The "politics of domination" is at the core of this analysis. In the hierarchical organization of society, power and authority are unevenly distributed. The effect of this disparity in resources is that those with more social power are granted a license to engage in conduct that will secure and confirm their positional advantage. Those who are disadvantaged, by virtue of their lack of material or social assets, are vulnerable to the intrusion of sanctioning behaviors. Women, the poor, the disenfranchised, and children are particularly at risk of exposure to behaviors intended to influence and sometimes constrain their belief systems, their self-perceptions, and their ability to exercise freedom of choice. This receives its expression in the regimes of social control that range across a continuum of violence and that shape and limit the behaviors of homeless persons, especially homeless youth. 83 references