Ric Curtis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3693896 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ric Curtis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ric |
| FAMILY NAME | Curtis |
| SIGNATURE | CURTIS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | John Jay College of Criminal Justice |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Perspectives on supervised injection facilities among service industry employees in New York City: A qualitative exploration
Drug use in business bathrooms: An exploratory study of manager encounters in New York City
Between Choice and Obligation: An Exploratory Assessment of Forced Marriage Problems and Policies among Migrants in the United States
Recently, in the United States (US) there has been increasing interest in and advocacy for developing research and policies that identify and address what has, in the European context, been called child and forced marriage, in which migrant parents, typically from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia (MENASA) impose marital choices on their Western-raised children, through coercion, psychological pressure, or the threat of violence. Despi…
The portapotty experiment: Neoliberal approaches to the intertwined epidemics of opioid-related overdose and HIV/HCV, and why we need cultural anthropologists in the South Bronx
Cheaper drugs, and thus less crime: The crime drop’s “Philosopher’s Stone”
“More drugs, less crime”: Why crime dropped in New York City, 1985–2007
Pimping and Profitability: Testing the Economics of Trafficking in Street Sex Markets in Atlantic City, New Jersey
Human trafficking has been identified as the second or third most profitable illicit business on the planet. Underlying these claims and billions of dollars in policy funding since the 1990s is an economics of human trafficking built heavily on two assumptions. The first is that nonconsensual labor is more profitable than consensual labor with minors being particularly profitable due to their ubiquity and inability to effectively consent. The sec…
Tell It to the Judge: Procedural Justice and a Community Court in Brooklyn
Based on direct observation inside and outside the courts and on interviews with one hundred residents and two hundred previous offenders, this article examines the performance of procedural justice in a community court in the Red Hook neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. Results show that the community court is widely praised compared to the downtown Brooklyn courts and in sharp contrast to police enforcement. The content of this praise suggests …
HIV/Aids in Puerto Rican People Who Inject Drugs: Policy Considerations
We commend the important work of Deren et al. that underscores the high rates of HIV among Puerto Rican people who inject drugs (PRPWID) and highlights the health, social, and service disparities between Puerto Rico and the Northeast US region. As articulated in their article, HIV/AIDS risk and substance use are not individual problems with individual consequences—the epidemic impacts community and culture, across borders and boundaries. In addit…
Conflict and Agency among Sex Workers and Pimps: A Closer Look at Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking
The dominant understanding in the United States of the relationship between pimps and minors involved in commercial sex is that it is one of "child sex trafficking," in which pimps lure girls into prostitution, then control, exploit, and brutalize them. Such narratives of oppression typically depend on postarrest testimonials by former prostitutes and pimps in punishment and rescue institutions. In contrast, this article presents data collected f…
Implementing Policy for Invisible Populations: Social Work and Social Policy in a Federal Anti-Trafficking Taskforce in the United States
In the United States, the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) has been one of the principal foci in the fight against human trafficking during the past decade with billions of dollars spent and hundreds of thousands of helping professionals trained in anti-trafficking best practices. Despite this attention, prosecutions, convictions and rescues have been scarce relative to funding, leading critical scholars to argue that CSEC is a m…
Is Child to Adult as Victim is to Criminal: Social Policy and Street-Based Sex Work in the USA
Forum: The prison reentry industry
Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug. By Paul Gootenberg
Heroin Cut with Morphine: An Ethnographic-Forensic Chemistry Case Study
This article uses a novel combination of ethnographic fieldwork and forensic chemical analysis to examine a single case study in order to illuminate the issue of adulterating illegal drugs with particular attention directed to the public health implications of these practices. Our analysis of an unknown powder acquired on the streets of New York City produced information that may be useful to health care practitioners and policy makers and demons…
Mike Agar: The Story of Crack
Crack, Cocaine and Heroin: Drug Eras in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 1960-2000
