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  • Thinking about Individual Actor-level perspectives in sociotechnical transitions: A comment on the transitions research agenda
    Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 2020
    Co-Authors: Paul Upham, Paula Maria Bögel, Elisabeth Dütschke
    Abstract:

    Abstract The 2019 STRN research agenda identifies connecting the different 'levels' of transitions processes as a worthwhile line of work. Individual Actor-level processes are an example of those at the 'micro' level that are lost through the aggregation involved in high level sociotechnical transitions concepts. This short commentary discusses ways of connecting Individual Actor level processes to transitions concepts, where 'Individual' refers to Individual human Actors. For this purpose, the commentary draws on social psychology and shows how this particular discipline is relevant to more than simply consumption and technology acceptance. The commentary also identifies more general strategies relevant to the bridging of levels, beyond psychology, namely: (i) the use of concepts that inherently bridge the Individual and the social; and (ii) the use of multi-stage, sequenced studies that track the influence of different types of processes through particular sociotechnical systems.

Nabila El-bassel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • A Dyadic Analysis of Criminal Justice Involvement and Sexual HIV Risk Behaviors Among Drug-Involved Men in Community Corrections and Their Intimate Partners in New York City: Implications for Prevention, Treatment and Policies
    AIDS and Behavior, 2020
    Co-Authors: Phillip L. Marotta, Louisa Gilbert, Dawn Goddard-eckrich, Tim Hunt, Lisa Metsch, Alissa Davis, Daniel Feaster, Nabila El-bassel
    Abstract:

    People in community corrections have rates of HIV and sexual risk behaviors that are much higher than the general population. Prior literature suggests that criminal justice involvement is associated with increased sexual risk behaviors, yet these studies focus on incarceration and use one-sided study designs that only collect data from one partner. To address gaps in the literature, this study used the Actor Partner-Interdependence Model with Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), to perform a dyadic analysis estimating Individual (Actor-only) partner-only, and dyadic patterns (Actor-partner) of criminal justice involvement and greater sexual risks in a sample of 227 men on probation and their intimate partners in New York City, United States. Standard errors were bootstrapped with 10,000 replications to reduce bias in the significance tests. Goodness of fit indices suggested adequate or better model fit for all the models. Significant Actor-only relationships included associations between exposures to arrest, misdemeanor convictions, time spent in jail or prison, felony convictions, lifetime number of incarceration events, prior conviction for disorderly conduct and increased sexual risk behaviors. Partner only effects included significant associations between male partners conviction for a violent crime and their female partners’ sexual risk behaviors. Men’s encounters with police and number of prior misdemeanors were associated with their own and intimate partners’ sexual risk behaviors. Women’s prior arrest was associated with their own and intimate partners’ sexual risk behaviors. The results from the present study suggest that men on probation and their intimate partners’ criminal justice involvement are associated with increased engagement in sexual risk behaviors. It is necessary to conduct greater research into developing dyadic sexual risk reduction and HIV/STI prevention interventions for people who are involved in the criminal justice system.