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Homeless Youth: Patterns of Belief
Author(s) -
Low Nicholas,
Crawshaw Bruce
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1985.tb00782.x
Subject(s) - project commissioning , perception , public policy , rest (music) , belief system , publishing , sociology , public relations , psychology , political science , criminology , law , medicine , ethnology , neuroscience , cardiology
Public policies, as Edelman (1977) has pointed out ‘rest on the beliefs and perceptions of those who help to make them’. Policy on youth homelessness is no exception. A full understanding of youth homelessness. it is argued, requires an understanding of the belief systems of those who define the problem and who shape policy. This paper reports the results of a study of the perceptions of policy makers and the providers of services to youth.