Patricia G Erickson
Biographic Data
| ID | 253365 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia G Erickson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia G |
| FAMILY NAME | Erickson |
| SIGNATURE | ERICKSON P G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for Addiction and Mental Health |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 169 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Harmful gun behaviour and perceived collective efficacy: Evidence From a Cross-National Study of Youth Detainees
This paper examines the patterns of harmful weapon behavior and the protective influence of perceived collective efficacy on harmful weapon behavior among a cross-national sample of youth detainees in Toronto and Philadelphia. Despite different firearms policies, detained youth in both cities reveal considerable knowledge of where to get a gun. Multivariate analyses reveal that participating in gang fights, non-violent delinquency, and neighborho…
Pilot study of mental health and substance use of detained youths in Ontario, Canada
It's Really No Big Deal: The Role of Social Supply Networks in Normalizing Use of Cannabis by Students at Canadian Universities
Cannabis (marijuana) has undergone a normalizing process as indicated by high use rates, social tolerance, and broader cultural acceptance of its use in many countries. Users also maintain access through extended friendship networks that facilitate the cultural diffusion of the practice. The social nature of supply is herein theorized in terms of Goffman’s understanding of activities that function to preserve a sense of normalcy as a collective a…
Timeline Mapping in Qualitative Interviews: A Study of Resilience with Marginalized Groups
Growing interest in visual timeline methods signals a need for critical engagement. Drawing on critical emancipatory epistemologies in our study exploring resilience among marginalized groups, we investigate how the creation of visual timelines informs verbal semistructured interviewing. We consider both how experiences of drawing timelines and how the role of the timeline in interviews varied for South Asian immigrant women who experienced domes…
Cannabis, risk and normalisation: Evidence from a Canadian study of socially integrated, adult cannabis users
Howard Parker’s ‘normalisation thesis’ has made a significant contribution to youth drug studies in many countries. Parker’s thesis has been less investigated, however, for its application across the life course, and few scholars have considered its utility for assessments of the meaning and experience of drug-related health risks. This article adds to discussions of drugs, normalisation and risk by analysing qualitative data collected from 165 l…
Emergency departments and street-involved youth: Factors influencing utilization
Homeless youth often have untreated health problems and experience barriers to care. Existing evidence suggests that homeless youth use emergency departments (EDs) more frequently than other youth. We hypothesized that street youth with access to primary care services would be less likely to utilize EDs for health care. Data were drawn from a study of housing security and changes to it over time among 150 youth (16–20 years) recruited from servic…
Revisiting Deterrence: Legal Knowledge, Use Context and Arrest Perception for Cannabis
Deterrence research has evolved considerably since the 1970s when a favourite offence for study was the emerging phenomenon of widespread cannabis use among mainstream populations. The deterrent model of crime prevention has expanded far beyond the study of objective and subjective indicators of certainty and severity to encompass social support, moral evaluations, peer involvement and, most recently, risk sensitivity and situational factors. Mos…
Missed Conceptions: A Gendered Extension of Early Conception Among Street Youth
The moral sentiment concerning teenage pregnancy among unmarried youth is that it is an act of deviance or non-conformity. Using data from a multidisciplinary study of high-risk youth, this article explores the notion that early conception among street youth is an opportunity for youth to conform to the conventional societal role of becoming a parent, not an act of deviance. The article further highlights the importance of including young men in …
Child Maltreatment and Its Relationship to Drug Use in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Overview and Multinational Research Partnership
Concurrent Mental Health and Substance Use Problems among Street-Involved Youth
A Canadian perspective on cannabis normalization among adults
Once associated with ‘deviant’ subcultures, the use of cannabis is now common across Canadian society. This has led some to argue that cannabis use is becoming normalized in Canada with important implications for drug policy, law enforcement and public health. This article takes up these issues, reporting the results of a qualitative study involving 165, socially integrated, adult cannabis users in four Canadian cities (Vancouver, Montreal, Toron…
Cannabis normalization and stigma: Contemporary practices of moral regulation
Cannabis (marijuana) has undergone a normalizing process as indicated by high use rates, social tolerance, and broader cultural acceptance of its use in many countries. Yet, consistent with its status as a banned drug, users still face the threat of legal sanctions and experiences of stigma that challenge the assumptions of the normalization thesis. In this paper we shed light on extra-legal forms of stigma based on in-depth interviews with marij…
Exploring gender and sexual minority status among street-involved youth
