Journal Articles

By Year

2024

  • LaBerge, A., Cavanagh, C., & Cauffman, E. (2024). Juvenile justice- and dual system-involved youth: The role of primary caregiver monitoring habits on juvenile recidivism. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 61(2), 303-332. 
  • Cavanagh, C., Kitzmiller, M. K., Henke, M., & Cauffman, E. (2024). Examining the experience of women in justice-involved families during the COVID-19 pandemic: The impact of familial incarceration. Journal of Family Issues, 45(1), 55-73.

2023

  • LaBerge, A., Osuna, A. I., Cavanagh, C., & Cauffman, E. (2023). Mothers with justice-involved sons: Socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 by neighborhood disorder in the United States. The Journal of Social Issues, 79, 747-772. 
  • Lavoie, J., Fine, A. D., Thomas, A. G., Frick, P. J., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2023). How important is developmental maturity in assessing whether adolescents will share true or false accounts of a first offense in legal interactions?  Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, 9, 648-669.
  • Kan, E., Riano, N. S., Beardslee, J., Frick, P. J., Steinberg L., Cauffman E. (2023). Race differences in the association between binge drinking and treatment among first-time justice-system-impacted youth. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 58(1), 23-30.
  • Rowan, Z., Fine, A., Steinberg, L., & Frick, P. J., & Cauffman, E. (2023). Labeling effects of initial juvenile justice system processing on youth interpersonal ties. Criminology, 61, 731-757.
  • Baker, A. E., Padgaonkar, N. T., Galvan, A., Frick, P. J., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2023).  Characterizing trajectories of anxiety, depression, and criminal offending in male adolescents over the 5 years following their first arrest. Development and Psychopathology, 35, 570-586.
  • Brown, C., Beardslee, J., Frick, P. J., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2023). Perceived sleep quality predicts aggressive offending in adolescence and young adulthood. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 64, 320-328.
  • Cavanagh, C.,Osuna, A., Liggett-O’Malley, R., Henke, M., & Cauffman, E. (2023). Concerns about COVID-19 among undocumented women in justice-involved families. International Journal of Migration, Health, and Social Care, 19(1), 42-57.
  • Kemp, E. C., Frick, P. J., Matlasz, T. M., Clark, J. E., Robertson, E. L., Ray, J. V., Thornton, L. C., Wall Myers, T. D., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2023). Developing cut-off scores for the Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits (ICU) in justice-involved and community samples. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 52, 519-532.
  • Robertson, E. L., Ray, J. V., Frick. P. J., Vaughan, E. P., Thornton, L. C., Wall Myers, T. D., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2023). The bidirectional effects of antisocial behavior, anxiety, and trauma exposure: Implications for our understanding of the development of callous-unemotional traits. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, 132(4), 445-460.
  • Traver, J. M., Dallaire, D. H. Frick, P. J., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2023). The reciprocal relations between well-being and maternal and peer warmth in adolescents involved in the juvenile justice system. Journal of Adolescence, 95(3), 401-412.
  • Vaughan, E. P., Frick, P. J., Robertson, E. L., Ray, J. V., Thornton, L. C., Wall Myers, T. D., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2023). Interpersonal relationships and callous-unemotional traits during adolescence and young adulthood: An investigation of bidirectional effects in parent, peer, and romantic relationships. Clinical Psychological Science, 11(3), 391-408.

2022

  • Cavanagh, C., Dalzell, E., LaBerge, A., & Cauffman, E. (2022). Do parental monitoring habits change in response to juvenile recidivism? In S. Royo Maxwell & S. Lee Blair (Eds.), The Justice System and the Family: Police, Courts, and Incarceration (Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research, Vol. 20, pp. 19-38). Emerald Publishing.
  • Drozdova, A. D., Thomas, A. G., Volpert-Esmond. H. I., Steinberg, L., Frick, P. J., & Cauffman, E. (2022). Drug use homophily in adolescent offenders’ close friendship groups. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 51(10), 2046-2059.
  • Vaughan, E. P., Speck, J. S., Frick, P. J., Robertson, E. L., Ray, J. V., Thornton, L. C., Wall Myers, T. D., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2022). Longitudinal associations of parental monitoring and delinquent peer affiliation: The potential influence of parental solicitation and monitoring rules. Journal of Adolescence, 94(4), 656-666.
  • Fine, A. D., Beardslee, J., Mays, R., Frick, P. J., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2022). Measuring youths’ perceptions of police: Evidence from the Crossroads study. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 28(1), 92-107.
  • Kan, E., Beardslee, J., Frick, P. J., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2022). Impact of recreational cannabis legalization on cannabis use, other substance use, and drug-related offending among justice-involved youth. Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 40(2), 292-309.
  • Knowles, A., Rowan, Z., Frick, P.J., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2022). Examining the relation between estimated life expectancy and delinquency across development: An examination of adolescent males following their first arrest. Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, 8(1), 1-24.
  • Rowan, Z., Kan, E., Frick, P. J., & Cauffman, E. (2022). Not (entirely) guilty: The role of co-offenders in diffusing responsibility for crime. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 59(4), 415-448.

