B C Kelly
Biographic Data
| ID | 18547 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B C Kelly |
| GIVEN NAMES | B C |
| FAMILY NAME | Kelly |
| SIGNATURE | KELLY B C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2039-1347 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 68 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 183 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 68 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Gender convergence of cannabis use, dependence, and risk in the U.S
Historically, males exhibited higher prevalence of cannabis use, greater dependence, and viewed cannabis as less risky. However, as U.S. cannabis policy shifts rapidly, accompanied by cultural changes in normalization and destigmatization, research has been mixed on whether the male-female gap is increasing or decreasing. Using twenty years (2002-2021) of nationally representative National Survey on Drug Use and Health data and Age-Period-Cohort-…
Policy influences on adolescent risk perceptions of vaping
AIMS: Electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) use by youth remains a significant public health concern. Perceived risk is an important predictor of adolescent ENDS use. While state policies have been shown to affect ENDS use, and perceived risk is inversely associated with use, whether policies shape adolescent risk perceptions remains less well studied. METHODS: We used longitudinal (2013-2019) US adolescent data from the Population Assessmen…
Event-Centered Interviewing: Integrating Qualitative Interviews with Experience Sampling Technologies
The qualitative interview has been a core technique in the sociological methods toolkit for generations. Interviews provide essential insights into how participants experience the world around them. New opportunities have emerged to adapt traditional in-depth interview techniques through the use of evolving technologies available to interview participants. This article describes the integration of ecological momentary assessment techniques to aug…
The Framing of Minority Threat and Moralization to Criminalize Behavior: The Case of Cannabis in the Early 20th Century
Understanding why particular behavior is encoded in law or other systems of rules has been a core topic of sociology since its inception. Although differing rhetorical frames have been identified in policy debates, little research directly links such rhetoric and policy passage. Centering framing theory, we use the case of U.S. cannabis criminalization via mixed-methods content analyses of 9,707 nationwide newspaper articles and event history ana…
Patterns, clusters, and transitions in U.S. state ENDS policy implementation: 2010–2020
Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), such as e-cigarettes, have become increasingly used across the world. To respond to global public health challenges associated with vaping, governments have implemented numerous ENDS policies. This research highlights the patterns, clustering, and transitions in U.S. state ENDS policy implementation from 2010 to 2020. Policy data for tobacco and ENDS policies primarily from the Americans for Nonsmokers…
Hemp-based psychoactive use and risk among young adults: Trend theory, policy, and regulation beyond legality
Sibling disclosure and adolescents’ coping from before to during the Covid-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study
The extraordinary disruptions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic created a unique context to investigate the links between family communication and adolescent adjustment. Given that widespread stay-at-home orders increased time spent in the family setting, the present study examined reciprocal links between older and younger adolescent siblings' disclosure toward each other and concurrent and prospective links between those disclosures and the…
E-cigarette use among early adolescent tobacco cigarette smokers: Testing the disruption and entrenchment hypotheses in two longitudinal cohorts
Despite national differences in e-cigarette regulation and marketing, there is evidence e-cigarette use among early adolescent smokers in the UK and USA leads to higher odds of any smoking and more frequent tobacco cigarette use later in adolescence
Direct and indirect effects of maternal and sibling intimacy on adolescents' volunteering via social responsibility values: A longitudinal study
This study investigates the direct and indirect effects of maternal and sibling relational intimacy on adolescents' volunteering behaviors via their social responsibility values. Participants included two adolescents (50% female; M age = 1 year) and one parent (85% female; M age = 45 years) from 682 families ( N = 2046) from an ongoing longitudinal study. Adolescents self-reported their intimacy with mothers and siblings (Time 1), social responsi…
Policy Brief
Changes in substance use among HIV-negative MSM: A longitudinal analysis, 1995-2019
Drug Normalization and Conventional Social Institutions: The Unusual Case of Prescription Drug Misuse
