Eric D Anderson
Biographic Data
| ID | 234728 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric D Anderson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric D |
| FAMILY NAME | Anderson |
| SIGNATURE | ANDERSON E D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3930-4461 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Resident Perspectives on a Pre-booking Diversion Program
Numerous cities are experimenting with pre-booking diversion programs that allow police officers to divert community members to supportive services in instances that would otherwise result in arrest and prosecution. These programs aim to decrease harmful involvement with the criminal justice system while reducing crime and public disorder. Although previous research has explored the experiences of people receiving diversion referrals and of polic…
Co-Deployment is an Answer, but What are the Questions? Insights from Officer Focus Groups in Philadelphia
Cities have been experimenting with less police-centered models for responding to people experiencing mental health crises. Ten focus groups were conducted with Philadelphia police officers to understand their experiences encountering mental health distress in the community and their perspectives on a new co-deployment initiative. There was general consensus that conventional police-centered responses to mental health concerns are often problemat…
Which Skills Are Key to Public Health Leaders’ Success in Crisis Management
Under-resourced and fragmented public health infrastructure has contributed to a poor pandemic response in the United States. There have been calls to redesign the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and to increase its budget. Lawmakers also have introduced bills aiming to change public health emergency powers at the local, state, and federal levels. Public health is ripe for reform, but reorganization and enhanced funding will not addres…
Experiences with the Philadelphia police assisted diversion program: A qualitative study
Employment Perceptions of Parolees: The Role of Perceived Barriers and Criminal Thinking
This study explored offenders’ perception of their barriers to employment and investigated the role of criminal attitudes in parolees recently released from prison. An analysis of open-ended responses from offenders indicated that they perceived having a criminal record as the largest barrier to employment. Structural equation modeling, utilizing a cross-sectional design, indicated moderate support for a model of criminal thinking as a predictor …
“We have to be uncomfortable and creative”: Reflections on the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on overdose prevention, harm reduction & homelessness advocacy in Philadelphia
The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing service delivery interruptions had serious impacts on people who use drugs (PWUD) and people experiencing homelessness, including instability in the drug supply, decreased access to substance use disorder (SUD) treatment and harm reduction supplies, increased substance use and relapse due to stress and isolation, inability to properly isolate and quarantine without stable housing, and risk of COVID-19 spread in c…
Missed opportunities: Arrest and court touchpoints for individuals who fatally overdosed in Philadelphia in 2016
Perceptions about supervised injection facilities among people who inject drugs in Philadelphia
Policing and public health: Not quite the right analogy
Policing matters to public health, and it makes sense to consider how greater cooperation and even integration between health and law enforcement systems might lead to new and better approaches to chronic problems at the intersection of health and security. The fact that policing is important to public health does not mean, however, that police work is ‘like’ public health work, let alone that police agencies and public health agencies share impo…
Child passenger safety laws in the United States, 1978-2010: Policy diffusion in the absence of strong federal intervention
Legal Regulation of Health-Related Behavior: A Half Century of Public Health Law Research
Legal intervention to influence individual health behavior has increased dramatically since the 1960s. This article describes the rise of law as a tool of public health and the scientific research that has assessed and often guided it, with a focus on five major domains: traffic safety, gun violence, tobacco use, reproductive health, and obesity. These topical stories illustrate both law's effectiveness and its limitations as a public health tool…
An investigation of ethnicity as a variable related to US male college athletes' sexual-orientation behaviours and attitudes
While most often forbidden by university policy, homophobic attitudes and intolerance of gay/lesbian athletes may still exist within intercollegiate athletic departments. Against this backdrop, this study examines attitudes towards sexual orientation from a sample of Division I and III male university athletes (n=397) from four universities in the south-eastern United States. The study's primary research questions are: a) utilizing ethnicity as t…
The Law (and Politics) of Safe Injection Facilities in the United States
Safe injection facilities (SIFs) have shown promise in reducing harms and social costs associated with injection drug use. Favorable evaluations elsewhere have raised the issue of their implementation in the United States. Recognizing that laws shape health interventions targeting drug users, we analyzed the legal environment for publicly authorized SIFs in the United States. Although states and some municipalities have the power to authorize SIF…
Using the master's tools: Resisting colonization through colonial sports
This ethnographic research analyses the relationship between colonial sports and traditional Navajo culture. It finds that while the Navajo have fully ingrained colonial sports into their culture, they have not necessarily adopted the colonial meanings of individualism and dominance associated with those sports. Sports like basketball and baseball are shown to provide the Navajo with recreation and entertainment; but most significantly, they seem…
An investigation of ethnicity as a variable related to US male college athletes' sexual-orientation behaviours and attitudes
While most often forbidden by university policy, homophobic attitudes and intolerance of gay/lesbian athletes may still exist within intercollegiate athletic departments. Against this backdrop, this study examines attitudes towards sexual orientation from a sample of Division I and III male university athletes (n=397) from four universities in the south-eastern United States. The study's primary research questions are: a) utilizing ethnicity as t…
Child passenger safety laws in the United States, 1978-2010: Policy diffusion in the absence of strong federal intervention
The Law (and Politics) of Safe Injection Facilities in the United States
Safe injection facilities (SIFs) have shown promise in reducing harms and social costs associated with injection drug use. Favorable evaluations elsewhere have raised the issue of their implementation in the United States. Recognizing that laws shape health interventions targeting drug users, we analyzed the legal environment for publicly authorized SIFs in the United States. Although states and some municipalities have the power to authorize SIF…
Legal Regulation of Health-Related Behavior: A Half Century of Public Health Law Research