2021

  • Fine, A. D., Amemiya, J., Frick, P. J., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2021). Perceptions of police legitimacy and bias from ages 13 to 22 among Black, Latino, and White justice-involved males. Law & Human Behavior, 45(3), 243-255.
  • Vaughan, E. P., Frick, P. J., Ray, J. V., Robertson, E. L., Thornton, L. C., Myers, T., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2021). The associations of maternal warmth and hostility with prosocial and antisocial outcomes in justice-involved adolescents. Developmental Psychology, 57(12), 2179-2191.
  • Walker, T.M., Robertson, E.L., Frick, P.J., Ray, J.V., Thornton, L.C., Myers, T.D.W., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2021). Relationships among callous-unemotional traits, future orientation, optimism, and self-esteem in justice involved adolescents. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 29, 2434-2442.
  • Beardslee, J., Kan, E., Simmons, C., Pardini, D., Peniche, M., Frick, P. J., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2021). A within-individual examination of the predictors of gun carrying during adolescence and young adulthood among young men. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 50(10), 1952–1969.
  • Chen, J. M., Fine, A. D., Norman, J. B., Frick, P. J., & Cauffman, E. (2021). Out of the picture: Latinx and White male youths’ facial features predict their juvenile justice system processing outcomes. Crime & Delinquency, 67(6-7), 787–807.
  • Simmons, C., Kan, E., Simpkins, S., Datta, S., Steinberg, L., Frick, P. J., & Cauffman, E. (2021). Assessing the association between participation in extracurricular activities and delinquent behavior among justice-involved young Men. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 31(2), 335-350.
  • Padgaonkar, N. T., Baker, A. E., Dapretto, M., Galván, A., Frick, P. J., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2021). Exploring disproportionate minority contact in the juvenile justice system over the year following first arrest. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 31(2), 317-334.
  • Kan, E., Knowles, A., Peniche, M., Frick, P. J., Steinberg, L. and Cauffman, E. (2021). Neighborhood disorder and risk-taking among justice-involved youth—the mediating role of life expectancy. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 31(2), 282-298.
  • Cavanagh, C., LaBerge, A., Cauffman, E. (2021). Attitudes toward legal actors among dual system youth. Journal of Social Issues,77(2), 504– 527. 
  • Shulman, E. P., Beardslee, J., Fine, A. D., Frick, P. J., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2021). Exposure to gun violence: Associations with anxiety, depressive Symptoms, and aggression among male juvenile offenders. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 50(3), 353-366.
  • Cauffman, E., Beardslee, J., Fine, A. D., Frick, P., & Steinberg, L. (2021). Crossroads in juvenile justice: The impact of initial processing decision on youth 5 years after first arrest. Development and Psychopathology, 33(2), 700-713.
  • Knowles, A., Rowan, Z., Frick, P. J., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2021). Evading detection during adolescence: The role of criminal capital and psychosocial factors. Justice Quarterly, 38(2), 249-275.
  • Robertson, E. L., Frick, P. J., Ray, J. V., Thornton, L. C., Wall Myers, T. D., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2021). Do callous–unemotional traits moderate the effects of the juvenile justice system on later offending behavior? Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 62(2), 212-222. 

2020

  • Kitzmiller, M. K., Cavanagh, C., Frick, P., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2020). Parental incarceration and the mental health of youth in the justice system: The moderating role of neighborhood disorder. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 27(2), 256–267.
  • Cavanagh, C., Fine, A. D., & Cauffman, E. (2020). How do adolescents develop legal cynicism? A test of legal socialization mechanisms among youth involved in the justice system. Justice Quarterly, 39(3), 478-496.
  • Cavanagh, C., Paruk, J., & Cauffman, E. (2020). Lesson learned? Mothers’ legal knowledge and juvenile rearrests. Law and Human Behavior, 44(2), 157–166. 
  • Cavanagh, C., Dalzell, E., & Cauffman, E. (2020). Documentation status, neighborhood disorder, and attitudes toward police and courts among Latina immigrants. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 26(1), 121–131. 
  • Fine, A., Simmons, C., Cavanagh, C., Rowan, Z., & Cauffman, E. (2020). Implications of youths’ perceptions of police bias and the code of the street for violent offending. Psychology of Violence, 10(5), 473–482. 
  • Simmons, C., Fine, A., Knowles, A., Frick, P. J., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2020). The relation between callous-unemotional traits, psychosocial maturity, and delinquent behavior among justice involved youth. Child Development, 91(1), e120-e133.

