P R Kavanaugh
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 22079 |
|---|---|
| NOME | P R Kavanaugh |
| PRENOMES | P R |
| SOBRENOME | Kavanaugh |
| ASSINATURA | KAVANAUGH P R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7098-3880 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 72 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Law enforcement capture of opioid settlement funding across Appalachia
A Qualitative Study of EMTs’ Perceptions of Opioid Overdose Reversals With Naloxone
In the United States, overdose fatalities involving opioids declined from 83,140 in 2023 to 54,743 in 2024—the largest single-year decline ever recorded and the fewest total drug deaths since 2019. The decline has been attributed in part to expanded access to harm reduction technologies to mitigate addiction and overdose, including expanded access to naloxone. We analyzed data on beliefs about opioid overdose reversals with naloxone among a subse…
Recreational Cannabis and Recriminalization in the 'Emerald Triangle
Cannabis had been illicitly cultivated for over half a century in the isolated tri-county region of far northern California known in drugs lore as the 'Emerald Triangle.' The regional industry gained legitimacy and experienced a significant boom in the 1990s when California legalized medical cannabis. In 2016, California legalized cannabis possession, use, and cultivation generally, and recreational sales for adults aged 21+ began in 2018. Drawin…
“I’m Not a Good Drug Dealer”
BACKGROUND: Against the backdrop of the U.S. opioid epidemic, there has been a concerted movement to improve access to buprenorphine maintenance therapy (BMT). In Pennsylvania, where overdose mortality increased 65% between 2015 and 2017, over $75 million has been appropriated toward BMT since 2016. Concurrently, efforts to increase BMT availability while lowering barriers to entry have given way to fears of increased diversion and illegitimate p…
The neoliberal governance of heroin and opioid users in Philadelphia city
Drawing on 147 news accounts and five policy documents on the heroin and opioid crisis in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania published between 2016 and 2018, our analysis highlights how media portrayals of opioid users as both tragic victims and public nuisance prompted a schizoid governmental response that draws on rhetorics of treatment and harm reduction to legitimate more punitive interventions. By describing how the state’s quasi-medical responsibil…
Narcan as biomedical panic
As the opioid overdose crisis in the US persists, governments have coordinated with drug companies to propagate the overdose reversal drug naloxone (Narcan) as a ‘kinder/gentler’ state response, deriving from a supposedly progressive harm reduction ethos. Drawing on Derrida’s deconstruction of pharmakon, I show how Narcan is rendered paradoxical and terminal, diverting attention from the structural antecedents of opioid addiction and resources fo…
Digital Ethnography in an Age of Information Warfare
In this article we engage the nature and role of the Internet in ethnographic research and reflect on how ethnographic methodologies may be adapted when researching digital forms of communication. We further consider how recent shifts in both the production and dissemination of textual discourse in networked media environments complicates conventional approaches to digital ethnography. Drawing on examples from our field research, our principal ob…
They're making it so hard for people to get help
The impact of race and extra-legal factors in charging defendants with serious sexual assault
Research on sexual assault case processing remains mixed regarding how extra-legal factors such as the racial-ethnic composition of the defendant-victim dyad may impact prosecutorial decision-making. We use data from 2006–2010 in a Pennsylvania county court jurisdiction to examine the victim- and defendant-related factors that influence charging decisions. We also explore how the demographic and offense characteristics influence decisions to pros…
Competing constructions of bath salts use and risk of harm in two mediated contexts
Drawing on depictions of bath salts use in two different mediated contexts (110 local news reports, 109 individual user reports), in this study we highlight the incongruence between accounts of use and harm in news media versus drug users’ own narratives. Findings reveal that depictions of bath salts use in local news stories drew on three overlapping frames of risk and harm: a medical/health frame, a typifying example/atrocity story frame, and a…
Women’s Evolving Roles in Drug Trafficking in the United States
Drugs and crime research and theory in the United States originated after President Nixon declared the first War on Drugs in 1971. This research agenda promised to reveal the scope, dynamics, and impact of the drugs–crime relationship, thus promising solutions for the country’s drug problems. The initial focus was on drug trade violence and, as a result, produced scholarship mostly on men’s involvement in drug distribution, purchasing, and relate…
Neoliberal Governance and the Homogenization of Substance Use and Risk in Night-Time Leisure Scenes
Trends in substance use and risks of harm are partially contingent on the twin regulatory apparatuses of government and economy. In this paper, we integrate prior research on the restructuring of the night-time cultural economy, the state’s War on Drugs and the macro-level production of risk using Philadelphia’s night-time leisure scene as a case example. In doing so, we consider how the reorganization of night-time leisure has affected substance…
Identity, Resistance and Moderation in an Online Community of Zoosexuals
Regulation plays a key role in the construction of sexuality. Given the extent to which new forms of communication technology have had a liberating effect on the production of new discourses emanating from historically marginalized sexual communities, this study examines how zoosexuals active in an online community work to construct, assert and manage their sex-based identities, situate their sexual practices, attempt to resolve ethical dilemmas,…
