A5007110011- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Child Therapy and Development
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Deception detection and forensic psychology
- Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics
- Education Discipline and Inequality
- Educational and Psychological Assessments
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Forgiveness and Related Behaviors
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Ethics in medical practice
- Gun Ownership and Violence Research
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Memory Processes and Influences
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
2019-2023
City University of New York
2019-2023
The Graduate Center, CUNY
2020-2023
Drexel University
2015-2019
University of Virginia
2016
Hartford Hospital
2011-2013
Yale University
2012
Hartford Financial Services (United States)
2011
Previous studies of brain structure abnormalities in conduct disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity (ADHD) samples have been limited owing to cross-comorbidity, preventing clear understanding which structural might be specific or shared by each disorder. To our knowledge, this study was the first direct comparison grey white matter volumes diagnostically "pure" (i.e., no comorbidities) ADHD samples.Groups adolescents with noncormobid noncomorbid, combined-subtype were compared age-...
Application of the Risk-Needs-Responsivity (RNR) model in adult correctional research and practice is well developed, but remains underway juvenile justice system. The RNR may facilitate a shift from punitive practices system toward individualized assessment treatment youth fostering rehabilitation reintegration. This article reviews history settings, its theoretical application to system, available tools literature utilizing principles settings. Criticisms applying future directions are addressed.
Colorism is a social construct privileging lighter-skinned people of color with proximity to European features over their darker-skinned counterparts. Despite the significant role in lives Black women and girls, colorism an overlooked understudied phenomenon, particularly regarding how it shapes punishment criminalization schools. We conceptualize as determinant girls’ psychological well-being outcomes. Darker-skinned girls face disproportionately severe school discipline, negative...
This study examined the efficacy of Juvenile Justice Anger Management (JJAM) Treatment for Girls, an anger management and aggression reduction treatment designed to meet unique needs adolescent girls in residential juvenile justice facilities. randomized controlled trial JJAM compared changes levels among who participated with those as usual (TAU) at also investigated theoretical model underlying treatment, which proposed that reductions hostile attribution biases, development emotion...
False confessions represent a significant problem for the criminal and juvenile justice systems juveniles may be at particular risk falsely confessing. In part, this due to juveniles’ greater likelihood of waiving Miranda rights and, consequently, undergoing interrogation, as well their heightened suggestibility susceptibility compliance with authority figures compared adults. With data from 260 participants in correctional facilities, study ( n = 168) adults’ 92) self-reported false...
Child custody assessments are among the most complex kinds of psychological evaluations conducted for courts. There standards best practice associated with such evaluations, but relatively little has been written about how apply to involving lesbian and gay parents. This article describes current legal context surrounding determinations 1 or parent heterosexual parent, those in which a former same-sex couple sought determination children they have coparented. In addition reviewing relevant...
In this issue, Papalia, Spivak, Daffern, and Ogloff (2019) report on their meta‐analysis that examined whether psychological treatments with adult violent offenders in correctional forensic mental health settings are effective preventing community recidivism institutional misconduct. The was methodologically rigorous, involving 27 independent studies, over 7,000 offenders, adherence to the PRISMA guidelines. They found although treatment significantly reduced general/nonviolent recidivism,...
This study introduced a novel laboratory false confession paradigm to research on true and confession. Participants were 91 undergraduates who given the opportunity cheat task. All ultimately accused of cheating. Of participants innocent cheating, 17.9% confessed. Results suggest that current complements existing paradigms. In addition, this has useful strengths. With appropriate modifications, it can be used rates among youth allows for manipulation paradigm-specific factors so future which...
Although adolescents' understanding and appreciation of Miranda rights have been examined with community youth in the legal system, waiver capacities not compared between these populations, a comparison critical to elucidating relationships comprehension, age, IQ. This study comprehension 108 juveniles residential pre- post-adjudication facilities 43 students high-achieving private school. The juvenile justice sample had significantly lower attributable differences verbal relationship age IQ...