Kathryn Graham
Biographic Data
| ID | 85140 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn Graham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn |
| FAMILY NAME | Graham |
| SIGNATURE | GRAHAM K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for Addiction and Mental Health |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3318-3598 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 67 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 107 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 67 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
A clarion call to the addiction science community: It's time to resist the anti-scientific policies of the US Trump administration
A global review of the impact on women from men’s alcohol drinking: The need for responding with a gendered lens
BACKGROUND: Global evidence shows that men's harmful alcohol use contributes to intimate partner violence (IPV) and other harms. Yet, interventions that target alcohol-related harms to women are scarce. Quantitative analyses demonstrate links with physical and verbal aggression; however, the specific harms to women from men's drinking have not been well articulated, particularly from an international perspective. AIM: To document the breadth and …
Reducing alcohol harms whilst minimising impact on hospitality businesses: ‘Sweetspot’ policy options
Alcohol policies that protect public health do not necessarily harm bars. • ‘Sweetspot’ policies are those which can improve public health without affecting hospitality businesses. • There is good evidence that increasing the price of shop-bought alcohol is a sweetspot policy. • Restricting remote/online alcohol sales is also a likely sweetspot policy. • Measures to shape or manage the night-time economy are less well supported by evidence. Durin…
She Should be Smart Enough To Know, Hey, These Things Can Happen”: Identifying Men’s Perceptions, Attitudes and Beliefs About Sexual Aggression Toward Women in Drinking Venues and The Implications for…
Sexual aggression (SA) by men toward women, including harassment and unwanted sexual touching, is ubiquitous in drinking venues. Focus groups with 38 male volunteers aged 19-26 were used to articulate men’s perceptions, attitudes, and beliefs (PABs) related to SA in drinking venues for future development of a comprehensive questionnaire. Three cross-cutting themes relevant to prevention emerged from discussions structured using a 6-dimensional th…
Can alcohol policy prevent harms to women and children from men's alcohol consumption? An overview of existing literature and suggested ways forward
Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity: Research and public policy
This book is about alcohol policy: why it is needed, how it is made, and the impact it has on health and well-being. It is written for both policymakers and alcohol scientists, as well as the many other people interested in bridging the gap between research and policy. It begins with a global review of epidemiological evidence showing why alcohol is not an ordinary commodity, and it ends with the conclusion that alcohol policies implemented withi…
A gender-focused multilevel analysis of how country, regional and individual level factors relate to harm from others’ drinking
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to examine how gender, age and education, regional prevalence of male and female risky drinking and country-level economic gender equality are associated with harms from other people's drinking. METHODS: 24,823 adults in ten countries were surveyed about harms from drinking by people they know and strangers. Country-level economic gender equality and regional prevalence of risky drinking along with age and ge…
Noticed and then Forgotten: Gender in Alcohol Policy Stakeholder Responses to Alcohol and Violence
In this article, we analyse interview data on how alcohol policy stakeholders in Australia, Canada and Sweden understand the relationship between men, masculinities, alcohol and violence. Using influential feminist scholarship on public policy and liberal political theory to analyse interviews with 42 alcohol policy stakeholders, we argue that while these stakeholders view men’s violence as a key issue for intervention, masculinities are backgrou…
Association between Bar Closing Time, Alcohol Use Disorders and Blood Alcohol Concentration: A Cross-Sectional Observational Study of Nightlife-Goers in Perth, Australia
Introduction and aims: Associations between bar trading hours, a government lever for controlling alcohol availability, nightlife-goer intoxication levels and their likelihood of alcohol use disorder (AUD) have not been explored. We investigated whether: (i) participant AUD was associated with blood alcohol concentration (BAC); and, (ii) any association between AUD and BAC was moderated by participant preferred bar (i.e., venue spent most time at…
Gendering practices in quantitative research on alcohol and violence: Comparing research from Australia, Canada and Sweden
The hammer and the nail: The triple lock of methods, realities and institutional contexts in Australian research on nightlife violence
Part of Culture or Toxic Substance? Realities in Transition in Australian and Canadian Alcohol Policy Documents
This article analyzes alcohol policy documents through the framework of ontological politics developed by science and technology studies theorists John Law and Annemarie Mol. Specifically, it analyzes seven Australian and Canadian documents from 2006 to 2020, focusing on different enactments of alcohol as a harm-producing substance that requires regulation. The article identifies and discusses two co-existing realities of alcohol enacted in these…
Anishinabek sources of strength: Learning from First Nations people who have experienced mental health and substance use challenges
