Margaret Weeks
Biographic Data
| ID | 132798 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret Weeks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret |
| FAMILY NAME | Weeks |
| SIGNATURE | WEEKS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Community Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7387-1259 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Prostitutes’ Jamboree: The World Whores’ Congresses of the 1980s and the Rise of a New Feminism
Barriers to drug treatment in police diversion programs and drug courts: A qualitative analysis
Drug treatment courts and police diversion programs are designed to divert people away from incarceration and into drug treatment. This article explores barriers in linking people who use drugs (PWUD) into drug treatment facilities in urban, suburban, and rural areas of Connecticut, Kentucky, and Wisconsin. Between December 2018 and March 2020, study teams in the three states conducted in-depth, semistructured interviews with key informants invol…
Overlooked Threats to Respondent Driven Sampling Estimators: Peer Recruitment Reality, Degree Measures, and Random Selection Assumption
What is "Support" in Supportive Housing: Client and Service Providers' Perspectives
Supportive housing programs are proposed as a way of increasing housing access and stability for the chronically homeless, improving access to needed services, and decreasing vulnerability to HIV and other diseases. Little is known about residents' understandings of and experiences with different models of supportive housing and how they fit within residents' broader strategies to maintain housing. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 23 …
Structural and Personal Factors Related to Access to Housing and Housing Stability among Urban Drug Users in Hartford, Connecticut
Several policies criminalizing drug use significantly impact drug users' access to housing. This article explores the impact of housing policies on active drug users' access to housing and structural and personal factors related to their homelessness and housing stability. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 65 active cocaine or heroin users at baseline, three and six months. Participants were purposively sampled to reflect a variety of ho…
Nobody gives a damn if I live or die: Violence, drugs, and street-level prostitution in inner-city Hartford, Connecticut
Drawing on the tenets of critical medical anthropology, this article illustrates the relation between violence, drug use, prostitution, and HIV risk in a group of 35 impoverished women living in inner-city Hartford, Connecticut. The study presented here provides an illustration of the role prostitution plays in the SAVA (Substance Abuse, Violence, and AIDS) syndemic as conceptualized by Singer (1996). By focusing on the life experiences of women …
War Stories: Aids Prevention and the Street Narratives of Drug Users
The day-to-day discourse of illicit drug users is replete with stylized narratives of street experience. These "war stories," as they are popularly known, are shared among drug users as they hustle for money, purchase drugs, get high, and hang out in diverse street locations. Drug-user narratives, which describe complex adventures and grave suffering, are primary ethnographic sources of information about patterns of drug consumption and risk beha…
High on illy: Monitoring an emergent drug problem in Hartford, CT
This paper reports findings from a one‐year project designed to monitor emergent drug use and health‐risk patterns in Hartford, CT. Using ethnography, survey, and literature review as primary research methods, the project assessed patterns of drug consumption and associated HIV and other health risks. The project identified “illy,” marijuana soaked in embalming fluid, as an emergent drug threat to public health in Hartford. Features of illy consu…
Aids and the IV drug user: The local context in prevention efforts
Aids and the IV drug user: The local context in prevention efforts
Nobody gives a damn if I live or die: Violence, drugs, and street-level prostitution in inner-city Hartford, Connecticut
Drawing on the tenets of critical medical anthropology, this article illustrates the relation between violence, drug use, prostitution, and HIV risk in a group of 35 impoverished women living in inner-city Hartford, Connecticut. The study presented here provides an illustration of the role prostitution plays in the SAVA (Substance Abuse, Violence, and AIDS) syndemic as conceptualized by Singer (1996). By focusing on the life experiences of women …
War Stories: Aids Prevention and the Street Narratives of Drug Users
The day-to-day discourse of illicit drug users is replete with stylized narratives of street experience. These "war stories," as they are popularly known, are shared among drug users as they hustle for money, purchase drugs, get high, and hang out in diverse street locations. Drug-user narratives, which describe complex adventures and grave suffering, are primary ethnographic sources of information about patterns of drug consumption and risk beha…
