Contents

pp iii-iv

Acknowledgments

pp v-vi

Presidential Welcome

pp vii-x

Editorial Introduction

pp xi-xiv

Part I - Victims and Justice

pp 1-1

1 - Creating Safer Environments for Survivors: Housing-Based Approaches to Intimate Partner Violence

pp 2-12

2 - The Incarceration State in the Age of COVID-19

pp 13-24

3 - Incarceration during COVID-19: Jail Shouldn’t be a Death Sentence

pp 25-34

Part II - Employment Dilemmas

pp 35-35

4 - Essential Work and Unemployment in the United States

pp 36-48

5 - The US African-American Population Experienced a COVID-19 Double Disadvantage: Unemployment and Illness

pp 49-58

6 - Residential Crowding Among Meat Processing Workers

pp 59-68

Part III - Precarious Populations

pp 69-69

7 - Experiencing Homelessness in the Time of COVID-19

pp 70-80

8 - The LGBT Medical and Political Crisis in the Wake of COVID-19

pp 81-90

9 - Inequality in Isolation: Educating Students with Disabilities during COVID-19

pp 91-100

Part IV - Health and Well-Being

pp 101-101

10 - Birth in the US amid COVID-19

pp 102-112

11 - Access to Mental Health Care During and After COVID-19

pp 113-121

12 - Vaccine Opposition in the COVID-19 Age

pp 122-133

End Matter

13 - The Social Problems of COVID-19

pp 134-142

Afterword

pp 143-150

Index

pp 151-160