This article compares heterosexual and sexual minority street-involved youth across a number of sociodemographic, risk and current mental health, victimization and delinquency measures with a particular focus on gender differences. The sample consists of 147 homeless and street-involved young men and women aged 16–21 years in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Bivariate analyses indicate that many of the differences between the heterosexual and sexual min…
Lower Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines: For Whom
A comparative study of the influence of collective efficacy on substance use among adolescent students in Philadelphia, Toronto, and Montreal
The purpose of this study was to describe the differences in illegal adolescent substance use among representative samples of secondary school students in Philadelphia (N = 712), Toronto (N = 983), and Montreal (N = 824) and apply a novel theoretical perspective. Collective efficacy is a widely cited criminological theory that has not been applied to minor forms of delinquency such as underage alcohol use and cannabis use. We examined the influen…
Normalization and harm reduction: Research avenues and policy agendas
Storying the street: Transition narratives of homeless youth
Toronto Youth Street Stories is an innovative, web-based storytelling project that was conducted with homeless youths in Toronto. As a collaborative knowledge dissemination initiative, the project engaged youthful participants, authors, community mentors, youth service agencies and university-based researchers. Over 50 youths were encouraged to express their personal perspectives through author-led, creative writing workshops, resulting in youth-…
Identity work among street-involved young mothers
The Youth Pathways Project tracked the life-course trajectories of street-involved young women (n=75) in Toronto over a one-year period. At first contact, 60% of these women had been pregnant, and 29% of those had children. In the interim leading up to the final interview 12 months later, five participants became pregnant and five had given birth. This paper examines the narratives of these 10 recently pregnant and/or newly parenting young women.…
Reprioritizing dependence and abuse: A comparison of cannabis clients in treatment with a nontreatment sample of users
Despite the growing literatures on cannabis dependence, and urgent declarations as to treatment need, there is a scarcity of data on cannabis problems as a primary reason for treatment. This article compares characteristics of cannabis treatment seekers with those of a nontreatment sample of users. Findings are reported from two independent studies that included items from the DSM-IV criteria for diagnosing substance dependence and abuse. Other s…
Teen Drug Sellers—An International Study of Segregated Drug Markets and Related Violence
This study explores patterns of drug dealing in a multi-site sample of detained youth. Data are derived from the Drugs, Alcohol, Violence International (DAVI) study of male and female adolescents between the ages of 14–17 in four metropolitan areas: Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Montreal (Canada), Philadelphia (US), and Toronto (Canada). In a sample of 764 juvenile detainees, 60% overall reported predetention involvement in selling drugs, but this…
Not this Time: Canadians, Public Policy and the Marijuana Question, 1961–1975
Not this Time: Canadians, Public Policy and the Marijuana Question, 1961–1975, Marcel Martel, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006, pp. x, 277.It is said of the 1960s, “If you can remember them, you weren't really there.” For those who need a refresher course, this book is an alternative to time travel. For the younger, post-1970s generation who literally were not there, this book tells them all they ever need to know about the history of C…
Girls and Weapons: An International Study of the Perpetration of Violence
Different Concepts of Ethnicity in a Cross-Atlantic Study of Violence and Drug Use among Deviant Youth
A Tale of Two Stimulants
Cocaine and tobacco occupy opposite ends of a legal continuum that is narrowing due to diminishing acceptance of cigarette smoking and increasing restrictions on tobacco sales, use, and promotion. This paper compares Canadian newspaper coverage of the two drugs with reference to the main themes, information sources, and policy positions presented in the late 1980s and late 1990s. Further content analysis, of 1998-2002 opinion-editorials, document…
Harm Reduction: A New Direction for Drug Policies and Programs
Timeline Mapping in Qualitative Interviews: A Study of Resilience with Marginalized Groups
Growing interest in visual timeline methods signals a need for critical engagement. Drawing on critical emancipatory epistemologies in our study exploring resilience among marginalized groups, we investigate how the creation of visual timelines informs verbal semistructured interviewing. We consider both how experiences of drawing timelines and how the role of the timeline in interviews varied for South Asian immigrant women who experienced domes…
Cannabis normalization and stigma: Contemporary practices of moral regulation
Cannabis (marijuana) has undergone a normalizing process as indicated by high use rates, social tolerance, and broader cultural acceptance of its use in many countries. Yet, consistent with its status as a banned drug, users still face the threat of legal sanctions and experiences of stigma that challenge the assumptions of the normalization thesis. In this paper we shed light on extra-legal forms of stigma based on in-depth interviews with marij…
Cross-sectional versus longitudinal research: An empirical comparison of projected and subsequent criminality
Identity work among street-involved young mothers
The Youth Pathways Project tracked the life-course trajectories of street-involved young women (n=75) in Toronto over a one-year period. At first contact, 60% of these women had been pregnant, and 29% of those had children. In the interim leading up to the final interview 12 months later, five participants became pregnant and five had given birth. This paper examines the narratives of these 10 recently pregnant and/or newly parenting young women.…
