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A prospective investigation of whether parent psychopathology explains the relationship between parent maltreatment and offspring mental health

Journal

Journal of Developmental Psychology

Date Published

January 2026

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Expanding the framework of childhood adversity: Structural violence and aggression in childhood

Journal

Child Protection and Practice

Date Published

April 2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Disaggregating the heterogeneity of DSM-5 posttraumatic stress symptoms and disorder among justice-involved adolescents

Journal

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

Date Published

2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Social-cognitive mediators of the link between social-environmental risk factors and aggression in adolescence

Date Published

2004

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Thesis/Dissertation

Childhood Maltreatment, Blood Lead Levels, and Crime and Violence: A Prospective Examination

Journal

Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science

Date Published

July 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Family Violence Exposure and Physical Adolescent Dating Violence Perpetration: A Longitudinal Study

Journal

Springer Nature Link

Date Published

March 2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Witnessing community violence and its consequences: Changes across middle school

Journal

Journal of Research on Adolescence

Date Published

June 2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Callous-Unemotionality in a Sample of Justice-Involved Adolescents: Distinct Associations With Attachment Avoidance and Attachment Anxiety

Journal

Child Psychiatry and Human Development

Date Published

November 2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Safe Transitions for Teens

15PNIJ-24-AG-00117-REVA

Open

Funding First Awarded

2024

$842,337

Intergenerational Transmission of Violence: The Mediating role of Adolescent Psychopathology Symptoms

Journal

Development and Psychopathology

Date Published

2019

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

The Relationship Between Parents Intimate Partner Victimization and Youths Adolescent Relationship Abuse

Journal

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Date Published

2018

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Program/Project Description

IPV and the Intergenerational Transmission of Violence

Journal

Domestic Violence Report

Date Published

May 2018

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Vocally-Encoded Emotional Arousal as a Marker of Callous-Unemotional Traits in a Sample of Justice-Involved Adolescents

Journal

Child Psychiatry and Human Development

Date Published

2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Memory Accuracy After 20 Years for Interviews About Child Maltreatment

Journal

Child Maltreatment

Date Published

2023

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Mother-Child Language Style Predicts Internalizing Behaviors in Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence

Journal

Journal of Developmental Psychology

Date Published

2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Beliefs as Mediators of Relations Between Exposure to Violence and Physical Aggression During Early Adolescence

Journal

Journal of Early Adolescence

Date Published

2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Youth and the Juvenile Justice System: 2022 National Report

Date Published

December 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored, OJJDP-Sponsored

A meta-analysis of longitudinal partial correlations between school violence and mental health, school performance, and criminal or delinquent acts

Journal

Psychological Bulletin

Date Published

2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Literature Review

Characteristics and Trends of Youth Victims of Suicide and Homicide, 2020

Date Published

April 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored, OJJDP-Sponsored

Publication Type

Data Snapshot, Statistics

Family Instability and Exposure to Violence in the Early Life Course

Journal

Journal of Research on Adolescence

Date Published

2018

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Effects of Physical and Emotional Child Abuse and Its Chronicity on Crime Into Adulthood

Journal

Violence and Victims

Date Published

December 2015

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Preparing Mediators to Mediate Cases Reporting High IPV in a Randomized Controlled Trial: The Importance of a Mediation Manual, Training, and Consultation

Journal

Family Court Review

Date Published

2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Minority and Immigrant Youth Exposure to Community Violence: The Differential Effects of Family Management and Peers

Journal

Journal of Interpersonal Violence

Date Published

2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Health-Related Quality of Life among Adolescents as a Function of Victimization, other Adversities, and Strengths

Journal

Journal of Pediatric Nursing-Nursing Care of Children and Families

Date Published

2020

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Child Trauma Response Team (CTRT): Pilot Program

Date Published

2018

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Program/Project Evaluation