This article provides a comprehensive review of the research on the use of callous and
unemotional (CU) traits for designating an important subgroup of children and adolescents …

Few criminologists have drawn attention to the fact that widespread and significant forms of
harm such as green or environmental crimes are neglected by criminology. Others have …

Criminology: Explaining Crime and Its Context, Ninth Edition, is a highly acclaimed textbook
offering a broad perspective on criminological theory. It provides students of criminology and …

Importance Millions of adults now entering middle age were exposed to high levels of lead,
a developmental neurotoxin, as children. Although childhood lead exposure has been …

Understanding Psychopathy is an essential, accessible new guide on psychopathy and its
development. Through the lens of the biopsychosocial model, Thomson explores a wide …

Why do individuals exposed to the same environment turn out so differently, with some
engaging in crime and others abiding by societal rules and norms? Why are males involved …

Purpose Major advances in the fields of biology, genetics, neuroscience, and psychiatry
have shown that many human behaviors are impacted by factors other than social …

This meta-analysis examined the association between conduct problems and lead
exposure. Nineteen studies on 8,561 children and adolescents were included. The average …

Criminology has historically maligned biological perspectives despite the scientific rigor of
the biological sciences. In recent years, however, a growing number of criminologists are …

Several prospective cohort studies have demonstrated that childhood lead levels show
small but statistically significant adjusted associations with subsequent development in later …