Sociological and criminological research demonstrates that involvement in conventional social institutions and having a “stake in conformity” serves as a protective factor against various forms of substance use. Yet, the normalization of prescription drug misuse raises questions about these processes. Drawing on interviews of 162 young adult prescription drug misusers, we demonstrate that the normalization of prescription drug misuse is driven by…
Doing and Redoing Emphasized Femininity: How Women Use Emotion Work to Manage Competing Expectations in College Hookup Culture
The Liberalization of Cannabis Possession Laws and Birth Outcomes: A State-Level Fixed Effects Analysis, 2003–2019
Surveillance, Self-Governance, and Mortality: The Impact of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs on U.S. Overdose Mortality, 2000–2016
Policy mechanisms shaping population health take numerous forms, from behavioral prohibitions to mandates for action to surveillance. Rising drug overdoses undermined the state’s ability to promote population-level health. Using the case of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs), we contend that PDMP implementation highlights state biopower operating via mechanisms of surveillance, whereby prescribers, pharmacists, and patients perceive ag…
Balancing consumption and constraint: Binge drinking, stimulant misuse, and relational capital among young adults
Peer Association and Routine Activities in Sex Worker Patronage among Male Migrant Workers
Studies of people who buy sex often focus on psychological and personality factors with less attention paid to the role of social contexts. This study integrates the two lines of inquiry, routine activity theory and peer deviance, to examine the social process of paying for sex. We argue that deviant peer association may shape buying sex due to peers' role in shifts in the three components of routine activity theory: motivation, targets, and lack…
Supporting Future Cannabis Policy – Developing a Standard Joint Unit: A Brief Back-Casting Exercise
The standardization of cannabis doses is a priority for research, policy-making, clinical and harm-reduction interventions and consumer security. Scientists have called for standard units of dosing for cannabis, similar to those used for alcohol. A Standard Joint Unit (SJU) would facilitate preventive and intervention models in ways similar to the Standard Drink (SD). Learning from the SD experiences allows researchers to tackle emerging barriers…
Impact of cigarette package warnings on attitudes towards sharing and gifting cigarettes in China: A nationwide study of smokers and non-smokers
Having pictorial health warnings on cigarette packages may reduce sharing and gifting cigarettes in China
Developing explanatory models for life course shifts in the burden of substance use to inform future policy and practice
Standard units for cannabis dose: Why is it important to standardize cannabis dose for drug policy and how can we enhance its place on the public health agenda
Changes in family chaos and family relationships during the Covid-19 pandemic: Evidence from a longitudinal study
The purpose of this article was to explore how family chaos, parenting processes, parent-child relationship qualities, and sibling relationship qualities changed before versus the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants included one parent and two adolescent-aged children from 682 families (2,046 participants). Parents and youth participating in an ongoing longitudinal study in five Midwestern states in the United States completed an …
Integrating Theories of Gender and Sexuality With Deviance: The Case of Prescription Drug Misuse during Sex
Social scientists have expended substantial effort to identify group patterns of deviant behavior. Yet beyond the ill-conceived treatment of sexual minorities as inherently deviant, they have rarely considered how gendered sexual identities (GSIs) shape participation in deviance. We argue for the utility of centering theories of gender and sexuality in intersectional deviance research. We demonstrate how this intentional focus on gender and sexua…
Nightlife scene involvement and patterns of prescription drug misuse
Sleep quality in cigarette smokers and nonsmokers: Findings from the general population in central China
Sleep disturbances were more prevalent among cigarette smokers than nonsmokers. Smokers also varied in sleep problems on the basis of the characteristics of their smoking. Smokers should be informed about the link between cigarette smoking and poor sleep quality, and should be advised that one of several important health benefits from smoking cessation could be the improvement of sleep quality. Sleep therapy should be recommended as an adjunctive…
Sex and the community: The Implications of Neighbourhoods and Social Networks for Sexual Risk Behaviours Among Urban Gay Men