2019

  • Matlasz, T. M., Frick, P. J., Robertson, E. L., Ray, J. V., Thornton, L. C., Wall Myers, T. D., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2019). Does self-report of aggression after first arrest predict future offending and do the forms and functions of aggression matter? Psychological Assessment, 32(3), 265–276.
  • Simmons, C., Rowan, Z., Knowles, A., Steinberg, L., Frick, P. J., & Cauffman, E. (2019). A life history approach to understanding juvenile offending and aggression. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 49.
  • Beardslee, J., Miltimore, S., Fine, A. D., Frick, P. J., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2019). Under the radar or under arrest: How is adolescent boys’ first contact with the juvenile justice system related to future offending and arrests? Law and Human Behavior, 43(4), 342–357. 
  • Ray, J. V., Frick, P. J., Thornton, L. C., Wall Myers, T. D., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2019). Estimating and predicting the course of callous-unemotional traits in first-time adolescent offenders. Developmental Psychology, 55(8), 1709–1719.
  • Walsh, H., Wall Myers, T. D., Ray, J. V., Frick, P. J., Thornton, L. C., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2019). Perceptions of police-juvenile contact predicts self-reported offending in adolescent males. Psychology, Crime & Law, 25(10), 963-976.
  • Thornton, L. C., Frick, P. J., Ray, J. V., Wall Myers, T. D., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2019). Risky sex, drugs, sensation seeking, and callous unemotional traits in justice-involved male adolescents. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 48(1), 68-79. 
  • Knowles, A., Rinehart, J. K., Steinberg, L., Frick, P. J., & Cauffman, E. (2021). Risky sexual behavior among arrested adolescent males: The role of future expectations and impulse control. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 30(Suppl. 2), 562–579.
  • Cavanagh, C., Mahler, A., & Cauffman, E. (2019). How does juvenile offending relate to mothers’ aspirations and expectations for their sons? Journal of Research on Adolescence, 29(2), 493–507.

2018

  • Bersani, B. E., Fine, A.D., Piquero, A.R., Steinberg, L., Frick, P.J., & Cauffman, E. (2018).  Investigating the offending histories of undocumented immigrants. Migration Letters, 15, 147-166. Link.
  • Cavanagh, C., Mahler, A., & Cauffman, E. (in press). How does juvenile offending relate to mothers’ aspirations and expectations for their sons? Journal of Research on Adolescence. Link.
  • Cavanagh, C. & Cauffman, E. (in press). The role of re-arrests in juvenile offenders’ and their mothers’ attitudes toward police. Law and Human Behavior.
  • Fine, A., Simmons, C., Miltimore, S., Steinberg, L., Frick, P. J., & Cauffman, E. (2018). The School Experiences of Male Adolescent Offenders: Implications for Academic Performance and Recidivism. Crime & Delinquency, 0011128717750392. Link.
  • Fine, A., Wolff, K., Baglivio, M., Piquero, A., Frick, P., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2018). Does the effect of justice system attitudes on adolescent crime vary based on psychosocial maturity?  Child Development, 89, e468-e479 Link.
  • Mahler, A., Fine, A., Frick, P.J., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, L. (2018).  Expecting the unexpected?  Expectations for future success among adolescent first-time offenders.  Child Development, 89, e535-e551 Link.
  • Myers, T.D.W., Salcedo, A., Frick, P.J., Ray, J.V., Thornton, L.C., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E.  (2018). Understanding the link between exposure to violence and aggression in justice-involved adolescents.  Development and Psychopathology, 30, 593-603. Link.
  • Robertson, E.L., Frick, P.J., Ray, J.V., Thornton, L.C., Myers, T.D.W., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2018).  The associations among callous-unemotional traits, worry, and aggression in justice involved adolescent boys.  Clinical Psychological Science, 6, 671-684. Link.
  • Simmons, C., Fine, A., Knowles, A., Frick, P. J., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2018). The Relation Between Callous‐Unemotional Traits, Psychosocial Maturity, and Delinquent Behavior Among Justice‐Involved Youth. Child development. Link.
  • Simmons, C., Steinberg, L., Frick, P. J., & Cauffman, E. (2018). The differential influence of absent and harsh fathers on juvenile delinquency. Journal of adolescence, 62, 9-17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2017.10.010 Link.

