations of the poor does make good sense, but
mainly if organized to strengthen social reciprocity among households
in affordable residential communities. This not only requires social
investment, but innovative design and use of affordable housing alternatives.
A brief case study provides an example.
Long-Term and Dangerous
Inmates:
Maximum Security Incarceration in the United States
Jess Maghan
December 1996
GCP-96-12
This paper addresses the issues the American prison system faces in
providing safe housing long- term violent offenders in maximum security
prisons. It also examines the current trends leading towards more and
higher security.
Improving Health
Care Efficiency: Strategic Approaches to Managing Care
for Asthma, Sickle
Cell Disease and Tuberculosis
Conference Proceedings
Elizabeth S. Hauser, Richard B. Warnecke, Susan Kerby, & Charles
Bright
April 1996
GCP-96-5
This report details the proceedings of a conference of local policy
makers, researchers, health care providers, and others to discuss the
effective and efficient health care management of sickle cell disease
(SCD), asthma and tuberculosis. The report is a summary of the panel
presentations, and the recommendations for policy development.
An
Economic Analysis of Guns, Crime and Gun Control
John F. McDonald
November 1995
GCP-95-4
The purpose of this paper is to formulate an economic model of guns,
crime, and gun control measures by using recent empirical research,
on firearms, violence, and gun control. The goal of this model is to
set out a simple set of equations that capture the primary features
of the policy debate. In addition, the model can be used to examine
the effects of changes in crime and gun control policy on crime rates
and gun ownership.
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