This article traces the development of crack markets in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in the period 1980-2000. It seeks to explain why crack appeared so late on the scene there and why, when it did, its markets were different from those found in many other neighborhoods. The article is based upon more than 20 years of ethnographic observations in Williamsburg and adjacent neighborhoods, and upon in-depth interviews with drug distributors, users and neig…
Coexisting in the real world: The problems, surprises and delights of being an ethnographer on a multidisciplinary research project
Quality of Life Obsessions and the Micro‐management of Behavior
Tolerância zero: A Má Interpretação Dos Resultados
As estratégias e a realidade do policiamento praticado nas ruas de Nova Iorque têm mudado dramaticamente nos últimos vinte anos. Programas agressivos visando a apreensão de armas e drogas são os principais objetivos das novas estratégias anticrime. Enquanto as taxas de criminalidade têm sido as mais baixas em 30 anos, as prisões por pequenos delitos são as mais altas de todos tempos. Existem poucas evidências para sugerir que o mercado de venda d…
Conflict and Agency among Sex Workers and Pimps: A Closer Look at Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking
The dominant understanding in the United States of the relationship between pimps and minors involved in commercial sex is that it is one of "child sex trafficking," in which pimps lure girls into prostitution, then control, exploit, and brutalize them. Such narratives of oppression typically depend on postarrest testimonials by former prostitutes and pimps in punishment and rescue institutions. In contrast, this article presents data collected f…
Is Child to Adult as Victim is to Criminal: Social Policy and Street-Based Sex Work in the USA
Implementing Policy for Invisible Populations: Social Work and Social Policy in a Federal Anti-Trafficking Taskforce in the United States
In the United States, the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) has been one of the principal foci in the fight against human trafficking during the past decade with billions of dollars spent and hundreds of thousands of helping professionals trained in anti-trafficking best practices. Despite this attention, prosecutions, convictions and rescues have been scarce relative to funding, leading critical scholars to argue that CSEC is a m…
Pimping and Profitability: Testing the Economics of Trafficking in Street Sex Markets in Atlantic City, New Jersey
Human trafficking has been identified as the second or third most profitable illicit business on the planet. Underlying these claims and billions of dollars in policy funding since the 1990s is an economics of human trafficking built heavily on two assumptions. The first is that nonconsensual labor is more profitable than consensual labor with minors being particularly profitable due to their ubiquity and inability to effectively consent. The sec…
Tolerância zero: A Má Interpretação Dos Resultados
As estratégias e a realidade do policiamento praticado nas ruas de Nova Iorque têm mudado dramaticamente nos últimos vinte anos. Programas agressivos visando a apreensão de armas e drogas são os principais objetivos das novas estratégias anticrime. Enquanto as taxas de criminalidade têm sido as mais baixas em 30 anos, as prisões por pequenos delitos são as mais altas de todos tempos. Existem poucas evidências para sugerir que o mercado de venda d…
Between Choice and Obligation: An Exploratory Assessment of Forced Marriage Problems and Policies among Migrants in the United States
Recently, in the United States (US) there has been increasing interest in and advocacy for developing research and policies that identify and address what has, in the European context, been called child and forced marriage, in which migrant parents, typically from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia (MENASA) impose marital choices on their Western-raised children, through coercion, psychological pressure, or the threat of violence. Despi…
Tell It to the Judge: Procedural Justice and a Community Court in Brooklyn
Based on direct observation inside and outside the courts and on interviews with one hundred residents and two hundred previous offenders, this article examines the performance of procedural justice in a community court in the Red Hook neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. Results show that the community court is widely praised compared to the downtown Brooklyn courts and in sharp contrast to police enforcement. The content of this praise suggests …
Coexisting in the real world: The problems, surprises and delights of being an ethnographer on a multidisciplinary research project
Quality of Life Obsessions and the Micro‐management of Behavior
Tolerância zero: A Má Interpretação Dos Resultados
As estratégias e a realidade do policiamento praticado nas ruas de Nova Iorque têm mudado dramaticamente nos últimos vinte anos. Programas agressivos visando a apreensão de armas e drogas são os principais objetivos das novas estratégias anticrime. Enquanto as taxas de criminalidade têm sido as mais baixas em 30 anos, as prisões por pequenos delitos são as mais altas de todos tempos. Existem poucas evidências para sugerir que o mercado de venda d…
Heroin Cut with Morphine: An Ethnographic-Forensic Chemistry Case Study