2017

  • Cavanagh, C., & Cauffman, E. (2017). The longitudinal association of relationship quality and reoffending among first-time juvenile offenders and their mothers. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. DOI: 10.1111/jora.12345 Link.
  • Fine, A., Donley, S., Cavanagh, C., Miltimore, S., Steinberg, L., Frick, P., & Cauffman, E. (2017). And Justice for All: Determinants and Effects of Probation Officers’ Processing Decisions Regarding First-Time Juvenile Offenders. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 23(1), 105-117. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/law0000113 Link.
  • Mahler A., Simmons, C., Frick, P.J., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2017). Aspirations, Expectations and Delinquency: The Moderating Effect of Impulse Control. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 46(7), 1503-1514. DOI 10.1007/s10964-017-0661-0 Link.
  • Thomas, A., Ozbardacki, N., Fine, A., & Cauffman, E. (2017). Physical and Emotional Maternal Hostility: Differential Effects on Adolescent Depression and Reoffending. Journal of Research on Adolescence. DOI: 10.1111/jora.12345. Link.
  • Thornton, L. C., Frick, P. J., Ray, J. V., Wall Myers, T. D., Steinberg, L. & Cauffman, E. (2017). Risky sex, drugs, sensation seeking, and callous unemotional traits in justice-involved adolescent males. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. DOI:10.1080/15374416.2017.1399398 Link.

2016

  • Fine, A., Cavanagh, C., Donley, S., Frick, P., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2017). Is the effect of justice system attitudes on recidivism stable after youths’ first arrest? Race and legal socialization among first-time offenders. Law and Human Behavior, 41(2), 146-158. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000229 Link.
  • Fine, A., Cavanagh, C., Donley, S., Frick, P., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (In press). Is the effect of justice system attitudes on recidivism stable after youths’ first arrest? Race and legal socialization among first-time offenders. Law and Human Behavior.
  • Fine, A., Mahler, A., Frick, P., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2016). Individual in Context: The Role of Impulse Control on the Association between the Home, School, and Neighborhood Developmental Contexts and Adolescent Delinquency. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. doi: 10.1007/s10964-016-0565-4 Link.
  • Fine, A., Cavanagh, C., Frick, P., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2016). Can Probation Officers Identify Remorse Among Male Adolescent Offenders? Psychological Assessment. doi: 10.1037/pas0000391 Link.
  • Fine, A., Cavanagh, C., Donley, S., Steinberg, L., Frick, P., & Cauffman, E. (2016). The Role of Peer Arrests on the Development of Youths’ Attitudes towards the Justice System. Law and Human Behavior, 40(2), 211-218. DOI: 10.1037/lhb0000167 Link.
  • Fine, A., Cauffman, E., Steinberg, L., & Frick, P. (2016). Self-Control Assessments and Implications for Predicting Adolescent Reoffending. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 45, 701-712. doi: 10.1007/s10964-016-0425-2. Link.
  • Ray, J. V., Frick, P. J., Thornton, L. C., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2016). Positive and negative item wording and its influence on the assessment of Callous-Unemotional Traits. Psychological Assessment, 28(4), 394-404. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pas0000183 Link.

2015

  • Cavanagh, C., & Cauffman, E. (2015). Viewing law and order: Mothers’ and sons’ justice system legitimacy attitudes and juvenile recidivism. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 21, 432-441. Link.
  • Cavanagh, C., & Cauffman, E. (2015). Land of the free: Undocumented families in the juvenile justice system. Law and Human Behavior, 39, 152-161. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000097 Link. 
  • Ray, J. V., Thornton, L. C., Frick, P. J., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2015). Impulse control and Callous-Unemotional Traits distinguish patterns of delinquency and substance use in justice involved adolescents: Examining the moderating role of neighborhood context. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 1-13. doi:10.1007/s10802-015-0057-0Link.
  • Thornton, L. C., Frick, P. J., Shulman, E. P., Ray, J. V., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2015). Callous-Unemotional Traits and adolescents’ role in group crime. Law andHuman Behavior. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000124 Link.