Structural and Personal Factors Related to Access to Housing and Housing Stability among Urban Drug Users in Hartford, Connecticut
Several policies criminalizing drug use significantly impact drug users' access to housing. This article explores the impact of housing policies on active drug users' access to housing and structural and personal factors related to their homelessness and housing stability. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 65 active cocaine or heroin users at baseline, three and six months. Participants were purposively sampled to reflect a variety of ho…
High on illy: Monitoring an emergent drug problem in Hartford, CT
This paper reports findings from a one‐year project designed to monitor emergent drug use and health‐risk patterns in Hartford, CT. Using ethnography, survey, and literature review as primary research methods, the project assessed patterns of drug consumption and associated HIV and other health risks. The project identified “illy,” marijuana soaked in embalming fluid, as an emergent drug threat to public health in Hartford. Features of illy consu…
Aids and the IV drug user: The local context in prevention efforts
High on illy: Monitoring an emergent drug problem in Hartford, CT
This paper reports findings from a one‐year project designed to monitor emergent drug use and health‐risk patterns in Hartford, CT. Using ethnography, survey, and literature review as primary research methods, the project assessed patterns of drug consumption and associated HIV and other health risks. The project identified “illy,” marijuana soaked in embalming fluid, as an emergent drug threat to public health in Hartford. Features of illy consu…
War Stories: Aids Prevention and the Street Narratives of Drug Users
The day-to-day discourse of illicit drug users is replete with stylized narratives of street experience. These "war stories," as they are popularly known, are shared among drug users as they hustle for money, purchase drugs, get high, and hang out in diverse street locations. Drug-user narratives, which describe complex adventures and grave suffering, are primary ethnographic sources of information about patterns of drug consumption and risk beha…
Nobody gives a damn if I live or die: Violence, drugs, and street-level prostitution in inner-city Hartford, Connecticut
Drawing on the tenets of critical medical anthropology, this article illustrates the relation between violence, drug use, prostitution, and HIV risk in a group of 35 impoverished women living in inner-city Hartford, Connecticut. The study presented here provides an illustration of the role prostitution plays in the SAVA (Substance Abuse, Violence, and AIDS) syndemic as conceptualized by Singer (1996). By focusing on the life experiences of women …
Structural and Personal Factors Related to Access to Housing and Housing Stability among Urban Drug Users in Hartford, Connecticut
Several policies criminalizing drug use significantly impact drug users' access to housing. This article explores the impact of housing policies on active drug users' access to housing and structural and personal factors related to their homelessness and housing stability. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 65 active cocaine or heroin users at baseline, three and six months. Participants were purposively sampled to reflect a variety of ho…
What is "Support" in Supportive Housing: Client and Service Providers' Perspectives
Supportive housing programs are proposed as a way of increasing housing access and stability for the chronically homeless, improving access to needed services, and decreasing vulnerability to HIV and other diseases. Little is known about residents' understandings of and experiences with different models of supportive housing and how they fit within residents' broader strategies to maintain housing. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 23 …
Overlooked Threats to Respondent Driven Sampling Estimators: Peer Recruitment Reality, Degree Measures, and Random Selection Assumption
A Prostitutes’ Jamboree: The World Whores’ Congresses of the 1980s and the Rise of a New Feminism
Barriers to drug treatment in police diversion programs and drug courts: A qualitative analysis
Drug treatment courts and police diversion programs are designed to divert people away from incarceration and into drug treatment. This article explores barriers in linking people who use drugs (PWUD) into drug treatment facilities in urban, suburban, and rural areas of Connecticut, Kentucky, and Wisconsin. Between December 2018 and March 2020, study teams in the three states conducted in-depth, semistructured interviews with key informants invol…
Medicine (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Drug (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)