R Curtis
Biographic Data
| ID | 1347 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Curtis |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Curtis |
| SIGNATURE | CURTIS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9092-8413 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 155 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A Free Press? and Invisible Wars
The Middle to Later Stone Age transition at Panga ya Saidi, in the tropical coastal forest of eastern Africa
Year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest
The Middle to Later Stone Age transition in Africa has been debated as a significant shift in human technological, cultural, and cognitive evolution. However, the majority of research on this transition is currently focused on southern Africa due to a lack of long-term, stratified sites across much of the African continent. Here, we report a 78,000-year-long archeological record from Panga ya Saidi, a cave in the humid coastal forest of Kenya. Fo…
Intercultural language learning
This study explores the impact of a government-funded program which sought to retrain in-service teachers in regional Queensland as Indonesian language teachers through an Australian university-led program with on-campus and in-country components. The study first examines how the Indonesian for Teachers Initiative (InTI) program’s diverse social learning approach to intercultural language learning cultivated the development of the teacher partici…
Strength in Numbers
This study describes a new approach to undergraduate science training that offers an alternate model to the national objective of scaling up scientific research interests and capabilities among undergraduate students. With this new focus, we seek to more effectively bring scientific research methods and experiences to larger numbers of students in non-elite educational circumstances. Our model has been designed and implemented, at the John Jay Co…
Report from the field
Drug dealing and attitudes and norms about drug dealing among young adults and their peers in a high-risk community
Consistent condom use among drug-using youth in a high HIV-risk neighbourhood
The objectives of this study were to determine predictors of consistent condom use in heterosexual relationships of young adults who use hard drugs in a neigbourhood with widespread drug-use-connected HIV. We interviewed 196 18–24 year olds who injected drugs or used heroin, cocaine or crack in the prior year and lived in the Bushwick neighbourhood of New York City.Interviews covered sociodemographics, substance use and sexual networks. The unit …
Consistent condom use among drug-using youth in a high HIV-risk neighbourhood
The objectives of this study were to determine predictors of consistent condom use in heterosexual relationships of young adults who use hard drugs in a neighbourhood with widespread drug-use-connected HIV. We interviewed 196 18-24 year olds who injected drugs or used heroin, cocaine or crack in the prior year and lived in the Bushwick neighbourhood of New York City. Interviews covered sociodemographics, substance use and sexual networks. The uni…
Consistent condom use in the heterosexual relationships of young adults who live in a high-HIV-risk neighbourhood and do not use "hard drugs"
This study was set up to determine the predictors of condom use in the heterosexual non-commercial sexual relationships of young adults who neither inject drugs nor use cocaine, heroin or crack, in a neighbourhood with widespread drug-use-connected HIV. The analytic sample is 279 young adults, aged 18-24, who have never injected drugs and who have not used heroin, cocaine or crack in the last year. They were recruited in the Bushwick neighbourhoo…
Private Purchasing Pools to Harness Individual Tax Credits for Consumers
While health insurance tax credits could help people who otherwise could not afford to purchase coverage, many might still find individual coverage too expensive and its marketplace dynamics bewildering. As an alternative, this paper outlines an approach using private purchasing pools for tax-credit recipients. The objective is to offer these individuals and families a choice among competing health plans, and provide many of the same advantages e…
The Stigmatized Image of the ''Crack Head
Using ethnographic methods and sociological theory, this article explores some reasons why a cohort of young adults have apparently eschewed the use of cocaine in an environment that would usually put them at risk for drug abuse. The diffusion of the idea ''crack head'' into drug subcultures and the stigmatized status attached to it appears to have protected some young adults from using cocaine. It is assumed that this cohort of adolescents took …
Networks and HIV risk
Dialogue on Radicalism and the Left
The Heroin Epidemic in New York City
Since 1989, heroin production worldwide has risen; in New York City, as its purity rose and prices fell, street-level markets were restructured and offered heroin in addition to cocaine and crack (which had been popular during the 1980s). While officials estimate that there are between 500,000 and one million hard-core, chronic heroin users nationwide, evidence of supplemental users heralding another heroin era includes: more overdoses and overdo…
Sociometric risk networks and risk for HIV infection
OBJECTIVES: This study examined whether networks of drug-injecting and sexual relationships among drug injectors are associated with individual human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) serostatus and with behavioral likelihood of future infection. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey of 767 drug injectors in New York City was performed with chain-referral and linking procedures to measure large-scale (sociometric) risk networks. Graph-theoretic algebraic …
Walter Benjamin
Syringe-mediated drug sharing among injecting drug users
Street-level drug markets
The relevance of drug injectors' social and risk networks for understanding and preventing HIV infection
Women on the edge of crime
Activities and Appointments
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Inequality in American Communities
The relevance of drug injectors' social and risk networks for understanding and preventing HIV infection
Sociometric risk networks and risk for HIV infection
OBJECTIVES: This study examined whether networks of drug-injecting and sexual relationships among drug injectors are associated with individual human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) serostatus and with behavioral likelihood of future infection. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey of 767 drug injectors in New York City was performed with chain-referral and linking procedures to measure large-scale (sociometric) risk networks. Graph-theoretic algebraic …
