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Social problems in the age of COVID-19. Volume I, US perspectives / edited by Glenn W. Muschert, Kristen M. Budd, Michelle Christian, David C. Lane, and Jason A. Smith

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US perspectives
Published
Bristol, UK : Policy Press, an imprint of Bristol University Press, 2020.
Copyright Date
©2020
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 160 pages).
Additional Creators
Muschert, Glenn W., Budd, Kristen M., Christian, Michelle, Lane, David C. (Writer on tattooing), and Smith, Jason A., 1984-
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Contents
Presidential welcome / Corey Dolgon -- Editorial introduction / Glenn W. Muschert, Kristen M. Budd, David C. Lane, Jason A. Smith -- Creating safer environments for survivors : housing-based approaches to intimate partner violence / Jenny K. Leigh -- The incarceration state in the age of COVID-19 / Kristen M. Budd, Bianca E. Bersani -- Incarceration during COVID-19 : jail shouldn't be a death sentence / Felicia Arriaga, Jasmine Heiss, Max Rose -- Essential work and unemployment in the United States / Biko Koenig -- The US African-American population experienced a COVID-19 double disadvantage : unemployment and illness / Teresa A. Sullivan -- Residential crowding among meat processing workers / Stephanie A. Bohon, Rachel Ponder -- Experiencing homelessness in the time of COVID-19 / Cynthia Puddu -- The LGBT medical and political crisis in the wake of COVID-19 / DaShanne Stokes -- Inequality in isolation : educating students with disabilities during COVID-19 / Nora C.R. Broege, Charity Anderson -- Birth in the US amid COVID-19 / Shannon K. Carter, Bhoomi K. Thakore -- Access to mental health care during and after COVID-19 / Andrea N. Hunt -- Vaccine opposition in the COVID-19 age / Jennifer Roebuck Bulanda, Shelby Frye, Valerie Thompson -- The social problems of COVID-19 / Joel Best -- Afterword / Héctor Delgado.
Summary
Written by a highly respected team of authors brought together by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), this book provides accessible insights into pressing social problems in the United States in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and proposes public policy responses for victims and justice, precarious populations, employment dilemmas and health and well-being.--
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9781447359869 electronic book
1447359860 electronic book
9781447359814 electronic publication
144735981X electronic publication
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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