By Topic

Psychopathy

  • Ray, J., Thornton, L., Frick, P., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (in press). Impulse control and callous-unemotional traits distinguish patterns of delinquency and substance use in justice involved adolescents: Examining the moderating role of neighborhood context. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology.
  • Ray, J., Frick, P., Thornton, L., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (in press). Positive and negative item wording and its influence on the assessment of callous-unemotional traits. Psychological Assessment.
  • *Tatar, J., *Cavanagh, C., & Cauffman, E. (in press). With a little help from my friends: Psychopathy moderates social influence on offending. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law.
  • Thornton, L. Frick, P., *Shulman, E., Steinberg, L. & Cauffman, E. (2015) Callous-unemotional traits and adolescents’ role in group crime. Law & Human Behavior, 39, 368-377.
  • *Kimonis, E., Kostas, F., *Goldweber, A., Marsee, M., Frick, P., & Cauffman, E. (2014). Callous-unemotional traits in incarcerated adolescents. Psychological Assessment, 26, 227-237.
  • Tsang, S., Piquero, A., & Cauffman, E. (2014). An examination of the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version among male adolescent offenders: An item response theory analysis. Psychological Assessment, 26, 1333-1346.
  • *Kimonis, E., *Tatar, J. & Cauffman, E. (2012). Substance related disorders among juvenile offenders: What role do psychopathic traits play? Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 26, 212-225.
  • *Kimonis, E., Frick, P., Cauffman, E., *Goldweber, A., & Skeem, J. (2012). Primary and secondary variants of juvenile psychopathy differ in emotional processing. Development & Psychopathology, 24, 1091-1103.
  • *Tatar, J., Cauffman, E., *Kimonis, E., & Skeem, J. (2012). Victimization history and Post-Traumatic Stress: An analysis of psychopathy variants in male juvenile offenders. Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma, 5, 102-113.
  • *Kimonis, E., Skeem, J., & Cauffman, E., Dmitrieva, J. (2011). Are secondary variants of juvenile psychopathy more reactively violent and less psychosocially mature than primary variants? Law & Human Behavior, 35, 381-391.
  • *Kimonis, E., Ray, J., Branch, J., & Cauffman, E. (2011). Anger mediates the relation between violence exposure and violence perpetration in male juvenile offenders. Child & Youth Care Forum: Special Issue on Trauma Exposure and PTSD in Justice-Involved Youth, 40, 381-400.
  • *Shulman, E., Cauffman, E., Fagan, J. & Piquero, A. (2011). Moral disengagement among serious juvenile offenders: A longitudinal study of the relations between moral cognition and offending. Developmental Psychology, 47, 1619-1632.
  • Cauffman, E., *Kimonis, E., *Dmitrieva, J., *Monahan, K. (2009). A multi-method assessment of juvenile psychopathy: Comparing the predictive utility of the PCL:YV, YPI, and NEO-PRI. Psychological Assessment, 21, 528-542.
  • *Jones, S. & Cauffman, E. (2008). Juvenile psychopathy and judicial decision-making: An empirical analysis of an ethical dilemma. Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 26, 151-165
  • *Jones, S., Cauffman, E., Miller, J. & Mulvey, E. (2006). Investigating different factor structures of the Psychopathy Checklist – Youth Version: Confirmatory factor analytic findings. Psychological Assessment, 18, 33-48.
  • Skeem, J. & Cauffman. E. (2003). Views of the downward extension: Comparing the youth version of the Psychopathy Checklist with the Youth Psychopathic traits Inventory. Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 21, 737-770.
  • Edens, J., Skeem, J., Cruise, K., & Cauffman, E. (2001). The assessment of juvenile psychopathy and its association with violence: A critical review. Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 19, 53-80.

Female Offenders

  • Cauffman, E., *Monahan, K., & *Thomas, A. (2015). Pathways to persistence: Female offending from 14 to 25. Journal of Developmental and Life Course Criminology, 1, 236-268.
  • *Goldweber, A., Cauffman, E., & Cillessen, T. (2014). Peer status among incarcerated female offenders: Associations with social behavior and adjustment. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 24, 720-733.
  • *Monahan, K., *Dmitrieva, J. & Cauffman, E. (2014). Bad romance: Gender differences in the longitudinal association between romantic relationships and deviant behavior. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 24, 12-26.
  • *Goldweber, A. & Cauffman, E. (2012). Relational aggression and the DSM-V: What can clinicians tell us about female juvenile offenders? Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice, 12, 35-47.
  • *Monahan, K., *Meyer, K., *Goldweber, A., & Cauffman, E. (2012). Anxiety and antisocial behavior: The moderating role of perceptions of social prominence among incarcerated females. Youth and Society, 44, 76-94.
  • *Tatar, J., *Kaasa, S., & Cauffman, E. (2011). Perceptions of procedural justice among female offenders: Time does not heal all wounds. Psychology, Public Policy, & Law, 3, 1-29.
  • Cauffman, E. (2008). Understanding the female offender. Future of Children, 18, 119-142.
  • Cauffman, E., *Farruggia, S. & *Goldweber, A. (2008). Bad boys or poor parents: Influences on female juvenile delinquency. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 18, 699-712
  • Cauffman, E., Lexcen, F., *Goldweber, A., *Shulman, E. & Grisso, T. (2007). Gender differences in mental health symptoms among delinquent and community youths. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, 5, 287-307.
  • Cauffman, E., Feldman, S., *Waterman, J. & Steiner, H. (1998). Posttraumatic stress disorder among incarcerated females. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 37, 1209- 1216.