This article uses a novel combination of ethnographic fieldwork and forensic chemical analysis to examine a single case study in order to illuminate the issue of adulterating illegal drugs with particular attention directed to the public health implications of these practices. Our analysis of an unknown powder acquired on the streets of New York City produced information that may be useful to health care practitioners and policy makers and demons…
Mike Agar: The Story of Crack
Crack, Cocaine and Heroin: Drug Eras in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 1960-2000
This article traces the development of crack markets in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in the period 1980-2000. It seeks to explain why crack appeared so late on the scene there and why, when it did, its markets were different from those found in many other neighborhoods. The article is based upon more than 20 years of ethnographic observations in Williamsburg and adjacent neighborhoods, and upon in-depth interviews with drug distributors, users and neig…
Forum: The prison reentry industry
Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug. By Paul Gootenberg
Is Child to Adult as Victim is to Criminal: Social Policy and Street-Based Sex Work in the USA
Implementing Policy for Invisible Populations: Social Work and Social Policy in a Federal Anti-Trafficking Taskforce in the United States
In the United States, the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) has been one of the principal foci in the fight against human trafficking during the past decade with billions of dollars spent and hundreds of thousands of helping professionals trained in anti-trafficking best practices. Despite this attention, prosecutions, convictions and rescues have been scarce relative to funding, leading critical scholars to argue that CSEC is a m…
Conflict and Agency among Sex Workers and Pimps: A Closer Look at Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking
The dominant understanding in the United States of the relationship between pimps and minors involved in commercial sex is that it is one of "child sex trafficking," in which pimps lure girls into prostitution, then control, exploit, and brutalize them. Such narratives of oppression typically depend on postarrest testimonials by former prostitutes and pimps in punishment and rescue institutions. In contrast, this article presents data collected f…
HIV/Aids in Puerto Rican People Who Inject Drugs: Policy Considerations
We commend the important work of Deren et al. that underscores the high rates of HIV among Puerto Rican people who inject drugs (PRPWID) and highlights the health, social, and service disparities between Puerto Rico and the Northeast US region. As articulated in their article, HIV/AIDS risk and substance use are not individual problems with individual consequences—the epidemic impacts community and culture, across borders and boundaries. In addit…
The portapotty experiment: Neoliberal approaches to the intertwined epidemics of opioid-related overdose and HIV/HCV, and why we need cultural anthropologists in the South Bronx
Cheaper drugs, and thus less crime: The crime drop’s “Philosopher’s Stone”
“More drugs, less crime”: Why crime dropped in New York City, 1985–2007
Pimping and Profitability: Testing the Economics of Trafficking in Street Sex Markets in Atlantic City, New Jersey
Human trafficking has been identified as the second or third most profitable illicit business on the planet. Underlying these claims and billions of dollars in policy funding since the 1990s is an economics of human trafficking built heavily on two assumptions. The first is that nonconsensual labor is more profitable than consensual labor with minors being particularly profitable due to their ubiquity and inability to effectively consent. The sec…
Tell It to the Judge: Procedural Justice and a Community Court in Brooklyn
Based on direct observation inside and outside the courts and on interviews with one hundred residents and two hundred previous offenders, this article examines the performance of procedural justice in a community court in the Red Hook neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. Results show that the community court is widely praised compared to the downtown Brooklyn courts and in sharp contrast to police enforcement. The content of this praise suggests …
Drug use in business bathrooms: An exploratory study of manager encounters in New York City
Between Choice and Obligation: An Exploratory Assessment of Forced Marriage Problems and Policies among Migrants in the United States
Recently, in the United States (US) there has been increasing interest in and advocacy for developing research and policies that identify and address what has, in the European context, been called child and forced marriage, in which migrant parents, typically from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia (MENASA) impose marital choices on their Western-raised children, through coercion, psychological pressure, or the threat of violence. Despi…
Perspectives on supervised injection facilities among service industry employees in New York City: A qualitative exploration
Sociology (15 works) · Criminology (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (11 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Ethnography (5 works) · Sex work and related issues (5 works)