Legal intervention to influence individual health behavior has increased dramatically since the 1960s. This article describes the rise of law as a tool of public health and the scientific research that has assessed and often guided it, with a focus on five major domains: traffic safety, gun violence, tobacco use, reproductive health, and obesity. These topical stories illustrate both law's effectiveness and its limitations as a public health tool…
Policing and public health: Not quite the right analogy
Policing matters to public health, and it makes sense to consider how greater cooperation and even integration between health and law enforcement systems might lead to new and better approaches to chronic problems at the intersection of health and security. The fact that policing is important to public health does not mean, however, that police work is ‘like’ public health work, let alone that police agencies and public health agencies share impo…
Using the master's tools: Resisting colonization through colonial sports
This ethnographic research analyses the relationship between colonial sports and traditional Navajo culture. It finds that while the Navajo have fully ingrained colonial sports into their culture, they have not necessarily adopted the colonial meanings of individualism and dominance associated with those sports. Sports like basketball and baseball are shown to provide the Navajo with recreation and entertainment; but most significantly, they seem…
Using the master's tools: Resisting colonization through colonial sports
This ethnographic research analyses the relationship between colonial sports and traditional Navajo culture. It finds that while the Navajo have fully ingrained colonial sports into their culture, they have not necessarily adopted the colonial meanings of individualism and dominance associated with those sports. Sports like basketball and baseball are shown to provide the Navajo with recreation and entertainment; but most significantly, they seem…
The Law (and Politics) of Safe Injection Facilities in the United States
Safe injection facilities (SIFs) have shown promise in reducing harms and social costs associated with injection drug use. Favorable evaluations elsewhere have raised the issue of their implementation in the United States. Recognizing that laws shape health interventions targeting drug users, we analyzed the legal environment for publicly authorized SIFs in the United States. Although states and some municipalities have the power to authorize SIF…
An investigation of ethnicity as a variable related to US male college athletes' sexual-orientation behaviours and attitudes
While most often forbidden by university policy, homophobic attitudes and intolerance of gay/lesbian athletes may still exist within intercollegiate athletic departments. Against this backdrop, this study examines attitudes towards sexual orientation from a sample of Division I and III male university athletes (n=397) from four universities in the south-eastern United States. The study's primary research questions are: a) utilizing ethnicity as t…
Legal Regulation of Health-Related Behavior: A Half Century of Public Health Law Research
Legal intervention to influence individual health behavior has increased dramatically since the 1960s. This article describes the rise of law as a tool of public health and the scientific research that has assessed and often guided it, with a focus on five major domains: traffic safety, gun violence, tobacco use, reproductive health, and obesity. These topical stories illustrate both law's effectiveness and its limitations as a public health tool…
Child passenger safety laws in the United States, 1978-2010: Policy diffusion in the absence of strong federal intervention
Policing and public health: Not quite the right analogy
Policing matters to public health, and it makes sense to consider how greater cooperation and even integration between health and law enforcement systems might lead to new and better approaches to chronic problems at the intersection of health and security. The fact that policing is important to public health does not mean, however, that police work is ‘like’ public health work, let alone that police agencies and public health agencies share impo…
Perceptions about supervised injection facilities among people who inject drugs in Philadelphia
Missed opportunities: Arrest and court touchpoints for individuals who fatally overdosed in Philadelphia in 2016
Employment Perceptions of Parolees: The Role of Perceived Barriers and Criminal Thinking
This study explored offenders’ perception of their barriers to employment and investigated the role of criminal attitudes in parolees recently released from prison. An analysis of open-ended responses from offenders indicated that they perceived having a criminal record as the largest barrier to employment. Structural equation modeling, utilizing a cross-sectional design, indicated moderate support for a model of criminal thinking as a predictor …
“We have to be uncomfortable and creative”: Reflections on the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on overdose prevention, harm reduction & homelessness advocacy in Philadelphia
The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing service delivery interruptions had serious impacts on people who use drugs (PWUD) and people experiencing homelessness, including instability in the drug supply, decreased access to substance use disorder (SUD) treatment and harm reduction supplies, increased substance use and relapse due to stress and isolation, inability to properly isolate and quarantine without stable housing, and risk of COVID-19 spread in c…
Experiences with the Philadelphia police assisted diversion program: A qualitative study
Co-Deployment is an Answer, but What are the Questions? Insights from Officer Focus Groups in Philadelphia
Cities have been experimenting with less police-centered models for responding to people experiencing mental health crises. Ten focus groups were conducted with Philadelphia police officers to understand their experiences encountering mental health distress in the community and their perspectives on a new co-deployment initiative. There was general consensus that conventional police-centered responses to mental health concerns are often problemat…
Which Skills Are Key to Public Health Leaders’ Success in Crisis Management
Under-resourced and fragmented public health infrastructure has contributed to a poor pandemic response in the United States. There have been calls to redesign the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and to increase its budget. Lawmakers also have introduced bills aiming to change public health emergency powers at the local, state, and federal levels. Public health is ripe for reform, but reorganization and enhanced funding will not addres…
Resident Perspectives on a Pre-booking Diversion Program
Numerous cities are experimenting with pre-booking diversion programs that allow police officers to divert community members to supportive services in instances that would otherwise result in arrest and prosecution. These programs aim to decrease harmful involvement with the criminal justice system while reducing crime and public disorder. Although previous research has explored the experiences of people receiving diversion referrals and of polic…
Medicine (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Business (6 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Environmental health (5 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (5 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (5 works)