Juvenile Justice

  • *Boessen, A. & Cauffman, E. (in press). Moving from the neighborhood to the cellblock: The impact of youth’s neighborhoods on prison misconduct. Crime & Delinquency.
  •  *Cavanagh, C. & Cauffman, E. (in press). Viewing law and order: Mothers’ and sons’ justice system legitimacy attitudes and juvenile recidivism. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law.
  • *Fine, A., *Cavanagh, C., *Donley, S., Frick, P., Steimberg, L. & Cauffman, E. (in press). The role of peer arrests on the development of youths’ attitudes towards the justice system. Law & Human Behavior.
  • Racz, S., Saha, D., Trent, M., Hoover, A., Bradshaw, C., *Goldweber, A., & Cauffman, E. (in press). Polysubstance use among minority adolescent males incarcerated for serious offenses. Child and Youth Care Forum.
  • Arndorfer, A., *Malloy, L., & Cauffman, E. (2015) Interrogations, confessions, and adolescent offenders’ perceptions of the legal system. Law & Human Behavior, 39, 503-513.
  • *Bechtold, J., *Monahan, K., Wakefield, S. & Cauffman, E. (2015). The role of race in probation monitoring and responses to probation violations among juvenile offenders in two jurisdictions. Psychology, Public Policy, and the Law, 21, 323-337.
  • *Cavanagh, C. & Cauffman, E. (2015). The land of the free: Undocumented families in the juvenile justice system. Law & Human Behavior, 39, 152-161.
  • *Bechtold, J. & Cauffman, E. (2014). Tried as an adult, housed as a juvenile: A tale of youth from two courts incarcerated together. Law & Human Behavior, 38, 126-138.
  • *Bechtold, J., *Cavanagh, C., *Shulman, E. & Cauffman, E. (2014). Does mother know best?: Adolescent and mother report of impulsivity and subsequent delinquency. Journal of Youth & Adolescence, 43, 1903-1913.
  • *Malloy, L., *Shulman, E., & Cauffman, E. (2014). Interrogations, confessions, and guilty pleas among serious adolescent offenders. Law & Human Behavior, 38, 181-193.
  • *Monahan, K., VanDerhei, S., *Bechtold, J., & Cauffman, E. (2014). From the school yard to the squad car: School discipline, truancy, and arrest. Journal of Youth & Adolescence, 43, 1110-1122.
  • *Thomas, A. & Cauffman, E. (2014). Youth sexting as child pornography: Developmental science supports less harsh sanctions for juvenile sexters. New Criminal Law Review, 17, 631-651.
  • *Kaasa, S., Cauffman, E., Clarke-Stewart, A., & Loftus, E. (in press). False accusations in an investigative context: Differences between suggestible and non-suggestible witnesses. Behavioral Sciences & the Law.
  • *Shulman, E. & Cauffman, E. (2014). Is juvenile crime a manifestation of adolescent risk-taking? Law & Human Behavior.
  • *Monahan, K. King, K., *Shulman, E., Chassin, L. & Cauffman, E. (2014). The effects of violence exposure on the development of impulse control and future orientation: Time specific and generalized effects. Development and Psychopathology.
  • *Monahan, K. Steinberg, L., Cauffman, E., & Mulvey, E. (2013). Psychosocial (im)maturity from adolescence to early adulthood: Distinguishing between adolescence-limited and persisting antisocial behavior. Development & Psychopathology, 25, 1093-1105.
  • *Monahan, K., Steinberg, L. & Cauffman, E. (2013). Age differences in the impact of employment on antisocial behavior. Child Development, 84, 791-801.
  • *Dmitrieva, J., *Monahan, K., Cauffman, E., & Steinberg, L. (2012). Arrested development: The effects of incarceration on adolescents’ development of psychosocial maturity. Development & Psychopathology, 24, 1073-1090.
  • Cauffman, E. & Steinberg, L. (2012). Emerging findings from adolescent development and juvenile justice. Victims & Offenders, 7, 428-449.
  • *Goldweber, A., Cauffman, E., *Dmitrieva, J., Piquero, A., & Steinberg, L. (2011). The development of criminal style in adolescence and young adulthood: Separating the lemmings from the loners. Journal of Youth & Adolescence, 40, 332-346
  • *Shulman, E. & Cauffman, E. (2011). Coping while incarcerated: A study of male juvenile offenders? Journal of Research on Adolescence, 21, 818-826.
  • *Monahan, K. C., *Goldweber, A., & Cauffman, E. (2011). The effects of visitation on incarcerated juvenile offenders: How contact with the outside impacts adjustment on the inside. Law & Human Behavior, 35, 143-151.
  • Schubert, C., Mulvey, E., Loughran, T., Fagan, J., Chassin, L., Piquero, A., Losoya, S. Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2010). Predicting outcomes for youth transferred to adult court. Law & Human Behavior, 34, 460-475
  • Loughran, T., Mulvey, E., Schubert, C., Chassin, L., Steinberg, L., Piquero, A., Fagan, J., Cota-Robles, S., Cauffman, E., & Losoya, S. (2010). Differential effects of adult court transfer on juvenile offender recidivism. Law & Human Behavior, 34, 476-488
  • Mulvey, E., Steinberg, L., Piquero, A., Besana, M., Fagan, J., Schubert, C., & Cauffman, E. (2010). Trajectories of desistance and continuity in antisocial behavior following court adjudication among serious adolescent offenders. Development & Psychopathology, 22, 453-475.
  • Chassin, L., *Dmitrieva, J., Modecki, K., Steinberg, L., Cauffman, E., Piquero, A., Knight, G., & Losoya, S. (2010). Does adolescent alcohol and marijuana use predict suppressed growth in psychosocial maturity? Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 4, 48-60.