We report on the system of care and sources of strength and resilience for mental health among First Nations People experiencing the impacts of historical and contemporary colonization. Aamjiwnaang First Nation, a vibrant community of approximately 2400 members in southwestern Ontario, Canada, partnered in research to reveal sources of strength and resilience among community members with lived experiences (PWLE) with mental health and/or substanc…
Association between Nightlife Goers’ Likelihood of an Alcohol Use Disorder and Their Preferred Bar’s Closing Time: A Cross-Sectional Observational Study in Perth, Australia
Our study adds new evidence on associations between likelihood of AUD among nightlife-goers and trading hours. With increasing international relaxation of trading hours, evidence that late closing bars may be preferred by hazardous drinking females will be of concern to policymakers wanting to curb alcohol-related harms in the community
Male Barroom Aggression among Members of the Australian Construction Industry: Associations with Heavy Episodic Drinking, Trait Variables and Masculinity Factors
Introduction and Aims: Past research indicates heavy episodic drinking (HED), trait aggression, male honour and conformity to masculine norms are risk factors for male barroom aggression (MBA) perpetration. However, little is known about the impact of these variables on experiences of MBA victimization. Further, data derived previously, particularly in relation to perpetration have come from relatively low-risk samples comprising university stude…
Do gender differences in the relationship between living with children and alcohol consumption vary by societal gender inequality
Understanding risk‐based licensing schemes for alcohol outlets: A key informant perspective
Making gender along the way: Women, men and harm in Australian alcohol policy
Analysis of alcohol policy suggests women are marked out for special attention while men and masculinities are often ignored. In this paper, we employ Carol Bacchi’s work on ‘gendering practices’ and John Law’s concept of ‘collateral realities’ to examine how gender is constituted in Australian alcohol policy. For Bacchi, policies actively produce what it is possible for ‘men’ and ‘women’ to become. For Law, realities are constituted through meth…
Relationship trajectories of women experiencing alcohol-related intimate partner violence: A grounded-theory analysis of women's voices
The rationale for developing a programme of services by and for Indigenous men in a First Nations community
While mental well-being is recognized as a significant public health priority in numerous Indigenous communities, little work has focused on the mental health needs of Indigenous men. In this article, we describe results from the mixed-methods research used to inform the development of mental wellness programming for boys and men. Quantitative and qualitative data from two studies conducted in Kettle & Stony Point First Nation, an Indigenous comm…
Children’s experience of physical harms and exposure to family violence from others’ drinking in nine societies
One in 25 caregivers with children report physical or family violence harms to children because of others' drinking. The adjusted odds of harm are significantly greater (more than four-fold) in households with a heavy or harmful drinker, with men most likely to be defined as this drinker in the household
Risk-based licensing of alcohol venues and emergency department injury presentations in two Australian states
Finding Balance: An Evaluation Governance Model to Ease Tension between Independence and Inclusion
Practitioners and theorists have documented the benefits of user engagement and participation in evaluation and, at the same time, the value of neutral and impartial evaluative evidence. Yet producing both an independent and inclusive evaluation is a leading challenge in our field. In this practice note, we present one solution. We describe the design of an evaluation governance structure that was used to find balance between these two themes. We…
When Women Do Not Want It: Young Female Bargoers’ Experiences With and Responses to Sexual Harassment in Social Drinking Contexts
Women frequently experience unwanted sexual touching and persistent advances at bars and parties. This study explored women's responses to these unwanted experiences through online surveys completed by 153 female bargoers (aged 19-29) randomly recruited from a bar district. More than 75% had experienced sexual touching or persistence (46% both). Most women used multiple deterrent strategies, including evasion, facial expressions, direct refusals,…
Predictors of early versus late match relationship beginnings in Big Brothers Big Sisters community programs
When Women Do Not Want It: Young Female Bargoers’ Experiences With and Responses to Sexual Harassment in Social Drinking Contexts
Women frequently experience unwanted sexual touching and persistent advances at bars and parties. This study explored women's responses to these unwanted experiences through online surveys completed by 153 female bargoers (aged 19-29) randomly recruited from a bar district. More than 75% had experienced sexual touching or persistence (46% both). Most women used multiple deterrent strategies, including evasion, facial expressions, direct refusals,…
The Two Worlds of Aggression for Men and Women
Making gender along the way: Women, men and harm in Australian alcohol policy
Analysis of alcohol policy suggests women are marked out for special attention while men and masculinities are often ignored. In this paper, we employ Carol Bacchi’s work on ‘gendering practices’ and John Law’s concept of ‘collateral realities’ to examine how gender is constituted in Australian alcohol policy. For Bacchi, policies actively produce what it is possible for ‘men’ and ‘women’ to become. For Law, realities are constituted through meth…