The Stigmatized Image of the ''Crack Head
Using ethnographic methods and sociological theory, this article explores some reasons why a cohort of young adults have apparently eschewed the use of cocaine in an environment that would usually put them at risk for drug abuse. The diffusion of the idea ''crack head'' into drug subcultures and the stigmatized status attached to it appears to have protected some young adults from using cocaine. It is assumed that this cohort of adolescents took …
Syringe-mediated drug sharing among injecting drug users
The Middle to Later Stone Age transition at Panga ya Saidi, in the tropical coastal forest of eastern Africa
Inequality in American Communities
Activities and Appointments
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Women on the edge of crime
The relevance of drug injectors' social and risk networks for understanding and preventing HIV infection
Street-level drug markets
Walter Benjamin
Syringe-mediated drug sharing among injecting drug users
The Heroin Epidemic in New York City
Since 1989, heroin production worldwide has risen; in New York City, as its purity rose and prices fell, street-level markets were restructured and offered heroin in addition to cocaine and crack (which had been popular during the 1980s). While officials estimate that there are between 500,000 and one million hard-core, chronic heroin users nationwide, evidence of supplemental users heralding another heroin era includes: more overdoses and overdo…
Sociometric risk networks and risk for HIV infection
OBJECTIVES: This study examined whether networks of drug-injecting and sexual relationships among drug injectors are associated with individual human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) serostatus and with behavioral likelihood of future infection. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey of 767 drug injectors in New York City was performed with chain-referral and linking procedures to measure large-scale (sociometric) risk networks. Graph-theoretic algebraic …
Networks and HIV risk
Dialogue on Radicalism and the Left
The Stigmatized Image of the ''Crack Head
Using ethnographic methods and sociological theory, this article explores some reasons why a cohort of young adults have apparently eschewed the use of cocaine in an environment that would usually put them at risk for drug abuse. The diffusion of the idea ''crack head'' into drug subcultures and the stigmatized status attached to it appears to have protected some young adults from using cocaine. It is assumed that this cohort of adolescents took …
Consistent condom use in the heterosexual relationships of young adults who live in a high-HIV-risk neighbourhood and do not use "hard drugs"
This study was set up to determine the predictors of condom use in the heterosexual non-commercial sexual relationships of young adults who neither inject drugs nor use cocaine, heroin or crack, in a neighbourhood with widespread drug-use-connected HIV. The analytic sample is 279 young adults, aged 18-24, who have never injected drugs and who have not used heroin, cocaine or crack in the last year. They were recruited in the Bushwick neighbourhoo…
Private Purchasing Pools to Harness Individual Tax Credits for Consumers
While health insurance tax credits could help people who otherwise could not afford to purchase coverage, many might still find individual coverage too expensive and its marketplace dynamics bewildering. As an alternative, this paper outlines an approach using private purchasing pools for tax-credit recipients. The objective is to offer these individuals and families a choice among competing health plans, and provide many of the same advantages e…
Consistent condom use among drug-using youth in a high HIV-risk neighbourhood
The objectives of this study were to determine predictors of consistent condom use in heterosexual relationships of young adults who use hard drugs in a neigbourhood with widespread drug-use-connected HIV. We interviewed 196 18–24 year olds who injected drugs or used heroin, cocaine or crack in the prior year and lived in the Bushwick neighbourhood of New York City.Interviews covered sociodemographics, substance use and sexual networks. The unit …
Consistent condom use among drug-using youth in a high HIV-risk neighbourhood
The objectives of this study were to determine predictors of consistent condom use in heterosexual relationships of young adults who use hard drugs in a neighbourhood with widespread drug-use-connected HIV. We interviewed 196 18-24 year olds who injected drugs or used heroin, cocaine or crack in the prior year and lived in the Bushwick neighbourhood of New York City. Interviews covered sociodemographics, substance use and sexual networks. The uni…
Drug dealing and attitudes and norms about drug dealing among young adults and their peers in a high-risk community
Report from the field
Strength in Numbers
This study describes a new approach to undergraduate science training that offers an alternate model to the national objective of scaling up scientific research interests and capabilities among undergraduate students. With this new focus, we seek to more effectively bring scientific research methods and experiences to larger numbers of students in non-elite educational circumstances. Our model has been designed and implemented, at the John Jay Co…
Year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest
The Middle to Later Stone Age transition in Africa has been debated as a significant shift in human technological, cultural, and cognitive evolution. However, the majority of research on this transition is currently focused on southern Africa due to a lack of long-term, stratified sites across much of the African continent. Here, we report a 78,000-year-long archeological record from Panga ya Saidi, a cave in the humid coastal forest of Kenya. Fo…
Intercultural language learning
This study explores the impact of a government-funded program which sought to retrain in-service teachers in regional Queensland as Indonesian language teachers through an Australian university-led program with on-campus and in-country components. The study first examines how the Indonesian for Teachers Initiative (InTI) program’s diverse social learning approach to intercultural language learning cultivated the development of the teacher partici…
The Middle to Later Stone Age transition at Panga ya Saidi, in the tropical coastal forest of eastern Africa
A Free Press? and Invisible Wars
Medicine (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Drug (8 works) · Environmental health (7 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (7 works) · Mathematics (5 works)