1. Valdez, A. (1993). Persistent Poverty, Crime, and Drugs: U.S.-Mexican Border Region. In J. Moore and R. Pinderhughes (Eds.), In the Barrios: Latinos and the Underclass Debate (pp. 173-94). New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation.

  2. Valdez, A., Kaplan, C.D., Curtis, R.L., Zenong, Y. (1995). Illegal Drug Use, Alcohol and Aggressive Crime among Mexican-American and White Male Arrestees in San Antonio. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 27(2), 135-143.

  3. Yin, Z., Valdez, A., Mata, A.G. and Kaplan, C.D. (1996). Developing a Field-Intensive Methodology for Generating a Randomized Sample for Gang Research. Free Inquiry-Special Issue: Gang, Drugs and Violence, 24(2), 195-204.

  4. Valdez, A. and Sifaneck, S. (1997). Drug Tourists and Drug Policy on the Us-Mexican Border: An Ethnographic Investigation of the Acquisition of Prescription Drugs. Journal of Drug Issues, 27(4), 879-897.

  5. Codina, G.E., Kaplan, C.D., Yin, Z., Mata, A. G. and Valdez, A. (1997). Readiness for Treatment: Predictors of Drug Abuse Help-Seeking in Mexican American, African American and White San Antonio Arrestees. Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology, 24(1), 17-24.

  6. Valdez, A., Yin, Z. and Kaplan, C.D. (1997). A Comparison of Alcohol, Drugs, and Aggressive Crime among Mexican-American, Black, and White Male Arrestees in Texas. American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 23(2), 249-265.

  7. Valdez, A., Cepeda, A., Kaplan, C.D. and Yin, Z. (1998). The Legal Importation of Prescription Drugs into the United States from Mexico: A Study of Customs Declaration Forms. Substance Use and Misuse, 33(12), 2485-97.

  8. Valdez, A. and Mata, A.G. (1999). Life Histories of Four Chicano Heroin Injecting Drug Users in Laredo. In M. O. Loustaunau and M. Sanchez-Bane (Eds.), Asi Es La Vida: Life, Death, and in-between on the Us-Mexico Border (pp. 1-32). Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey.

  9. Valdez, A. and Kaplan, C.D. (1999). Reducing Selection Bias in the Use of Focus Groups to Investigate Hidden Populations: The Case of Mexican American Gang Members from South Texas. Drugs and Society, 14(1/2), 209-24.

  10. Codina, E., Kaplan, C.D., Yin, Z., Valdez, A. and Mata, A.G. (1999). Estimating the Extent of Injecting Heroin Use in Laredo, Texas. Journal of Border Health, 4(1), 3-11.

  11. Rios, J.M. and Valdez, A. (2000). The Relationship between Infrastructure, Utilities and the Incidence of Illness in the Border Colonias. Journal of Border Health, 5(2), 31-41.

  12. Valdez, A., Kaplan, C.D. and Cepeda, A. (2000). The Process of Paradoxical Autonomy and Survival in the Heroin Careers of Mexican American Women. Contemporary Drug Problems, 27(Spring), 189-212.

  13. Valdez, A., Kaplan, C.D. and Codina, E. (2000). Psychopathy among Mexican American Gang Members: A Comparative Study. International Journal Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 44(1), 46-58.

  14. Mata, A., Valdez, A., Alvarado, J., Cepeda, A., Cervantes, R., & Kaplan, C.D. (2002). Drug Related Violence Among Mexican American Youth in Laredo, Texas: Preliminary Findings. Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology, 30(1), 25-38.

  15. Valdez, A. (2003). Toward a Typology of Contemporary Mexican American Youth Gangs. In L. Kontos, D. Brotherton and L. Barrios (Eds.), Gangs and Society: Alternative Perspectives (pp. 12-40). New York, NY: Columbia University Press.

  16. Cepeda, A. and Valdez, A. (2003). Risk Behaviors among Young Mexican American Gang-Associated Females. Journal of Adolescent Research, 18(1), 90-106.

  17. Cepeda, A. and Valdez, A. (2004). Sex Work, High Risk Sexual Behavior and Injecting Drug Use on the U.S.- Mexico Border: Nuevo Laredo. Journal of Border Health, 7(1), 84-94.

  18. Petersen, R. and Valdez, A. (2004). Intimate Partner Violence among Mexican American Adolescent Females. Journal of Ethnicity and Criminal Justice, 2(1/2), 67-89.

  19. Valdez, A. and Sifaneck, S.J. (2004). "Getting High and Getting by": Dimensions of Drug Selling Behaviors among American Mexican Gang Members in South Texas. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 41(1), 82-105.

  20. Valdez, A. and Flores, R. (2005). A Situational Analysis of Dating Violence Among Mexican American Females Associated with Street Gangs. Social Problems, 38(2), 95-114.

  21. Petersen, R. and Valdez, A. (2005). Based Methods in Hidden Populations to Generate a Randomized Community Sample of Gang Affiliated Adolescents. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, 3(2),151-167.