  • *Monahan, K., Steinberg, L. & Cauffman, E. (2009). Affiliation with antisocial peers, susceptibility to peer influence, and desistance from antisocial behavior during the transition to adulthood. Developmental Psychology, 45, 1520-1530.
  • *Monahan, K., Steinberg, L., Cauffman, E., & Mulvey, E. (2009). Trajectories of antisocial behavior and psychosocial maturity from adolescence to young adulthood. Developmental Psychology, 45, 1654-1668.
  • Cauffman, E., Piquero, A., *Kimonis, E., Steinberg, L., Chassin, L., & Fagan, J. (2007). Legal, individual, and environmental predictors of court disposition in a sample of serious adolescent offenders. Law & Human Behavior, 31, 519-535.
  • *Jones, S., Cauffman, E., & Piquero, A. (2007). The influence of parental support among incarcerated adolescent offenders. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 34, 229-245.
  • Steinberg, L, Blatt-Eisengart, I. & Cauffman, E. (2006). Patterns of competence and adjustment among adolescents from authoritative, authoritarian, indulgent, and neglectful homes: A replication in a sample of serious juvenile offenders. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 16, 47-58.
  • Cauffman, E. & MacIntosh, R. (2006). The measurement validity of the Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument (MAYSI~2): An assessment of race and gender item bias among juvenile offenders. Educational & Psychological Measurement, 66, 502-521.
  • Cauffman, E., Scholle, S., Mulvey, E., & Kelleher, K. (2005). Predicting first time involvement in the juvenile justice system among emotionally disturbed youths receiving mental health services. Psychological Services, 2, 28-38.
  • Cauffman, E., Steinberg, L., & Piquero, A. (2005). Psychological, neuropsychological and physiological correlates of serious antisocial behavior in adolescence: The role of self-control. Criminology, 43, 133- 176.
  • Schubert, C., Mulvey, E., Steinberg, L., Cauffman, E., Losoya, S., Hecker, T., Chassin, L. & Knight, G. (2004). Operational lessons from the pathways to desistance project. Journal of Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, 2, 237-255.
  • Mulvey, E., Steinberg, L., Fagan, J., Cauffman, E., Piquero, A., Chassin, L., Knight, G., Brame, R., Schubert, C., Hecker, T., & Losoya, S. (2004). Theory and research on desistance from antisocial activity among adolescent serious offenders. Journal of Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, 2, 213- 236.
  • Cauffman, E. (2004). A statewide assessment of mental health symptoms among juvenile offenders in detention. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 43, 430-439.
  • Grisso, T., Steinberg, L., Woolard, J., Cauffman, E., Scott, E., Graham, S., Lexcen, F., Reppucci, N., & Schwartz, R. (2003). Juveniles’ competence to stand trial: A comparison of adolescents’ and adults’ capacities as trial defendants. Law & Human Behavior, 27, 333-363.
  • Cauffman, E., Piquero, A., Broidy, L., Espelage, D. & Mazerolle, P. (2004). Heterogeneity in the association between social-emotional adjustment profiles and deviant behavior among male and female serious juvenile offenders. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 48, 235-252.
  • Wasserman, G., McReynolds, L., Ko, S., Katz, L., Cauffman, E., Haxton, W., & Lucas, C. (2004). Screening for emergent risk and psychiatric disorder (service needs) among incarcerated youth: Comparing MAYSI- 2 and Voice DISC-IV. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 43, 629- 639.
  • Wasserman, G., Jensen, P., Ko, S., Cocozza, J., Trupin, E., Angold, A., Cauffman, E., Grisso, T., Arroyo, W., Bigley, M., Burrell, J., Faison, L., Fisher, P., Fricchione, G., Greenhill, L., Haxton, W., Hoagwood, K., Kelly, R., Koyanagi, C., Loughran, E., McReynolds, L., Mufson, L., Quintana, D., Shapiro, L., Snyder, H., Stokes, T., Underwood, L., Wahl, R., & Waslick, B. (2003). Mental health assessments in juvenile justice: Report on the consensus conference. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 42, 752-761.
  • Espelage, D., Cauffman, E., Broidy, L., Mazerolle, P., Piquero, A., & Steiner, H. (2003). A cluster- analytic investigation of MMPI profiles of serious male and female juvenile offenders. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 42, 770-777.
  • Broidy, L., Cauffman, E., Espelage, D., Mazerolle, P., & Piquero, A. (2003). Sex differences in empathy and its relation to juvenile offending. Violence & Victims, 18, 503-516.
  • Grisso, T., Barnum, R., Fletcher, K., Cauffman, E., & Peuschold, D. (2001). Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument for mental health needs of juvenile justice youths. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 40, 541-548.
  • Steiner, H., Cauffman, E., & Duxbury, E. (1999). Personality traits in juvenile delinquents: The relation to criminal behavior and recidivism. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 38, 256-262.
  • Steiner, H. & Cauffman, E. (1998). Juvenile justice, delinquency, and psychiatry. Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 7, 653-672.