Discipline, Shaming and Antisocial Attitude in Philadelphia Middle Schools
The U.S. school system has changed fundamentally in its basic approach to social control in recent decades, with harsh approaches to student discipline having increased in popularity despite data showing pronounced and steady declines in incidents of both school violence and juvenile delinquency. This study revisits a sample of students in the Philadelphia School District to examine how perceptions of school rules and administration are associate…
Deviance and Risk on Holiday
Deviant Identity in Online Contexts
This article provides an overview of emerging research into the concept of deviant identity by highlighting major new directions in cyber‐deviance scholarship. We suggest that the examination of deviance in online settings offers unique new insights into the processes of identity construction and reinforcement, role play, and the social organization of deviant communities. We conclude by considering developments that may advance the literature on…
The Continuum of Sexual Violence
Despite the fact that a substantial amount of research has been conducted on sexual victimization among youth and young adults with active night lives, few of these studies have provided an analysis of the varied types of victimization that have occurred. I attempt to fill this gap with a qualitative analysis of women’s accounts of sexual victimization. Based on the substantive content of these women’s accounts, a three-part typology was generate…
Managing Physical and Sexual Assault Risk in Urban Nightlife
In this article we use interview and direct observation data to examine the experiences of young people in two Philadelphia nightlife scenes, and the ways in which they manage risk of physical and sexual assault. Our analysis reveals several environmental-level factors that shape risk exposure, as well as a number of individual-level tactics used to manage risk. Our observations are discussed in terms of their implications for developing a risk m…
Solidarity and Drug Use in The Electronic Dance Music Scene
Current research and theory on rave culture has articulated a link between solidarity and drug use, although the precise nature of this relationship remains unclear. Work conducted in the field of cultural studies contends that while rave participants engage in drug use, it is by no means the exclusive source of solidarity. However, work in the fields of public health and medical science portrays rave culture as a site of extensive drug consumpti…
A ‘Rave’ Review
Raves have historically referred to grassroots organized, antiestablishment and unlicensed all‐night dance parties, featuring electronically produced dance music, such as techno, house, trance and drum and bass. Since their late‐1980s origins in the UK, raves have gained widespread popularity and transformed dramatically. Consequently, their many cultural traits and behaviors have garnered much sociological interest, which mostly falls into two c…
Social Support and Demographic Correlates of Acculturative Stress in International Students
A sample of 141 international students from different U.S. colleges completed surveys related to social support, demographic variables, and acculturative stress. Findings indicated that social support and English proficiency uniquely contribute to the variance in students' acculturative stress. Results also indicated that students who primarily socialized with non‐Americans and that students from Asian countries experienced more acculturative str…
The Continuum of Sexual Violence
Despite the fact that a substantial amount of research has been conducted on sexual victimization among youth and young adults with active night lives, few of these studies have provided an analysis of the varied types of victimization that have occurred. I attempt to fill this gap with a qualitative analysis of women’s accounts of sexual victimization. Based on the substantive content of these women’s accounts, a three-part typology was generate…
Digital Ethnography in an Age of Information Warfare
In this article we engage the nature and role of the Internet in ethnographic research and reflect on how ethnographic methodologies may be adapted when researching digital forms of communication. We further consider how recent shifts in both the production and dissemination of textual discourse in networked media environments complicates conventional approaches to digital ethnography. Drawing on examples from our field research, our principal ob…
Solidarity and Drug Use in The Electronic Dance Music Scene
Current research and theory on rave culture has articulated a link between solidarity and drug use, although the precise nature of this relationship remains unclear. Work conducted in the field of cultural studies contends that while rave participants engage in drug use, it is by no means the exclusive source of solidarity. However, work in the fields of public health and medical science portrays rave culture as a site of extensive drug consumpti…
Deviant Identity in Online Contexts
This article provides an overview of emerging research into the concept of deviant identity by highlighting major new directions in cyber‐deviance scholarship. We suggest that the examination of deviance in online settings offers unique new insights into the processes of identity construction and reinforcement, role play, and the social organization of deviant communities. We conclude by considering developments that may advance the literature on…
Managing Physical and Sexual Assault Risk in Urban Nightlife
In this article we use interview and direct observation data to examine the experiences of young people in two Philadelphia nightlife scenes, and the ways in which they manage risk of physical and sexual assault. Our analysis reveals several environmental-level factors that shape risk exposure, as well as a number of individual-level tactics used to manage risk. Our observations are discussed in terms of their implications for developing a risk m…
