@article{ref1,
title="The challenge to survive: trauma, violence and identity in the lived experience of homeless women",
journal="Journal of forensic practice",
year="2022",
author="Price, Holly and Glorney, Emily",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="PURPOSE To understand how females who had recently been street homeless made sense of their lived experience, seven women engaged in semi-structured interviews. This study aims to provide an insight into the complexities of the gendered homeless experience, while using theories of trauma and victimisation to propose a new approach to understanding the cycle of female homelessness. <br><br>DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH An interpretative phenomenological analysis approach was chosen to explore the phenomenon of female homelessness. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with a small homogenous sample of women recruited in a city in the south of England. <br><br>FINDINGS Two super-ordinate themes emerged: victimisation and trauma and the group and the individual. In the male-dominated world of homelessness, women were caught in a cycle of multiple traumatic loss, compounded by pervasive gender-based violence, struggles in identity and systematic control. Gendered, trauma-informed women's homelessness services are required. Practical implications Findings demonstrate the desperate need for an expansion in female-only homelessness services. The lived experience of the participants adds to an evidence base, which is vital to inform effective trauma-informed gendered service provision. <br><br>ORIGINALITY/VALUE Homelessness policies draw principally on the prevalent literature on men; the UK research with women is lacking. This study gives voice to a hidden population, using the lived experience of women to suggest a new model of female homelessness.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2050-8794",
doi="10.1108/JFP-04-2022-0018",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JFP-04-2022-0018"
}