Feasibility of a randomized controlled trial for evaluating the effectiveness of the Big Brothers Big Sisters community match program at the national level
Third Party Involvement in Barroom Conflicts
This study examines the effect of situational variables on whether third parties intervene in conflicts in barroom settings, and whether they are aggressive or not when they intervene. Based on research on bystander intervention in emergencies, we hypothesized that third parties would be most likely to become involved in incidents with features that convey greater danger of serious harm. The situational variables indicative of danger were severit…
The Frequency of Third-Party Involvement in Incidents of Barroom Aggression
This paper examines the frequency and nature of third-party involvement in aggressive incidents occurring in young people's bars and the effects of third parties on incident outcomes. Observational data were collected in 12 bars frequented by young people, and telephone interviews were conducted with 31 young people who responded to advertisements posted at the university campus. In total, 154 incidents of barroom aggression were analyzed. Overal…
A Typology of Toronto Nightclubs at the Turn of the Millennium
The international trend for large, corporately owned nightclubs that are similar around the globe is changing and homogenizing the public drinking cultures in many large cities. To better understand this phenomenon, we examined the different types of clubs in Toronto, Canada. The typology is drawn from qualitative and quantitative data compiled by trained observers who conducted 1,056 nights of unobtrusive observations in 75 high-capacity nightcl…
A framework for applying explanations of alcohol-related aggression to naturally occurring aggressive behavior
This paper provides a framework in which theories/explanations of alcohol-related aggression are identified and operationalized in such a way that they can be applied systematically to naturally occurring aggressive behavior associated with alcohol use. Summaries of explanations are provided along with a brief discussion of how these explanations might be assessed using real-world data. Explanations are grouped by whether they are based on: (a) t…
Yes, I Do but Not with You”: Qualitative Analyses of Sexual/romantic Overture-Related Aggression in Bars and Clubs
Assaultive and aggressive behaviors related to sexual overtures are common in commercial drinking establishments (bars, pubs, and clubs). In this article, we examined the thematic content of 251 incidents of verbal and physical aggression related to sexual/romantic overtures documented by researcher-observers in a study of Toronto bars and clubs. Aggression was examined as it emerged in the following stages of the social interaction process: (a) …
Circumstances when drinking leads to aggression: An overview of research findings
Studies of alcohol-related aggression have been framed both in the context of alcohol-related behavior and as a subtype of aggressive behavior. Theoretical discussions of alcoholrelated aggression tend to bridge these two very large conceptual frameworks, incorporating findings from a broad array of studies within each. The present paper, however, is concerned only with empirical studies that focus specifically on alcohol-related aggressive behav…
Relationship trajectories of women experiencing alcohol-related intimate partner violence: A grounded-theory analysis of women's voices
Predictors of early versus late match relationship beginnings in Big Brothers Big Sisters community programs
The Cross-Cultural Association Between Marital Status and Physical Aggression Between Intimate Partners
Preventive Interventions for On-Premise Drinking: A Promising but Underresearched Area of Prevention
Evidence is reviewed regarding the effectiveness of eight different approaches to the prevention of drinking driving, aggression, and other problems associated with drinking in licensed premises. Some evidence of positive effects was found for Responsible Beverage Service training (including mandatory training), laws holding servers liable for negative consequences due to intoxicated patrons, increased enforcement, ride services, and, to a lesser…
Analyses of use of tranquilizers and sleeping pills across five surveys of the same population (1985-1991): The relationship with gender, age and use of other substances
Role of motivation to respond to provocation, the social environment, and trait aggression in alcohol‐related aggression
Little attention has been paid to the motivation to respond to provocation and to the interaction between this motivation, alcohol, the drinking environment, and individual characteristics. Undergraduates at six Canadian universities ( N = 1,232) read three vignettes describing conflict situations with social environmental manipulations while imagining themselves as either sober or intoxicated. Self‐ratings assessed likelihood of assertive and ag…
Women Behaving Badly: Gender and Aggression in a Military Town, 1653?1781
I'm Okay. You're Drunk!” Self-Other Differences in the Perceived Effects of Alcohol in Real-Life Incidents of Aggression
A general-population telephone survey of 1,753 Ontario adults was used to identify self-other differences in the perceptions of alcohol use, intoxication, and contributing effects of alcohol in incidents of physical aggression among the 152 respondents who had experienced such an incident in the past year. Respondents reported that opponents were significantly more intoxicated and that alcohol was more likely to have contributed to the opponent's…