Gay neighbourhoods have historically served as vital places for gay socialising, and gay social networks are important sources of social support. Yet, few studies have examined the influence of these forms of community on sexual health. Informed by theoretical frameworks on neighbourhoods and networks, we employ multi-level modelling to test hypotheses concerning whether gay neighbourhoods and social network factors are associated with five sexua…
Community and Drug Use among Gay Men: The Role of Neighborhoods and Networks
Gay neighborhoods serve as vital places for gay men's socializing, yet few studies have examined their contributions to gay men's health-either directly or indirectly via residents' social networks. Drawing from theoretical perspectives on community and networks, we test hypotheses concerning whether gay neighborhoods and social network factors are associated with patterns of recent illicit drug use among a sample of 740 urban gay men from New Yo…
Changes in family chaos and family relationships during the Covid-19 pandemic: Evidence from a longitudinal study
The purpose of this article was to explore how family chaos, parenting processes, parent-child relationship qualities, and sibling relationship qualities changed before versus the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants included one parent and two adolescent-aged children from 682 families (2,046 participants). Parents and youth participating in an ongoing longitudinal study in five Midwestern states in the United States completed an …
Explanations for the Origins of Sexual Compulsivity Among Gay and Bisexual Men
Sexual Compulsivity and Sexual Behaviors Among Gay and Bisexual Men and Lesbian and Bisexual Women
Within the existing body of research, the information pertaining to sexual compulsivity (SC) among women, both homo- and heterosexual, remains rather limited in comparison to men. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of SC in a community sample of gay and bisexual men and lesbian and bisexual women and to identify differences in sexual practices based on classification as sexually compulsive within gender. Supporting previous resear…
Symbolic boundaries, subcultural capital and prescription drug misuse across youth cultures
Prescription drug misuse among young adults has surged over the past decade. Yet the contexts surrounding this misuse remain unclear, particularly the subcultural contexts. Many young urban adults participate in youth cultures. This article describes the subcultural contexts of prescription drug misuse in youth subcultures. Drawing on ethnographic data collected over 12 months from different youth cultural scenes, the authors describe the subcult…
Smoke-free air policy: Subcultural Shifts and Secondary Health Effects Among Club-Going Young Adults
In March 2003, New York City implemented legislation that called for a ban of smoking in bars, restaurants, nightclubs, and other establishments. The express purpose of this legislation was to protect the health of employees and patrons from second-hand smoke. In addition to the stated goal of protection from second-hand smoke for employees, key secondary health effects of this law have emerged in the lives of club-going youth. This paper is base…
The Intersection of Mutual Partner Violence and Substance Use Among Urban Gays, Lesbians, and Bisexuals
Intimate partner violence among gays and lesbians has gained increased attention in recent years. The present study assessed mutual partner violence within a gay, lesbian, bisexual (GLB) community sample to explore how mutual partner violence relates to the use of psychoactive substances. The results suggest that individuals engaging in mutual partner violence are more likely to report the use of numerous drugs than other subjects. However, this …
Prevalence and Predictors of Club Drug Use among Club-Going Young Adults in New York City
Denormalization, smoke-free air policy, and tobacco use among young adults
Together we have fun: Native-place networks and sexual risk behaviours among Chinese male rural-urban migrants
Some scholars argue that the maintenance of social networks contributes to the lower prevalence of deviant behaviours and fewer adverse health effects among migrants. But others suggest that if migrants are embedded in homogeneous networks, such networks may enable the formation of a deviant subculture that promotes risk taking. Facing this dilemma, the present study investigates how native-place networks influence sexual risk behaviours (SRBs), …
Undocumented Immigration, Drug Problems, and Driving Under the Influence in the United States, 1990–2014
Objectives. To examine the influence of undocumented immigration in the United States on 4 different metrics of drug and alcohol problems: drug arrests, drug overdose fatalities, driving under the influence (DUI) arrests, and DUI deaths. Methods. We combined newly developed state-level estimates of the undocumented population between 1990 and 2014 from the Center for Migration Studies with arrest data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation Unif…
Doing and Redoing Emphasized Femininity: How Women Use Emotion Work to Manage Competing Expectations in College Hookup Culture
A Multilevel Test of Constrained Choices Theory: The Case of Tobacco Clean Air Restrictions
