Crime and Deviance: Adolescent Substance Use, Sexual Violence

Comparative Criminology: Criminal Justice Systems, Juvenile Justice

• Link, Tanja C. 2008. "Youthful intoxication: a cross-cultural study of drinking among German and American adolescents." Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs 69: 362-371.
• Link, Tanja C. 2008. "Adolescent substance use in Germany and the United States: A cross-cultural test of the applicability and generalizability of theoretical indicators." European Journal of Criminology 6(1):1-10.
• Link, Tanja C. 2008. "The Monitoring The Future Study." In: Encyclopedia of Substance Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery. Sage Publications.
• Knudsen, Hannah K., Lori J. Ducharme, Paul M. Roman, and Tanja C. Link. 2005. “Buprenorphine diffusion: the attitudes of substance abuse treatment counselors.” Forthcoming in the Journal of Substance Use Treatment.
• Link, Tanja C. 2005. “Intoxication without borders: comparing adolescent substance use cross-culturally.” Poster presented at the American Society of Criminology, Toronto, Canada.
• Yacoubian, George S. Jr., Ronald J. Peters, Wilson P. Palacios, and Tanja C. Link. 2004. “Identifying the Perceived and Diagnosed Prevalence of Ecstasy Dependence among Club Rave Attendees.” Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse 3(4): 33-45.
• Yacoubian, George S. Jr., Sarah Miller, Selwyn Pianism, Michael Kunz, Erin A., Orrick, Tanja C. Link, Wilson P. Palacios, and Ronald J. Peters. 2004. “Toward an Ecstasy and Other Club Drug (EOCD) Prevention and Intervention for Rave Attendees.” Journal of Drug Education 34(1): 41-59.

Current Projects

• I am currently working on a research project in collaboration with the UK VIP Center looking at sexual violence among college students. The main objectives for this study are to 1) assess dominant cultural attitudes toward women and sexual violence in this population; 2) identify, recruit, and train individuals to disseminate information about sexual violence in an effort to reach a critical mass in the population and increase the active involvement of bystanders to prevent sexually violent behavior or intervene in situations leading up to sexual violence; 3) monitor and evaluate changes in attitudes and behavior among college students at different times after the initiation of the dissemination process. 
• The other area of research I continue to focus on deals with issues of adolescent substance use and juvenile justice in Germany. Using data from the Hamburg SCHULBUS study, Theo Baumgaertner and I presently analyze the relationship between cognitive associations and adolescent substance use. More specifically, we are interested in how these images change over time, and whether they can predict future substance use or abstention.