  22. Valdez, A. (2005). Mexican American Youth and Adult Prison Gangs in a Changing Heroin Market. Journal of Drug Issues, 35(4), 842-867.

  23. Valdez, A., Kaplan, C.D., Cepeda, A. and Mata, A.G. (2005). Precocious Transitions and Substance Use Patterns among Mexican American Gang Members: A Correlation Analysis. Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology, 33(1), 51-62.

  24. Valdez, A. (2005). Mexican American Youth and Adult Prison Gangs in a Changing Heroin Market. Journal of Drug Issues, 35(4), 842-867.

  25. Valdez, A., Mikow, J. and Cepeda, A. (2006). The Role of Stress, Family Coping, Ethnic Identity and Mother-Daughter Relationships on Substance Use among Gang Affiliated Hispanic Females. Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, 6 (4), 31-54.

  26. Cervantes, R., Duenas, N., Valdez, A. and Kaplan, C. (2006). Measuring Violence Risk and Outcomes among Mexican American Adolescent Females. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 21 (1), 24-41. PMID: 16399922.

  27. Valdez, A., Kaplan, C.D. and Cepeda, A. (2006). The Drugs-Violence Nexus Among Mexican-American Gang Members. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 38(2), 109-121. PMID: 16903450.

  28. Warner, L.A., Valdez, A., Vega, W.A., de la Rosa, M., Turner, R.J. and Canino, G. (2006). Hispanic drug abuse in an evolving cultural context: An agenda for research. Drug & Alcohol Dependence, Supplement, 84(s1), S8-S16. PMID: 16750335.

  29. Valdez, A, & Kaplan, C.D. (2007). Conditions That Increase Drug Market Involvement: The Invitational Edge and The Case Of Mexicans In South Texas. Journal of Drug Issues, 37(4), 893-917.

  30. Valdez, A., Kaplan, C.D. & Curtis, R.L. (2007). Aggressive Crime, Alcohol And Drug Use And Concentrated Poverty In 24 U.S. Urban Areas. American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Use, 33(4), 595-603. PMID: 17668345.

  31. Valdez, A., Neaigus, A., Cepeda, A. (2007). Potential Risk Factors for Transitioning to Injecting among Mexican American Non-Injecting Heroin Users. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 6(2), 49-73. PMID: 18192204.

  32. Valdez, A. (2007). "Machismo." Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, 2(G-R), 271-274.

  33. Valdez, A., Neaigus, A. & Kaplan, C.D. (2008). The Influence Of Family And Peer Risk Networks On Drug Use Practices And Other Risks Among Mexican American Non-Injecting Heroin Users. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 37(1), 79-107. PMID: 19337564.

  34. Valdez, A., Cepeda, A., Neaigus, A. & Russell, A. (2008). Heroin Transition Risk among Daily and Non-Daily Marijuana Users who are Non-Injectors of Heroin”. International Journal of Drug Policy, 19(1), 442-449. PMID: 19038723.

  35. Valdez, A., & Cepeda, A. (2008). The Relationship of Ecological Containment and Heroin Practices. In Y. Thomas, D. Richardson, & I. Cheung (Eds), Geography and Drug Addiction (159-173). Springer Press.

  36. Hazen, J. M., Kaplan, C.D., Valdez, A., Cepeda, A., Lund, S., & Millard, A. (2008). Risk and resilience: Understanding the potential for violence. In E.G. Berman, K. Krause, E. LeBrun & G. McDonald (Eds.), Small Arms Survey 2008: Risk and Resilience (pp. 244-273). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  37. Valdez, A., Cepeda, A., & Kaplan, C. (2009). Homicidal Events among Mexican American Street Gangs: A Situational Analysis. Homicide Studies 13(3), 288-306.

  38. Valdez, A., Cepeda, A., Negi, N., & Kaplan, C. (2009). Fumando La Piedra: Emerging Patterns of Crack Use among Latino Immigrant Day Laborers in New Orleans." Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. DOI: 10.1007/s10903-009-9300-5. PMID: 19924538.

  39. Cepeda, A., Valdez, A., Kaplan, C.D., & Hill, L. (2009). Patterns of substance use among Hurricane Katrina evacuees in Houston, Texas. Disasters: The Journal of Disaster Studies, Policy and Management. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7717.2009.01136.x. PMID: 19863564.

  40. Cepeda, A., St. Onge, J.M., Kaplan, C., & Valdez, A. (2010). The Association Between Disaster-Related Experiences and Mental Health Outcomes Among Drug Using African American Hurricane Katrina Evacuees. Community Mental Health Journal. DOI: 10.1007/s10597-009-9286-4. PMID: 20091228.

  41. Cepeda, A., & Valdez, A. (In Press). Ethnographic Strategies in the Tracking and Retention of Street Recruited Community-Based Samples of Substance Using Hidden Populations in Longitudinal Studies. Journal of Substance Use and Misuse.

  42. Valdez, A. and Sifaneck, S. (Eds.) (In Press). Special Issue: Qualitative Methodological Issues in Drug Research. Journal of Substance Use and Misuse.

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