Author (Date)

Title

Qualitative Method

Sample (N)

Location, of interviews, Age range, race

Recruitment city, state, year

Berman, Alvarez Mulcahy, Forchuck, Edmunds, Haldenby, & Lopez (2009)

Uprooted and displaced: A critical narrative study of homeless, Aboriginal, and newcomer girls in Canada

Narrative Interviews

19 girls and women

Interview locations not provided, 14 to 19 years old, 6 Aboriginal, 6 homeless, 7 newcomer

Southwest Ontario Canada, dates not given

Maassen, Pooley, & Taylor (2013)

“You get forced to live with randoms… and that makes you stronger as a person”: Homeless Western Australian teenagers’ perspectives on their experiences of residing in crisis accommodation

Semi-structured Interviews, Interpretative phenomenology

5 girls, 3 boys (Use if broken down by male and female experience)

16 to 18 years old, 4 Caucasian, 1 Aboriginal, 2 African, 1 Asian

Perth, Australia

MacDonald (2013)

The paradox of being young and homeless: Resiliency in the face of constraints

Ethnography

12 girl, 6 boy

(Use if broken down by male and female experience)

Ethnography, on location with the youth

Ottawa, Canada, 2006 to 2010

Mann, Senn, Girard, & Ackbar (2007)

Community-based interventions for at-risk youth in Ontario under Canada’s Youth Criminal Justice Act: A case study of a “Runaway” girl

Case study, Interview

1 girl

16 years old

Ontario, Canada, 2006 to 2008

Martinez (2006)

Understanding runaway teens

Interviews

18 girls, 5 boys (Use if broken down by male and female experience)

13 to 17 years old (FM = 14.4), 8 Hispanic, 1 NA, 5 AA, 3 White, 1 Asian

Midwestern United States city

Peled & Cohavi (2009)

The meaning of running away for girls

Semi-structured, naturalistic Interviews

10 girls

Residential placements, 13 to 17 years old

Israel

Peled & Muzicant (2008)

The meaning of home for runaway girls

In-depth interviews, naturalistic qualitative approach

15 girls and women

Location of interviews no provided, 13 to 21 years old (M = 15.9), 5 Israeli born, 4 from Ethiopia, 5 from former Soviet Union

Tel-Aviv, Israel, dates not provided

Wesely & Wright (2009)

From the inside out: Efforts by homeless women to disrupt cycles of crime and violence

Qualitative

Interviews

20 women

2 homeless centers, 19 ton 64 years old (M = 40). 6 AA, 3 Hispanic, 1 mixed AA/NA, 1 mixed Puerto Rican/AA, 9 White

Purposive sampling, Southeastern metropolitan area in the United States, September 2003 to January 2004