A ‘Rave’ Review
Raves have historically referred to grassroots organized, antiestablishment and unlicensed all‐night dance parties, featuring electronically produced dance music, such as techno, house, trance and drum and bass. Since their late‐1980s origins in the UK, raves have gained widespread popularity and transformed dramatically. Consequently, their many cultural traits and behaviors have garnered much sociological interest, which mostly falls into two c…
Narcan as biomedical panic
As the opioid overdose crisis in the US persists, governments have coordinated with drug companies to propagate the overdose reversal drug naloxone (Narcan) as a ‘kinder/gentler’ state response, deriving from a supposedly progressive harm reduction ethos. Drawing on Derrida’s deconstruction of pharmakon, I show how Narcan is rendered paradoxical and terminal, diverting attention from the structural antecedents of opioid addiction and resources fo…
Women’s Evolving Roles in Drug Trafficking in the United States
Drugs and crime research and theory in the United States originated after President Nixon declared the first War on Drugs in 1971. This research agenda promised to reveal the scope, dynamics, and impact of the drugs–crime relationship, thus promising solutions for the country’s drug problems. The initial focus was on drug trade violence and, as a result, produced scholarship mostly on men’s involvement in drug distribution, purchasing, and relate…
Competing constructions of bath salts use and risk of harm in two mediated contexts
Drawing on depictions of bath salts use in two different mediated contexts (110 local news reports, 109 individual user reports), in this study we highlight the incongruence between accounts of use and harm in news media versus drug users’ own narratives. Findings reveal that depictions of bath salts use in local news stories drew on three overlapping frames of risk and harm: a medical/health frame, a typifying example/atrocity story frame, and a…
The neoliberal governance of heroin and opioid users in Philadelphia city
Drawing on 147 news accounts and five policy documents on the heroin and opioid crisis in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania published between 2016 and 2018, our analysis highlights how media portrayals of opioid users as both tragic victims and public nuisance prompted a schizoid governmental response that draws on rhetorics of treatment and harm reduction to legitimate more punitive interventions. By describing how the state’s quasi-medical responsibil…
Deviance and Risk on Holiday
Social Support and Demographic Correlates of Acculturative Stress in International Students
A sample of 141 international students from different U.S. colleges completed surveys related to social support, demographic variables, and acculturative stress. Findings indicated that social support and English proficiency uniquely contribute to the variance in students' acculturative stress. Results also indicated that students who primarily socialized with non‐Americans and that students from Asian countries experienced more acculturative str…
A ‘Rave’ Review
Raves have historically referred to grassroots organized, antiestablishment and unlicensed all‐night dance parties, featuring electronically produced dance music, such as techno, house, trance and drum and bass. Since their late‐1980s origins in the UK, raves have gained widespread popularity and transformed dramatically. Consequently, their many cultural traits and behaviors have garnered much sociological interest, which mostly falls into two c…
Solidarity and Drug Use in The Electronic Dance Music Scene
Current research and theory on rave culture has articulated a link between solidarity and drug use, although the precise nature of this relationship remains unclear. Work conducted in the field of cultural studies contends that while rave participants engage in drug use, it is by no means the exclusive source of solidarity. However, work in the fields of public health and medical science portrays rave culture as a site of extensive drug consumpti…
Managing Physical and Sexual Assault Risk in Urban Nightlife
In this article we use interview and direct observation data to examine the experiences of young people in two Philadelphia nightlife scenes, and the ways in which they manage risk of physical and sexual assault. Our analysis reveals several environmental-level factors that shape risk exposure, as well as a number of individual-level tactics used to manage risk. Our observations are discussed in terms of their implications for developing a risk m…
Deviant Identity in Online Contexts
This article provides an overview of emerging research into the concept of deviant identity by highlighting major new directions in cyber‐deviance scholarship. We suggest that the examination of deviance in online settings offers unique new insights into the processes of identity construction and reinforcement, role play, and the social organization of deviant communities. We conclude by considering developments that may advance the literature on…
The Continuum of Sexual Violence
Despite the fact that a substantial amount of research has been conducted on sexual victimization among youth and young adults with active night lives, few of these studies have provided an analysis of the varied types of victimization that have occurred. I attempt to fill this gap with a qualitative analysis of women’s accounts of sexual victimization. Based on the substantive content of these women’s accounts, a three-part typology was generate…
Discipline, Shaming and Antisocial Attitude in Philadelphia Middle Schools
The U.S. school system has changed fundamentally in its basic approach to social control in recent decades, with harsh approaches to student discipline having increased in popularity despite data showing pronounced and steady declines in incidents of both school violence and juvenile delinquency. This study revisits a sample of students in the Philadelphia School District to examine how perceptions of school rules and administration are associate…
