Research Paper on:
U.S. Citizenship Rights and Homelessness

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an abusive relationship is "one of the main causes" (Morris, 1998, p. 241) to which women attribute their homelessness. Families with children, who represent forty percent of the growing  masses of homeless people, are often the most victimized of all those having no place to call home (Anonymous, 1998). However, there is a force that worsens their grim  situation even more: the deviance-defining process, which serves to effectively and negatively label homelessness as a deviant component of humanitys socially conscious society. "Consequently, the notion of deviance is  best described as a process of interaction between those labelled deviants and those doing the labelling" (Pietersen, 1997, p. 343). There is no  question that homelessness represents the most "painful form of poverty" (Chitayat, 1994, p. PG), with the deviance-defining process illustrating the problem in such a negative light that the public is  steered toward feelings of hostility, harassment and apathy rather than pity and benevolence. In fact, the fatalistic image of homelessness so successfully displayed by the deviance-defining process has created  a sense of "compassion fatigue" (Chitayat, 1994, p. PG), inasmuch as the problem seems so insurmountably intractable. This perpetuating criminal attitude -- that often blames the homeless persons as  the reason they have landed in this situation -- can, for the most part, be blamed upon the negative labeling component of the deviance-defining process. "...The use of name-calling  in the polemic of the Pastorals suggests the stereotyping process of deviance-defining highlighted by labelling theory" (Pietersen, 1997, p. 343). San Francisco is  just one city where the deviance-defining process has been unjustly applied. Nearly a decade ago, public outcry forced the mayor to impose a sixty dollar fine upon the homeless