It's Really No Big Deal: The Role of Social Supply Networks in Normalizing Use of Cannabis by Students at Canadian Universities
Cannabis (marijuana) has undergone a normalizing process as indicated by high use rates, social tolerance, and broader cultural acceptance of its use in many countries. Users also maintain access through extended friendship networks that facilitate the cultural diffusion of the practice. The social nature of supply is herein theorized in terms of Goffman’s understanding of activities that function to preserve a sense of normalcy as a collective a…
Exploring gender and sexual minority status among street-involved youth
This article compares heterosexual and sexual minority street-involved youth across a number of sociodemographic, risk and current mental health, victimization and delinquency measures with a particular focus on gender differences. The sample consists of 147 homeless and street-involved young men and women aged 16–21 years in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Bivariate analyses indicate that many of the differences between the heterosexual and sexual min…
Between Prohibition and Legalization: The Dutch Experiment in Drug Policy
Different Concepts of Ethnicity in a Cross-Atlantic Study of Violence and Drug Use among Deviant Youth
Harm Reduction: A New Direction for Drug Policies and Programs
Neglected and Rejected: A Case Study of the Impact of Social Research on Canadian Drug Policy
Patricia G. Erickson, Neglected and Rejected: A Case Study of the Impact of Social Research on Canadian Drug Policy, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 23, No. 2/3 (Spring - Summer, 1998), pp. 263-280
Storying the street: Transition narratives of homeless youth
Toronto Youth Street Stories is an innovative, web-based storytelling project that was conducted with homeless youths in Toronto. As a collaborative knowledge dissemination initiative, the project engaged youthful participants, authors, community mentors, youth service agencies and university-based researchers. Over 50 youths were encouraged to express their personal perspectives through author-led, creative writing workshops, resulting in youth-…
Girls and Weapons: An International Study of the Perpetration of Violence
Teen Drug Sellers—An International Study of Segregated Drug Markets and Related Violence
This study explores patterns of drug dealing in a multi-site sample of detained youth. Data are derived from the Drugs, Alcohol, Violence International (DAVI) study of male and female adolescents between the ages of 14–17 in four metropolitan areas: Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Montreal (Canada), Philadelphia (US), and Toronto (Canada). In a sample of 764 juvenile detainees, 60% overall reported predetention involvement in selling drugs, but this…
The Defence Lawyer's Role in Juvenile Court: An Empirical Investigation into Judges' and Social Workers' Points of View
Patricia G. Erickson, The Defence Lawyer's Role in Juvenile Court: An Empirical Investigation into Judges' and Social Workers' Points of View, The University of Toronto Law Journal, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Spring, 1974), pp. 126-148
Pilot study of mental health and substance use of detained youths in Ontario, Canada
Revisiting Deterrence: Legal Knowledge, Use Context and Arrest Perception for Cannabis
Deterrence research has evolved considerably since the 1970s when a favourite offence for study was the emerging phenomenon of widespread cannabis use among mainstream populations. The deterrent model of crime prevention has expanded far beyond the study of objective and subjective indicators of certainty and severity to encompass social support, moral evaluations, peer involvement and, most recently, risk sensitivity and situational factors. Mos…
Harm Reduction: A New Direction for Drug Policies and Programs
Legal Stigma for Marijuana Possession
A field experiment demonstrated that (1) the more serious a person's criminal history involving marijuana, the fewer positive responses were received from potential employers and (2) positions requiring bonding received fewer acceptances than those that made no such specification. No interaction between the combined effects of bonding and criminal record occurred. The present and previous studies suggest that legal stigma from a criminal record m…
The Defence Lawyer's Role in Juvenile Court: An Empirical Investigation into Judges' and Social Workers' Points of View
Patricia G. Erickson, The Defence Lawyer's Role in Juvenile Court: An Empirical Investigation into Judges' and Social Workers' Points of View, The University of Toronto Law Journal, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Spring, 1974), pp. 126-148
Legal Stigma for Marijuana Possession
A field experiment demonstrated that (1) the more serious a person's criminal history involving marijuana, the fewer positive responses were received from potential employers and (2) positions requiring bonding received fewer acceptances than those that made no such specification. No interaction between the combined effects of bonding and criminal record occurred. The present and previous studies suggest that legal stigma from a criminal record m…
Theories on Drug Abuse: Selected Contemporary Perspectives
Diversion-A Panacea for Delinquency: Lessons from the Scottish Experience
Cross-sectional versus longitudinal research: An empirical comparison of projected and subsequent criminality
Between Prohibition and Legalization: The Dutch Experiment in Drug Policy
Neglected and Rejected: A Case Study of the Impact of Social Research on Canadian Drug Policy