Deviance and Risk on Holiday
Identity, Resistance and Moderation in an Online Community of Zoosexuals
Regulation plays a key role in the construction of sexuality. Given the extent to which new forms of communication technology have had a liberating effect on the production of new discourses emanating from historically marginalized sexual communities, this study examines how zoosexuals active in an online community work to construct, assert and manage their sex-based identities, situate their sexual practices, attempt to resolve ethical dilemmas,…
Women’s Evolving Roles in Drug Trafficking in the United States
Drugs and crime research and theory in the United States originated after President Nixon declared the first War on Drugs in 1971. This research agenda promised to reveal the scope, dynamics, and impact of the drugs–crime relationship, thus promising solutions for the country’s drug problems. The initial focus was on drug trade violence and, as a result, produced scholarship mostly on men’s involvement in drug distribution, purchasing, and relate…
Neoliberal Governance and the Homogenization of Substance Use and Risk in Night-Time Leisure Scenes
Trends in substance use and risks of harm are partially contingent on the twin regulatory apparatuses of government and economy. In this paper, we integrate prior research on the restructuring of the night-time cultural economy, the state’s War on Drugs and the macro-level production of risk using Philadelphia’s night-time leisure scene as a case example. In doing so, we consider how the reorganization of night-time leisure has affected substance…
The impact of race and extra-legal factors in charging defendants with serious sexual assault
Research on sexual assault case processing remains mixed regarding how extra-legal factors such as the racial-ethnic composition of the defendant-victim dyad may impact prosecutorial decision-making. We use data from 2006–2010 in a Pennsylvania county court jurisdiction to examine the victim- and defendant-related factors that influence charging decisions. We also explore how the demographic and offense characteristics influence decisions to pros…
Competing constructions of bath salts use and risk of harm in two mediated contexts
Drawing on depictions of bath salts use in two different mediated contexts (110 local news reports, 109 individual user reports), in this study we highlight the incongruence between accounts of use and harm in news media versus drug users’ own narratives. Findings reveal that depictions of bath salts use in local news stories drew on three overlapping frames of risk and harm: a medical/health frame, a typifying example/atrocity story frame, and a…
They're making it so hard for people to get help
Narcan as biomedical panic
As the opioid overdose crisis in the US persists, governments have coordinated with drug companies to propagate the overdose reversal drug naloxone (Narcan) as a ‘kinder/gentler’ state response, deriving from a supposedly progressive harm reduction ethos. Drawing on Derrida’s deconstruction of pharmakon, I show how Narcan is rendered paradoxical and terminal, diverting attention from the structural antecedents of opioid addiction and resources fo…
Digital Ethnography in an Age of Information Warfare
In this article we engage the nature and role of the Internet in ethnographic research and reflect on how ethnographic methodologies may be adapted when researching digital forms of communication. We further consider how recent shifts in both the production and dissemination of textual discourse in networked media environments complicates conventional approaches to digital ethnography. Drawing on examples from our field research, our principal ob…
The neoliberal governance of heroin and opioid users in Philadelphia city
Drawing on 147 news accounts and five policy documents on the heroin and opioid crisis in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania published between 2016 and 2018, our analysis highlights how media portrayals of opioid users as both tragic victims and public nuisance prompted a schizoid governmental response that draws on rhetorics of treatment and harm reduction to legitimate more punitive interventions. By describing how the state’s quasi-medical responsibil…
“I’m Not a Good Drug Dealer”
BACKGROUND: Against the backdrop of the U.S. opioid epidemic, there has been a concerted movement to improve access to buprenorphine maintenance therapy (BMT). In Pennsylvania, where overdose mortality increased 65% between 2015 and 2017, over $75 million has been appropriated toward BMT since 2016. Concurrently, efforts to increase BMT availability while lowering barriers to entry have given way to fears of increased diversion and illegitimate p…
Recreational Cannabis and Recriminalization in the 'Emerald Triangle
Cannabis had been illicitly cultivated for over half a century in the isolated tri-county region of far northern California known in drugs lore as the 'Emerald Triangle.' The regional industry gained legitimacy and experienced a significant boom in the 1990s when California legalized medical cannabis. In 2016, California legalized cannabis possession, use, and cultivation generally, and recreational sales for adults aged 21+ began in 2018. Drawin…
Law enforcement capture of opioid settlement funding across Appalachia
A Qualitative Study of EMTs’ Perceptions of Opioid Overdose Reversals With Naloxone
In the United States, overdose fatalities involving opioids declined from 83,140 in 2023 to 54,743 in 2024—the largest single-year decline ever recorded and the fewest total drug deaths since 2019. The decline has been attributed in part to expanded access to harm reduction technologies to mitigate addiction and overdose, including expanded access to naloxone. We analyzed data on beliefs about opioid overdose reversals with naloxone among a subse…
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