According to Bird and Rieker's sociology of constrained choices, decisions and priorities concerning health are shaped by the contexts-including policy, community, and work/family-in which they are formulated. While each level received attention in the original and subsequent research, we contend their constrained choices theory provides a powerful multilevel framework for modeling health outcomes. We apply this framework to tobacco clean air res…
Sexual place, spatial change, and the social reorganization of sexual culture
This paper describes how the landscape of a public place in a New York City park embodies larger external structures within which sexual subjects actively organize local sexual culture. Controlling the configuration and utilization of such space is a technique of power used by the state apparatus. Based upon ethnographic fieldwork, we describe how the sexual culture situated within this public space is produced and reproduced in the micro-social …
Psychosocial Influences of the Escalation of Deviance: The Case of Prescription Drug Sniffing
The escalation of deviant behavior remains a central issue for criminologists, although mechanisms of intensification remain understudied. Using a sample of prescription drug misusers recruited via time-space sampling, we test five theoretically informed hypotheses on social and psychological factors - sensation seeking; coping; stigma; peer drug associations; use for pleasant times with peers - that may impact the escalation of deviance via non-…
Consumption and Community: The Subcultural Contexts of Disparate Marijuana Practices in Jam Band and Hip-Hop Scenes
The use of marijuana has become a normative illicit practice within many youth subcultures. As such it remains important to identify how subcultures shape the nuances of their respective participants' marijuana consumption practices and how these practices shape social interaction patterns. This research highlights how different subcultural contexts influence interaction rituals surrounding marijuana consumption. Findings are based on twelve mont…
Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescent Girls in Relationships with Older Partners: Causes and Lasting Effects
Moving Upstream: The Effect of Tobacco Clean Air Restrictions on Educational Inequalities in Smoking Among Young Adults
Education affords a range of direct and indirect benefits that promote longer and healthier lives and stratify health lifestyles. We use tobacco clean air policies to examine whether policies that apply universally—interventions that bypass individuals’ unequal access and ability to employ flexible resources to avoid health hazards—have an effect on educational inequalities in health behaviors. We test theoretically informed but competing hypothe…
Multiple Dimensions of Peer Effects and Deviance: The Case of Prescription Drug Misuse among Young Adults
Sociological research has demonstrated that peers play a role in patterns of deviance. Yet, examinations of competing mechanisms in continued patterns of deviance are less well developed. We simultaneously examine multiple peer mechanisms of action on prescription drug misuse. Results identify drug sources, peer group norms, and a desire to enhance social experiences as important factors in the frequency of misuse, non-oral administration, and de…
The Personal Experience of Community Among Urban Gay Men, Lesbians, and Bisexuals: Melting Pot or Mosaic
Objective “Gay community” is often conceptualized as a “melting pot” in which gay, lesbian, and bisexual (GLB) persons are united and integrated into one sexual minority community. Evidence, however, indicates that GLB community may also be conceptualized as a mosaic of sexual minority communities with differing goals and ideologies. We test the validity of these conceptions of community with respect to two facets of the personal experiences of G…
Policy influences on adolescent risk perceptions of vaping
AIMS: Electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) use by youth remains a significant public health concern. Perceived risk is an important predictor of adolescent ENDS use. While state policies have been shown to affect ENDS use, and perceived risk is inversely associated with use, whether policies shape adolescent risk perceptions remains less well studied. METHODS: We used longitudinal (2013-2019) US adolescent data from the Population Assessmen…
The Framing of Minority Threat and Moralization to Criminalize Behavior: The Case of Cannabis in the Early 20th Century
Understanding why particular behavior is encoded in law or other systems of rules has been a core topic of sociology since its inception. Although differing rhetorical frames have been identified in policy debates, little research directly links such rhetoric and policy passage. Centering framing theory, we use the case of U.S. cannabis criminalization via mixed-methods content analyses of 9,707 nationwide newspaper articles and event history ana…
Sibling disclosure and adolescents’ coping from before to during the Covid-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study
