Full Description
In this book, 50 experts study the lives of U.S. veterans at work, at home, and in American society as they navigate issues regarding health, gender, public service, substance abuse, and homelessness.
The aftermath of modern war includes a population of veterans whose needs last for many decades—far longer than the war itself. This in-depth study looks at life after the military, considering the dual conundrum of a population benefiting from the perks of their duty, yet continuing to deal with trauma resulting from their service, and of former servicemen and servicewomen trying to fit into civilian life—in a system designed to keep them separate. Through two comprehensive volumes, essays shed light on more than 30 topics involving or affecting former servicemen and servicewomen, offering a blueprint for the formal study of U.S. veterans in the future.
Contributions from dozens of experts in the field of military science cover such issues as unemployment, homelessness, disability, access to higher education, health, media portrayal, criminal justice, substance abuse, guns, suicide, and politics. Through information gleaned from surveys, interviews, participant observations, secondary analyses, and content analyses, the chapters reveal how veterans are able to successfully contribute to civilian life and show how the American workforce can benefit from their unique set of skills.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword by Robert A. McDonald
Preface
VOLUME 1
Chapter One: Introduction to Veterans' Studies
Louis Hicks, Eugenia L. Weiss, and Jose E. Coll
Chapter Two: Characteristics of Veterans and Nonveterans within 20th-Century Cohorts in the United States
Janet M. Wilmoth and Andrew S. London
Chapter Three: The Transition from Active Duty
Daniel Kester and Maureen P. Phillips
Chapter Four: TAPped Out: A Study of the Department of Defense's Transition Assistance Program
Colleen M. Heflin, Leslie B. Hodges, and Andrew S. London
Chapter Five: The VA and the Grass Roots
Colin D. Moore
Chapter Six: The Job Training of Veterans
Bruce D. McDonald III, Myung H. Jin, Susan Camilleri, and Vincent Reitano
Chapter Seven: Veterans in Higher Education
Michael A. Grandillo and John W. M. Magee
Chapter Eight: Veteran Employment in the 21st Century
Hazel R. Atuel, Mary Keeling, Sara M. Kintzle, Anthony M. Hassan, and Carl A. Castro
Chapter Nine: Veterans and Civic Engagement
Fred P. Stone
Chapter Ten: Veterans as Entrepreneurs
Elizabeth A. Osborn and Louis Hicks
Chapter Eleven: Veterans as Private Security Contractors
Alison Hawks
Chapter Twelve: The Preferential Hiring of Military Veterans in the United States
Tim Johnson
Chapter Thirteen: The Retirement Patterns and Socioeconomic Status of Aging Veterans, 1995-2014
Christopher R. Tamborini, Patrick Purcell, and Anya Olsen
Chapter Fourteen: Military Expatriates: U.S. Veterans Living Abroad
Yvonne McNulty, Kelly L. Fisher, Louis Hicks, and Tim Kane
Chapter Fifteen: Veterans' Families
Jasmine Strode-Elfant, Paul Hemez, Lucky Tedrow, and Jay Teachman
VOLUME 2
Chapter Sixteen: Veterans' Health
Lisa Leitz
Chapter Seventeen: The Mental Health of Veterans
Kristi L. Mueller and Jeffrey S. Yarvis
Chapter Eighteen: The Roles of Veteran Peers in Mental Health Recovery during Transition from Military to Civilian Life
Elisa V. Borah and Stacey Stevens Manser
Chapter Ninteen: Veterans as the Media Portray Them
Gregory Gross and Eugenia L. Weiss
Chapter Twenty: Veterans in the Criminal Justice System
Evan R. Seamone and David L. Albright
Chapter Twenty-One: Veterans and Their Firearms
Daniel Burland
Chapter Twenty-Two: Suicide among Veterans
Wilbur J. Scott
Chapter Twenty-Three: Women as Veterans
Molly Clever and Kelly L. Fisher
Chapter Twenty-Four: What Do We Know about Veteran Status Differences in Social Attitudes?
Andrew S. London, Janet M. Wilmoth, and Cassie Dutton
Chapter Twenty-Five: Religion and Spirituality in the Veteran Life Course
Michelle Sandhoff
Chapter Twenty-Six: Immigrants as Veterans
Gina Jackson, Jose E. Coll, and Eugenia L. Weiss
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Military and Wartime Experiences of Racial and Ethnic Minority Veterans
Nikki R. Wooten, Shanada R. Adams, and Carleigh A. Davis
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Veterans
Kristen Kavanaugh
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Housing Veterans: Homelessness and Mortgages
Amy Kate Bailey, Christopher D. Poulos, and Kylee M. Joosten
Chapter Thirty: Veterans' Expeditions: Tapping the Great Outdoors
Demond Mullins
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Index