Part of Culture or Toxic Substance? Realities in Transition in Australian and Canadian Alcohol Policy Documents
This article analyzes alcohol policy documents through the framework of ontological politics developed by science and technology studies theorists John Law and Annemarie Mol. Specifically, it analyzes seven Australian and Canadian documents from 2006 to 2020, focusing on different enactments of alcohol as a harm-producing substance that requires regulation. The article identifies and discusses two co-existing realities of alcohol enacted in these…
Anishinabek sources of strength: Learning from First Nations people who have experienced mental health and substance use challenges
We report on the system of care and sources of strength and resilience for mental health among First Nations People experiencing the impacts of historical and contemporary colonization. Aamjiwnaang First Nation, a vibrant community of approximately 2400 members in southwestern Ontario, Canada, partnered in research to reveal sources of strength and resilience among community members with lived experiences (PWLE) with mental health and/or substanc…
Ontario treatment system research 1979-1993: What have we learned about assessment and referral services in terms of the original expectations
Alcoholics in Ontario: Where Do they Go for Help and What Happens when they Get there
This research examined services in Ontario for persons with alcohol-related problems. The sample included 152 alcohol-specific agencies and 670 general health, social and correctional resources. It was found that alcohol-related problems figure prominently in most community resources and incur large costs. However, many more people are identified than actually receive services for their drinking problem. Although some resources (notably those cla…
The Action Plan: Ontario's attempt to make systematic research-based change to the provincial treatment system
Ontario treatment system research 1979-1993: What have we learned about assessment and referral services in terms of the original expectations
Treatment entry and engagement: A study of the process at assessment/referral centers
Circumstances when drinking leads to aggression: An overview of research findings
Studies of alcohol-related aggression have been framed both in the context of alcohol-related behavior and as a subtype of aggressive behavior. Theoretical discussions of alcoholrelated aggression tend to bridge these two very large conceptual frameworks, incorporating findings from a broad array of studies within each. The present paper, however, is concerned only with empirical studies that focus specifically on alcohol-related aggressive behav…
A framework for applying explanations of alcohol-related aggression to naturally occurring aggressive behavior
This paper provides a framework in which theories/explanations of alcohol-related aggression are identified and operationalized in such a way that they can be applied systematically to naturally occurring aggressive behavior associated with alcohol use. Summaries of explanations are provided along with a brief discussion of how these explanations might be assessed using real-world data. Explanations are grouped by whether they are based on: (a) t…
Analyses of use of tranquilizers and sleeping pills across five surveys of the same population (1985-1991): The relationship with gender, age and use of other substances
Clients Speak: Participatory Evaluation of a Nonconfrontational Addictions Treatment Program for Older Adults
The benefits of client-centered addictions therapy warrant closer examination. Senior adults' motivation for behavior change may be highly sensitive to the relational aspects of the treatment approach
The Frequency of Third-Party Involvement in Incidents of Barroom Aggression
This paper examines the frequency and nature of third-party involvement in aggressive incidents occurring in young people's bars and the effects of third parties on incident outcomes. Observational data were collected in 12 bars frequented by young people, and telephone interviews were conducted with 31 young people who responded to advertisements posted at the university campus. In total, 154 incidents of barroom aggression were analyzed. Overal…
A Psychotherapist's Perspective on Victims of Religious Persecution: An Interview with Dr. Fern Waterman
As a medical consultant and psychotherapist, Dr. Fern Waterman specializes in massive psychic trauma work with Holocaust survivors and their families, torture victims, abuse, combat and incest survivors. An active member of the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture, Dr. Waterman does extensive research on victims of persecution (ethnic, racial, religious) and provides counselling to such individuals in her private practice. Hence, her medical an…
Preventive Interventions for On-Premise Drinking: A Promising but Underresearched Area of Prevention
Evidence is reviewed regarding the effectiveness of eight different approaches to the prevention of drinking driving, aggression, and other problems associated with drinking in licensed premises. Some evidence of positive effects was found for Responsible Beverage Service training (including mandatory training), laws holding servers liable for negative consequences due to intoxicated patrons, increased enforcement, ride services, and, to a lesser…
Aggression Among Young Adults in the Social Context of the Bar
The purpose of the study was to explore the use of naturalistic observation and interview data to increase understanding of aggression in the social drinking context of the bar. Fifty-two incidents of aggression in bars were documented through interviews with 34 respondents aged 19–25, and 117 incidents were documented by male-female pairs of researcher-observers over 93 nights of observation, usually conducted between midnight and 2:30 a.m. on w…