Patricia G. Erickson, Neglected and Rejected: A Case Study of the Impact of Social Research on Canadian Drug Policy, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 23, No. 2/3 (Spring - Summer, 1998), pp. 263-280
Harm Reduction: A New Direction for Drug Policies and Programs
Harm reduction among cocaine users: Reflections on individual intervention and community social capital
Cannabis in Canada—a puzzling policy
Harm Reduction: A New Direction for Drug Policies and Programs
A Tale of Two Stimulants
Cocaine and tobacco occupy opposite ends of a legal continuum that is narrowing due to diminishing acceptance of cigarette smoking and increasing restrictions on tobacco sales, use, and promotion. This paper compares Canadian newspaper coverage of the two drugs with reference to the main themes, information sources, and policy positions presented in the late 1980s and late 1990s. Further content analysis, of 1998-2002 opinion-editorials, document…
Girls and Weapons: An International Study of the Perpetration of Violence
Different Concepts of Ethnicity in a Cross-Atlantic Study of Violence and Drug Use among Deviant Youth
Reprioritizing dependence and abuse: A comparison of cannabis clients in treatment with a nontreatment sample of users
Despite the growing literatures on cannabis dependence, and urgent declarations as to treatment need, there is a scarcity of data on cannabis problems as a primary reason for treatment. This article compares characteristics of cannabis treatment seekers with those of a nontreatment sample of users. Findings are reported from two independent studies that included items from the DSM-IV criteria for diagnosing substance dependence and abuse. Other s…
Teen Drug Sellers—An International Study of Segregated Drug Markets and Related Violence
This study explores patterns of drug dealing in a multi-site sample of detained youth. Data are derived from the Drugs, Alcohol, Violence International (DAVI) study of male and female adolescents between the ages of 14–17 in four metropolitan areas: Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Montreal (Canada), Philadelphia (US), and Toronto (Canada). In a sample of 764 juvenile detainees, 60% overall reported predetention involvement in selling drugs, but this…
Not this Time: Canadians, Public Policy and the Marijuana Question, 1961–1975
Not this Time: Canadians, Public Policy and the Marijuana Question, 1961–1975, Marcel Martel, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006, pp. x, 277.It is said of the 1960s, “If you can remember them, you weren't really there.” For those who need a refresher course, this book is an alternative to time travel. For the younger, post-1970s generation who literally were not there, this book tells them all they ever need to know about the history of C…
Storying the street: Transition narratives of homeless youth
Toronto Youth Street Stories is an innovative, web-based storytelling project that was conducted with homeless youths in Toronto. As a collaborative knowledge dissemination initiative, the project engaged youthful participants, authors, community mentors, youth service agencies and university-based researchers. Over 50 youths were encouraged to express their personal perspectives through author-led, creative writing workshops, resulting in youth-…
Identity work among street-involved young mothers
The Youth Pathways Project tracked the life-course trajectories of street-involved young women (n=75) in Toronto over a one-year period. At first contact, 60% of these women had been pregnant, and 29% of those had children. In the interim leading up to the final interview 12 months later, five participants became pregnant and five had given birth. This paper examines the narratives of these 10 recently pregnant and/or newly parenting young women.…
A comparative study of the influence of collective efficacy on substance use among adolescent students in Philadelphia, Toronto, and Montreal
The purpose of this study was to describe the differences in illegal adolescent substance use among representative samples of secondary school students in Philadelphia (N = 712), Toronto (N = 983), and Montreal (N = 824) and apply a novel theoretical perspective. Collective efficacy is a widely cited criminological theory that has not been applied to minor forms of delinquency such as underage alcohol use and cannabis use. We examined the influen…
Normalization and harm reduction: Research avenues and policy agendas
Child Maltreatment and Its Relationship to Drug Use in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Overview and Multinational Research Partnership
Concurrent Mental Health and Substance Use Problems among Street-Involved Youth
A Canadian perspective on cannabis normalization among adults
Once associated with ‘deviant’ subcultures, the use of cannabis is now common across Canadian society. This has led some to argue that cannabis use is becoming normalized in Canada with important implications for drug policy, law enforcement and public health. This article takes up these issues, reporting the results of a qualitative study involving 165, socially integrated, adult cannabis users in four Canadian cities (Vancouver, Montreal, Toron…
Cannabis normalization and stigma: Contemporary practices of moral regulation
Cannabis (marijuana) has undergone a normalizing process as indicated by high use rates, social tolerance, and broader cultural acceptance of its use in many countries. Yet, consistent with its status as a banned drug, users still face the threat of legal sanctions and experiences of stigma that challenge the assumptions of the normalization thesis. In this paper we shed light on extra-legal forms of stigma based on in-depth interviews with marij…
Psychology (30 works) · Political science (19 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Criminology (17 works) · Psychiatry (16 works) · Medicine (15 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (12 works)