The extraordinary disruptions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic created a unique context to investigate the links between family communication and adolescent adjustment. Given that widespread stay-at-home orders increased time spent in the family setting, the present study examined reciprocal links between older and younger adolescent siblings' disclosure toward each other and concurrent and prospective links between those disclosures and the…
Direct and indirect effects of maternal and sibling intimacy on adolescents' volunteering via social responsibility values: A longitudinal study
This study investigates the direct and indirect effects of maternal and sibling relational intimacy on adolescents' volunteering behaviors via their social responsibility values. Participants included two adolescents (50% female; M age = 1 year) and one parent (85% female; M age = 45 years) from 682 families ( N = 2046) from an ongoing longitudinal study. Adolescents self-reported their intimacy with mothers and siblings (Time 1), social responsi…
On Encompassing Sexuality
Dr Meyer should be commended on his organization of the special issue of the Journal (June 2001), focused on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) health, which should raise awareness and bring new interest to LGBT concerns. My hope is that this issue enables the call for proposals and programs of which Meyer wrote1 and the examination, free of stigma and discrimination, of LGBT health concerns. In “Why Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transg…
What Was Socialism and What Comes Next
Catherine Verdery What Was Socialism and What Comes Next? Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. 298pp
What Would Durkheim Do?” a Comment on Kushner and Sterk
Kushner and Sterk1 presented an interesting assessment of whether Durkheim’s Suicide2 should be cited as evidence that low social cohesion yields greater morbidity and mortality—in other words, that lack of “social capital” is detrimental to population health. The authors highlight several crucial issues: enthusiasm for social capital should not overshadow the need for material provisions, public health applications of social capital have been “p…
Sexual place, spatial change, and the social reorganization of sexual culture
This paper describes how the landscape of a public place in a New York City park embodies larger external structures within which sexual subjects actively organize local sexual culture. Controlling the configuration and utilization of such space is a technique of power used by the state apparatus. Based upon ethnographic fieldwork, we describe how the sexual culture situated within this public space is produced and reproduced in the micro-social …
Bongs and Blunts: Notes from a Suburban Marijuana Subculture
Bongs and blunts constitute significant elements of marijuana consumption in the United States, especially among youth. The author draws upon ethnographic methods to provide rich descriptions of these practices amongst a network of suburban marijuana users. The author first provides a description of bong use in a suburban home prior to detailing the same youth network engaging in the process of rolling and smoking a blunt in a public environment.…
Prevalence and Predictors of Club Drug Use among Club-Going Young Adults in New York City
Explanations for the Origins of Sexual Compulsivity Among Gay and Bisexual Men
Stress and Coping Among HIV-Positive Barebackers
Mediating MDMA-Related Harm: Preloading and Post-loading Among Ecstasy-Using Youth
Ecstasy use remains a key concern for professionals working in fields related to youth and drug use. At the forefront of these concerns are issues related to neurological dysfunction and depression--both acute and long-term--associated with MDMA use. Ecstasy users have been shown to assess Ecstasy related harms and to engage in a variety of practices to manage these risks. To contend with risk related to neurological dysfunction and depression, s…
Sexual Compulsivity and Sexual Behaviors Among Gay and Bisexual Men and Lesbian and Bisexual Women
Within the existing body of research, the information pertaining to sexual compulsivity (SC) among women, both homo- and heterosexual, remains rather limited in comparison to men. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of SC in a community sample of gay and bisexual men and lesbian and bisexual women and to identify differences in sexual practices based on classification as sexually compulsive within gender. Supporting previous resear…
Smoke-free air policy: Subcultural Shifts and Secondary Health Effects Among Club-Going Young Adults
In March 2003, New York City implemented legislation that called for a ban of smoking in bars, restaurants, nightclubs, and other establishments. The express purpose of this legislation was to protect the health of employees and patrons from second-hand smoke. In addition to the stated goal of protection from second-hand smoke for employees, key secondary health effects of this law have emerged in the lives of club-going youth. This paper is base…
