The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on January 6, 2010). Vita. Thesis advisor: Jeremy Taylor. "July 2009" Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1997. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-114). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1997. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-114). Also available on the Internet.

This study is an analysis of the housing and life careers of a group of single homeless people who became users and re-users (recurrent users) of a Reception facility in Aberdeen. It is an attempt to answer three major sets of questions which arose in respect of such a phenomenon. Firstly, who are the users of the Reception Centre, in particular, the Recurrent users? How far do they share a common social and economic background? Is this background linked to their present circumstances? Secondly, what are they doing in between visits to the Reception Centre, if they return? Is there a circuit of housing and other situations lived in by such people? If so, of what does it comprise? Thirdly, why do certain people 'adopt' such a life-style? Are they voluntarily on the move or is their mobility and use of the Reception Centre forced upon them by domestic, economic, social, health or other reasons? The study originated out of a problem which developed in a new initiative being taken in Aberdeen to address the needs of the single homeless. An Integrated Housing System was developed comprising a range of housing, hostel and other provision for the single homeless. The pivot of the scheme, the Reception Centre, designed to assess and refer people elsewhere in the system, soon developed a recurrent user population. People were not being re-settled. Further, the Recurrent users were denying other potential residents the benefits of the new system by using up the limited bed-space at the Reception Centre. The recurrent user problem was located theoretically in the wider sociological concern with recidivism in respect of ex-prisoners, ex-psychiatric patients and ex-alcoholic hostel dwellers. A new model of recidivism was seen to be needed and subsequently developed.

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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1942. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 42-43).

Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2007. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains v, 56 p. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 54-56).

This study is concerned with aspects of urban society in the Scottish city of Aberdeen in the second half of the seventeenth century. The principal aim is to examine the multi-faceted nature and workings of civic government, of the interlocking hierarchies of people and institutions which together formed an invisible web of authority and discipline in the town. The burgh's three main administrative and judicial bodies - the town council, the kirk session, and the justice of the peace court - are examined in some detail. Other matters discussed include the 1640's legacy of civil war, plague, and severe economic dislocation; the impact of eight years of Cromwellian occupation; the demographic and socio-economic structures of the urban community; aspects of secular and ecclesiastical politics; the continuing challenge to the established kirk posed by Catholic recusancy, and the new challenge posed by the advent of Quakerism in the town; patterns of office-holding and the characteristics of the urban elite; and poor relief and social control. The fundamental structures of urban society underwent no sudden transformation in these years, but neither did they remain static: far from obscuring the true dynamics of urban society, civic institutions remained vital social, economic, and political forums around which the forces of critical change coalesced, whether to be adopted, adapted, repulsed; or neutralised, but always in such a way as to shape the very structure and character of life in the town.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on May 7, 2009) Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on August 13, 2009) Includes bibliographical references.