This report calls on the nation—its leaders, its mental health research and service provision
agencies, its schools, its primary care medical systems, its community-based organizations …

Vulnerable periods during the development of the nervous system are sensitive to
environmental insults because they are dependent on the temporal and regional emergence …

The authors bring the" person" back into criminology by focusing on understanding
individual differences in criminal conduct and recognizing the importance of personal …

This study explores the impact of environmental regulations in China on infant mortality. In
1998, the Chinese government imposed stringent air pollution regulations, in one of the first …

After decades of rigorous study in the United States and across the Western world, a great
deal is known about the early risk factors for offending. High impulsiveness, low attainment …

Research on child and adolescent mental health problems has burgeoned since the
inaugural issue of Development and Psychopathology was published in 1989. In the quarter …

Objectives. Physical aggression in children is a major public health problem. Not only is
childhood physical aggression a precursor of the physical and mental health problems that …

TOPIC. Childhood externalizing behavior PURPOSE. To analyze the construct of
externalizing behavior (aggression, delinquency, and hyperactivity), illustrate the biosocial …

Despite increasing knowledge of social and biological risk factors for antisocial and violent
behavior, we know surprisingly little about how these two sets of risk factors interact. This …

We offer evidence that legalized abortion has contributed significantly to recent crime
reductions. Crime began to fall roughly eighteen years after abortion legalization. The five …