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The Social Ecology of Public Space: Active Streets and Violent Crime in Urban Neighborhoods
(Wiley, 2013-11-23)Drawing on one element of the discussion by Jacobs (1961) of the social control benefits of “eyes on the street,” this article explores the link between the prevalence of active streets and violence in urban neighborhoods. ... -
Neighborhoods and adolescent health-risk behavior: An ecological network approach
(Elsevier, 2014-06-19)This study integrates insights from social network analysis, activity space perspectives, and theories of urban and spatial processes to present an novel approach to neighborhood effects on health-risk behavior among youth. ... -
The Role of Immigrant Concentration Within and Beyond Residential Neighborhoods in Adolescent Alcohol Use
(Springer Nature, 2015-06-28)Neighborhoods are salient contexts for youth that shape adolescent development partly through informal social controls on their behavior. This research examines how immigrant concentration within and beyond the residential ... -
Introducción
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EL PERSPECTIVISMO DE REINA DE AMÉRICA COMO CONOCIMIENTO SITUADO DE LA VIOLENCIA Y LA NECROPOLÍTICA EN EL PACÍFICO COLOMBIANO
I write about the novel Reina de América in the first person, in self-chosen exile, which turns out to be the most comfortable way to think about Colombia. And it is that, how to think the organic violence of this nation ... -
Más allá del horror: ética cotidiana y feminismo en el postconflicto chocoano
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Ethics, Collaboration and Knowledge Production: Digital Storytelling with Sexually Diverse Farmworkers in California
(Cultural Studies Association, 2017-01)This article outlines the digital storytelling methods used for a community based research project focused on issues of sexuality among California farmworkers: Sexualidades Campesinas. We note how our process of collaboration ... -
Peaceful Women: Digital Narratives and Daily Survival in Chocó
(Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, 2019-12)Approaching violence as an object of study can reproduce and naturalize horror and, consequently, revictimize those who have survived it. This article explores the process of narrating and researching survival as examples ... -
Using search engine data to gauge public interest in mental health, politics and violence in the context of mass shootings
(PLOS, 2020-08-07)Despite significant potential for providing insight to private perceptions and behaviors, search engine data has yet to be utilized as a means of gauging the U.S. public’s interest and understanding of mental health in the ... -
‘Smoking’: use of cigarettes, cigars and blunts among Southeast Asian American youth and young adults
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Thizzin’ – Ecstasy use contexts and emergent social meanings
(Taylor & Francis, 2011-04-11)The drug “Ecstasy” has been most commonly associated with raves, or electronic music dance events, and attributed with sexual disinhibition. In an ethnographic investigation of drug use among second-generation Southeast ... -
“Feeling Disorder” as a Comparative and Contingent Process: Gender, Neighborhood Conditions, and Adolescent Mental Health
(SAGE, 2013-09-11)We explore the effects of neighborhood social disorder on internalizing symptoms among urban youth by focusing on three questions. First, we ask whether the impact of social disorder on internalizing symptoms results from ... -
Drug-Intake Methods and Social Identity: The Use of Marijuana in Blunts Among Southeast Asian Adolescents and Emerging Adults
(SAGE, 2010-11-01)This article examines why Southeast Asian American adolescents and emerging adults in two urban settings prefer to use “blunts,” or hollowed-out cigars filled with marijuana, over other methods of drug intake. Rationales ... -
Structuring the Future: Anticipated Life Events, Peer Networks, and Adolescent Sexual Behavior
(Wiley, 2013-08-22)While prior research has established associations between individual expectations of future events and risk behavior among adolescents, the potential effects of peers' future perceptions on risk‐taking have been overlooked. ... -
Anticipating Early Fatality: Friends’, Schoolmates’ and Individual Perceptions of Fatality on Adolescent Risk Behaviors
(Springer Nature, 2014-03-18)Past research indicates that anticipating adverse outcomes, such as early death (fatalism), is associated positively with adolescents’ likelihood of engaging in risky behaviors. Health researchers and criminologists have ... -
Moving Beyond Neighborhood: Activity Spaces and Ecological Networks As Contexts for Youth Development
Many scholars, policy analysts, and practitioners agree that neighborhoods are important contexts for urban youth. Yet, despite decades of research, our knowledge of why and how neighborhoods influence the day-to-day lives ... -
Legal Cynicism and Parental Appraisals of Adolescent Violence
(Oxford University Press, 2014-05-22)Research suggests that legal cynicism—a cultural frame in which the law is viewed as illegitimate and ineffective—encourages violence to maintain personal safety when legal recourse is unreliable. But no study has tested ... -
GENDER, FRIENDSHIP NETWORKS, AND DELINQUENCY: A DYNAMIC NETWORK APPROACH
(Wiley, 2014-10-27)Researchers have examined selection and influence processes in shaping delinquency similarity among friends, but little is known about the role of gender in moderating these relationships. Our objective is to examine ... -
Neighborhoods and adolescent health-risk behavior: An ecological network approach
(Elsevier, 2014-06-19)This study integrates insights from social network analysis, activity space perspectives, and theories of urban and spatial processes to present an novel approach to neighborhood effects on health-risk behavior among youth. ... -
The Influence of Women's Neighborhood Resources on Perceptions of Social Disorder
(Wiley, 2017-04-26)Research links neighborhood social disorder with poorer health. But factors beyond observed disorder may influence perceptions that social disorder is problematic. This study investigates whether women's aggregate socioeconomic ...
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