Prescription Drug Misuse and Sexual Risk Taking Among HIV-Negative MSM
Legally Tripping: A Qualitative Profile of Salvia Divinorum Use Among Young Adults
During recent years, there has been increasing interest in "legal highs" among youth and young adults. Salvia divinorum is a legally available hallucinogenic plant, primarily utilized in smokable form, that produces a brief but intense hallucinogenic experience for the user. Data are presented from an ethnographic project to provide a qualitative profile of salvia use among young adults. Most users report primarily using in home settings such as …
Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescent Girls in Relationships with Older Partners: Causes and Lasting Effects
Community and Drug Use among Gay Men: The Role of Neighborhoods and Networks
Gay neighborhoods serve as vital places for gay men's socializing, yet few studies have examined their contributions to gay men's health-either directly or indirectly via residents' social networks. Drawing from theoretical perspectives on community and networks, we test hypotheses concerning whether gay neighborhoods and social network factors are associated with patterns of recent illicit drug use among a sample of 740 urban gay men from New Yo…
The Intersection of Mutual Partner Violence and Substance Use Among Urban Gays, Lesbians, and Bisexuals
Intimate partner violence among gays and lesbians has gained increased attention in recent years. The present study assessed mutual partner violence within a gay, lesbian, bisexual (GLB) community sample to explore how mutual partner violence relates to the use of psychoactive substances. The results suggest that individuals engaging in mutual partner violence are more likely to report the use of numerous drugs than other subjects. However, this …
Gridlock: Labor, migration, and human trafficking in Dubai
Gridlock: Labor, migration, and human trafficking in Dubai." Global Public Health, 7(5), pp. 554–555
Sex and the community: The Implications of Neighbourhoods and Social Networks for Sexual Risk Behaviours Among Urban Gay Men
Gay neighbourhoods have historically served as vital places for gay socialising, and gay social networks are important sources of social support. Yet, few studies have examined the influence of these forms of community on sexual health. Informed by theoretical frameworks on neighbourhoods and networks, we employ multi-level modelling to test hypotheses concerning whether gay neighbourhoods and social network factors are associated with five sexua…
Prevalence and correlates of prescription drug misuse among socially active young adults
Predictors of Entry into Age-Discordant Relationships Among Adolescent Girls
Teenage girls in age-discordant relationships remain of concern for healthy development and well-being. We examine whether factors from several sociological frameworks—self-esteem, deviance, social ecology, family cohesion, and religious involvement—predict entry into such relationships. With longitudinal data on 1,537 adolescent girls, we use structural equation modeling to assess risk and protective factors by age group. Results indicate that f…
Exploring the Gay Community Question: Neighborhood and Network Influences on the Experience of Community among Urban Gay Men
The reported declining significance of gay neighborhoods has raised questions about the role of gay enclaves as a locus for community building. Using Wellman and Leighton's community “lost,” “saved,” and “liberated” frameworks, we examine the degree to which gay enclave residence and network socializing are associated with experiences of gay community among men in the New York City area. Multilevel models indicate that enclave residence is neithe…
Perceived risk of methamphetamine among Chinese methamphetamine users
The Personal Experience of Community Among Urban Gay Men, Lesbians, and Bisexuals: Melting Pot or Mosaic
Objective “Gay community” is often conceptualized as a “melting pot” in which gay, lesbian, and bisexual (GLB) persons are united and integrated into one sexual minority community. Evidence, however, indicates that GLB community may also be conceptualized as a mosaic of sexual minority communities with differing goals and ideologies. We test the validity of these conceptions of community with respect to two facets of the personal experiences of G…
Women on Ice: Methamphetamine Use among Suburban Women
Consumption and Community: The Subcultural Contexts of Disparate Marijuana Practices in Jam Band and Hip-Hop Scenes
The use of marijuana has become a normative illicit practice within many youth subcultures. As such it remains important to identify how subcultures shape the nuances of their respective participants' marijuana consumption practices and how these practices shape social interaction patterns. This research highlights how different subcultural contexts influence interaction rituals surrounding marijuana consumption. Findings are based on twelve mont…
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