Ruth Crocker

Biographic Data

ID3978493
NAMERuth Crocker
GIVEN NAMESRuth
FAMILY NAMECrocker
SIGNATURECROCKER R
AFFILIATIONSAuburn University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR12
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1991
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX2

  • Peeling back the layers of organised crime in local communities

    Open AccessMichael Skidmore, Ruth Crocker et al.ARTICLECrime Prevention and Community…2020

  • Barriers and facilitators in supporting people with intellectual disability to report sexual violence

    Open AccessEllen Frances Fraser-Barbour, Ruth Crocker et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Adult Protection2018Cited by: 1References: 8

    Purpose Evidence from Australia and worldwide has highlighted the ongoing marginalisation, discrimination, abuse, violence and neglect of people with disability. One of the main areas of concern is that despite such evidence there remain fundamental barriers for people with disability to report violence and/or access supports. Significantly few studies have canvased the perspectives of people with intellectual disability (ID), family members or d…

  • Information, connection and giving back

    Open AccessMichelle Bellon, Sandi Sando et al.ARTICLEHealth & Social Care in the…2015Cited by: 2References: 2

    This study aimed to identify the experiences and outcomes of participation in Families4Families Inc., a peer support network for families following acquired brain injury (ABI) in South Australia. Prior to the programme's launch in January 2013, new members of the network were invited to participate in pre- and post-programme phone interviews to identify benefits and limitations of the programme, and identify outcomes of participation. Fifty-five …

  • The Poorhouse

    Ruth CrockerARTICLEJournal of American History2006

    In The Discovery of the Asylum (1971), David Rothman memorably described the origins of the American poorhouse in idealistic early nineteenth century schemes of deterrence and character improvement. Now David Wagner, a professor of social work and sociology, uses data from six New England poorhouses to show that poorhouses in the years after 1870 varied widely depending on pragmatic local decisions about how to deal with poverty. No such wholesal…

  • The Business of Charity

    Ruth Crocker, Kathleen Waters SanderARTICLEJournal of American History2000

    Journal Article The Business of Charity: The Woman's Exchange Movement, 1832–1900. By Kathleen Waters Sander. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xii, 165 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-252-02401-X. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-252-06703-7.) Get access Ruth Crocker Ruth Crocker Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, March 2000, Pages…

  • Men and Women Adrift

    Ruth Crocker, Nina Mjagkij et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1998

    Journal Article Men and Women Adrift: The YMCA and the YWCA in the City. Ed. by Nina Mjagkij and Margaret Spratt. (New York: New York University Press, 1997. xx, 311 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8147-5541-0. Paper, $19.50, ISBN 0-8147-5542-9.) Get access Ruth Crocker Ruth Crocker Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998,…

  • Black Neighbors

    Ruth Crocker, Elisabeth Lasch-QuinnARTICLEThe American Historical Review1995

    Professing a policy of cultural and social integration, the American settlement house movement made early progress in helping immigrants adjust to life in American cities. However, when African Americans migrating from the rural South in the early twentieth century began to replace white immigrants in settlement environs, most houses failed to redirect their efforts toward their new neighbors. Nationally, the movement did not take a concerted sta…

  • Social Work and Social Order

    Rivka Shpak Lissak, Ruth Hutchinson Crocker et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1993

  • Social Work and Social Order

    Victoria Bissell Brown, Victoria L Brown et al.ARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1993Cited by: 2

  • Social Work and Social Order

    Suzanne Morton, Ruth Hutchinson Crocker et al.ARTICLELabour / Le Travail1993Cited by: 1

  • The Settlement Movement Revisited

    E Boris, Mina Carson et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1992

  • The Settlements

    Ruth Hutchinson Crocker, Ruth Crocker et al.ARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1991