This research will increase scientific understanding of the social processes, conduct norms and behavioral patterns associated with aggression and violence, and risk behaviors for HIV to co-occur. Key findings from years 1-2 document the many """"""""informal rules"""""""" (conduct norms) governing drug abuse and sales, aggression and violence, and HIV risk behaviors within African-American """"""""severely distressed households."""""""" The proposed study will provide more accurate conceptual and empirical understandings of the conduct norms and severity of aggression and violence within inner-city African-American families when one or more members participate in crack and other drug consumption and sales.
The specific aims are to: 1. delineate the importance of aggressive languaging as a form of near violence and document how and under what circumstances such languaging is sometimes transformed into physical violence; 2. identify and document commonplace varieties of aggression and violence and specific episodes that co-occur with drug use/abuse/sale and risk for HIV/AIDS in specific kinds of households; 3. document the intergenerational processes by which co-occurring violence, drug abuse, and HIV risk behavior is learned, modeled, and practiced by one generation against other generations. The omnibus longitudinal ethnographic methodology will systematically document the complex realities of these households. A total of 30 households (15 from Years 1-2 and 15 new comparison households) and all household members (adults, children, relatives, sexual partners, and transients) (about 200 subjects) will be recruited and repeatedly studied. Each subject will complete a quarterly in-depth interview and be directly observed by the ethnographer on a monthly or more regular basis during the five year period. Planned analyses will document specific conduct norms and social processes by which drugs, violence, and HIV risk behaviors co-occur and are transmitted over generations.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
5R01DA009056-08
Application #
6378584
Study Section
Human Development Research Subcommittee (NIDA)
Program Officer
Mills, Arnold
Project Start
1994-09-30
Project End
2003-06-30
Budget Start
2001-07-01
Budget End
2003-06-30
Support Year
8
Fiscal Year
2001
Total Cost
$798,315
Indirect Cost
Name
National Development & Research Institutes
Department
Type
DUNS #
City
New York
State
NY
Country
United States
Zip Code
10010
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Windsor, Liliane Cambraia; Dunlap, Eloise; Armour, Marilyn (2012) Surviving oppression under the rock: the intersection of New York's drug, welfare, and educational polices in the lived experiences of low-income African Americans. J Ethn Subst Abuse 11:339-61
Windsor, Liliane Cambraia; Dunlap, Eloise; Golub, Andrew (2011) Challenging controlling images, oppression, poverty and other structural constraints: Survival strategies among African American women in distressed households. J Afr Am Stud (New Brunsw) 15:290-306
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Golub, Andrew; Dunlap, Eloise; Benoit, Ellen (2010) Drug use and conflict in inner-city African-American relationships in the 2000s. J Psychoactive Drugs 42:327-37
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