The Two Worlds of Aggression for Men and Women
Religious Freedom on the Run
cause of their religious beliefs and practices. "It is estimated that over Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Britain: U.K
I'm Okay. You're Drunk!” Self-Other Differences in the Perceived Effects of Alcohol in Real-Life Incidents of Aggression
A general-population telephone survey of 1,753 Ontario adults was used to identify self-other differences in the perceptions of alcohol use, intoxication, and contributing effects of alcohol in incidents of physical aggression among the 152 respondents who had experienced such an incident in the past year. Respondents reported that opponents were significantly more intoxicated and that alcohol was more likely to have contributed to the opponent's…
Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity: Research and public policy
From a public health perspective, alcohol is no ordinary consumer product. On a global level, it is a major contributor to disease, disability, and premature mortality. It also has an adverse impact on many aspects of social life. Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity – Research and Public Policy describes recent advances in alcohol research that have direct relevance for the development of effective alcohol policies at the local, national and internati…
The relationship of average volume of alcohol consumption and patterns of drinking to burden of disease: An overview
Aims As part of a larger study to estimate the global burden of disease attributable to alcohol: to quantify the relationships between average volume of alcohol consumption, patterns of drinking and disease and injury outcomes, and to combine exposure and risk estimates to determine regional and global alcohol‐attributable fractions (AAFs) for major disease and injury categories. Design, methods, setting Systematic literature reviews were used to…
'Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked in Tonight!' Aggression Among Young Males in Bars--A Question of Values
Qualitative methods were used to examine aggression among young males in bars in terms the role of alcohol, social context, cultural values, rewards and punishment, and motivations for aggression. Twenty-one incidents of barroom aggression described by men aged 20-24 in semi-structured interviews were reviewed for thematic content. According to participants, alcohol played a role by making participants less aware of risks, more willing to take ri…
'Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked in Tonight!' Aggression Among Young Males in Bars--A Question of Values
Journal Article 'Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked in Tonight!' Aggression Among Young Males in Bars—A Question of Values? Get access Kathryn Graham, Kathryn Graham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Samantha Wells Samantha Wells Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 43, Issue 3, 1 June 2003, Pages 546–566, https://doi.org/10.1…
Emotional Effect of Physical Aggression among Adults in the General Population in a Canadian Province
The emotional effect of personal involvement in physical aggression was examined in a random sample of 1,753 adults from Ontario, Canada, using Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (response rate of 67%). Respondents reported a range of emotional responses from feeling good or justified to feeling angry, upset, terrified, disgusted, hurt, and embarrassed. Open-ended responses regarding emotional response were rated by the authors for 149 inci…
Alcohol, gender and partner aggression: A general population study of British adults
This study explored gender differences in the extent that alcohol affects the perceived severity of partner aggression, and assessed the relationship between partner aggression and drinking pattern. Respondents were asked questions related to their own drinking pattern and the most severe incident of physical aggression experienced by and to a spouse/romantic partner during the previous two years as part of a general population survey of 2027 adu…
Women Behaving Badly: Gender and Aggression in a Military Town, 1653?1781
Public Drinking then and Now
In this commentary I identify and discuss aspects of public drinking that appear to be similar for current public drinking, early modern Germany (Kiimin) and 18th-century Paris (Brennan). Establishing common features of public drinking over time and place may help to provide better understanding of the relationship between public drinking and societal harms and benefits.The commerce of public drinkingAlthough much of the study of public drinking …
A Typology of Toronto Nightclubs at the Turn of the Millennium
The international trend for large, corporately owned nightclubs that are similar around the globe is changing and homogenizing the public drinking cultures in many large cities. To better understand this phenomenon, we examined the different types of clubs in Toronto, Canada. The typology is drawn from qualitative and quantitative data compiled by trained observers who conducted 1,056 nights of unobtrusive observations in 75 high-capacity nightcl…
Beliefs, attitudes, and male-to-male barroom aggression: Development of a theoretical predictive model
While evidence suggests that male-to-male barroom aggression is linked to attitudes and beliefs, there exists no theoretical model that delineates these relationships. We use theory on attitudes and behavior as well as sociocultural theories of alcohol and aggression to develop a model linking beliefs and attitudes to the likelihood of engaging in male-to-male barroom aggression. The model identifies five dimensions of attitudes and beliefs regar…
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