Bib: Legislation

Tori Bishop

Dawn DiPrince

ENG 102

12 March 2013

Annotated Bibliography

Shinn, Marybeth. “International Homelessness: Policy, Socio-Cultural, and Individual Perspectives” Journal of Social Issues. 2007;63(3):657-677.

In her article "International Homelessness: Policy, Socio-Cultural, and Individual Perspectives" (2007), Marybeth Shinn asserts that one of the contributors to homelessness is social interactions among a personal conversations to other individuals. Shinn supports claim by announcing how our society is centered on social policies that reduce inequality among the people. Her purpose in is to show how homeless people have no room for social mobility because our lack of involvement, and association with them. I’m looking to use this source to show how our discrimination within society is crippling our lower class citizen’s room for advancement.

Gerry,  Sarah. “ Jones v. City of Los Angeles: A Moral Response to One City’s Attempt to Criminalize, Rather than Confront” Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. 2007; 42(1):239-251.

In her article "Jones v. City of Los Angeles: A Moral Response to One City’s Attempt to Criminalize, Rather than Confront, Its Homelessness Crisis" (2007), Sarah Gerry asserts that discrimination within our criminal system is a becoming a big problem. Gerry supports her claim by introducing her readers to a court trial that was in session to try to prohibit any individual from being stationed on the street. Her purpose in writing this article is to show peoples objective to the removal of homeless people is becoming the center of discrimination. My purpose in using this article is to show how discrimination is a problem in America, and how this problem has trickled to our criminal system. This article will help me argue why we need to go as far as passing a legislation to protect the rights of homeless people.

Wen, Chuck K. “Homeless People’s Perceptions of Welcomeness and Unwelcomeness in Healthcare Encounters.” JGIM: Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2007;22(7):1011-1017.

In his article "Homeless People’s Perceptions of Welcomeness and Unwelcomeness in Healthcare Encounters" (2007), Chuck Wen asserts that discrimination within the health care facilities is prominent and subject as to why homeless individuals are hesitant to seeking medical care. Wen supports his claims by introducing a study he did about the “I-it’s” and the “I-you’s” and how they  choice of wording physicians use is very important to making a homeless or non-homeless person feel welcome in their facility. His purpose in writing this article is to how physicians in healthcare facilities use discrimination in their practices with simply their word choice. I’m going to use this article to show how discrimination is everywhere for a person who is homeless, even in the healthcare facilities. Healthcare is essential for everyone and for someone to feel hesitant about seeking care is a problem within our society.

Lynch, Philip. “Homelessness, Poverty and Discrimination: Improving Public Health by Realising Human Rights.” Deakin Law Review. 2005;10(1):233-259.

In his article "Homelessness, Poverty and Discrimination: Improving Public Health by Realising Human Rights", Philip Lynch asserts that there are communications between homelessness, poverty, and discrimination and poor health. Lynch supports his claims about these connections by providing how the homelessness has became a socio-economic problem in their troubles to improve their health. His purpose in writing this article is to inform the American culture the discrimination within the poor community is subject to their lack of advancement. I plan to use this article to show how discrimination is subject as to why poor people are deprived of social mobility.

United States. Cong. Senate. Concerning Crimes against Homeless Person. 68^th General Assembly., 1^st sess. State of Colorado, 2012.

 This is the source where I acessed my bill, the bill is one that tries to persuade voters to qualify homeless violence a hate crime according to Colorado State Law. I’m using this source to inform my readers of the content in which this legislations pertains