Adolescent Development

  • Cavanagh, C., Mahler, A., & Cauffman, E. (in press). How does juvenile offending relate to mothers’ aspirations and expectations for their sons? Journal of Research on Adolescence.
  • Cauffman, E., *Fine, A., *Thomas, A. & *Monahan, K. (in press). Trajectories of violent behavior among females and males. Child Development.
  • *Monahan, K. King, K., *Shulman, E., Chassin, L. & Cauffman, E. (2015). The effects of violence exposure on the development of impulse control and future orientation: Time specific and generalized effects. Development and Psychopathology, 27, 1267-1283
  • *Thomas, A., Monahan, K., Lukowski, A., & Cauffman, E. (2015). Sleep problems across development: A pathway to adolescent risk taking through working memory. Journal of Youth & Adolescence, 44, 447-464.
  • *Shulman, E. & Cauffman, E. (2014). Deciding in the dark: Age differences in intuitive risk judgment. Developmental Psychology, 50, 167-177.
  • Spieker, S., Pierce, K., Campbell, S., Cauffman, E., Susman, E., Vandergrift, N., Roisman, G. & the NICHD Network. (2012). Relational aggression in middle childhood: Predictors and adolescent outcomes. Social Development, 21, 354-375.
  • Maslowsky, J., Buvinger, E., Keating, D., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2011). Cost-benefit analysis mediation of the relationship between sensation seeking and risk behavior. Personality and Individual Differences, 51, 802-806.
  • Roisman, G. I., *Monahan, K. C., Campbell, S., B., Steinberg, L., Cauffman, E., & the NICHD Early Child Care Research Network (2010). Is adolescence-onset antisocial behavior developmentally normative? Development & Psychopathology, 22, 295-311.
  • Cauffman, E., *Shulman, E., Steinberg, L., Claus, E., Banich, M., Woolard, J., & Graham, S. (2010). Age differences in affective decision making as indexed by performance on the Iowa Gambling Task. Developmental Psychology, 46, 193-207.
  • Susman, L., Houts, R., Steinberg, L., Belsky, J., Cauffman, E., DeHart, G., Friedman, S., Roisman, G., Halpern-Felsher, B., & the NICHD Early Child Care Research Network. (2010). Longitudinal development of secondary sexual characteristics in girls and boys between ages 9 ½ to 15 ½. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 164, 166-173.
  • Steinberg, L., Graham, S., O’Brien, L., Woolard, J., Cauffman, E. & Banich, M. (2009). Age differences in future orientation and delay discounting. Child Development, 80, 28-44.
  • Roisman, G., Booth-LaForce, C., Cauffman, E., & Spieker, S. & the NICHD Network. (2009). The developmental significance of adolescent romantic relationships: Parent and peer predictors of quality and engagement at age 15. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 38, 1294-1303.
  • Steinberg, L., Albert, D., Cauffman, E., Banich, M., Graham, S., & Woolard, J. (2008). Age differences in sensation seeking and impulsivity as indexed by behavior and self-report: Evidence for a dual systems model. Developmental Psychology, 44, 1764-1778.
  • Belsky, J., Steinberg, L., Houts, R., Friedman, S., de Hart, G., Cauffman, E., Roisman, G., Halpern- Flesher, B. & Susman, L. (2007). Family rearing antecedents of pubertal timing: Testing two evolutionary hypotheses. Child Development, 78, 1302-1321.
  • Jensen Arnett, L., Arnett Jensen, J., Feldman, S.S., & Cauffman, E. (2004). The right to do wrong: Lying to parents among adolescents and emerging adults. Journal of Adolescent Research, 33, 101- 112.
  • Jensen Arnett, L., Arnett Jensen, J., Feldman, S.S., & Cauffman, E. (2002). It’s wrong, but everybody does it: Academic dishonesty among high school and college students. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 27, 209-228.
  • Halpern-Felsher, B. & Cauffman, E. (2001). Costs and benefits of a decision: Decision-making competence in adolescents and adults. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 22, 257-273.
  • Feldman, S., Cauffman, E., Jensen, L., & Arnett, J. (2000). The (un)acceptability of betrayal: A study of college students’ evaluations of sexual betrayal by a romantic partner and betrayal of a friend’s confidence. Journal of Youth & Adolescence, 29, 499-523.
  • Cauffman, E., Feldman, S., Jensen, L. & Arnett, J. (2000). The (un)acceptability of violence against peers and dates. Journal of Adolescent Research, 15, 652-673.
  • Cauffman, E. & Steinberg, L. (2000). (Im)maturity of judgment in adolescence: Why adolescents may be less culpable than adults. Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 18, 741-760.
  • Feldman, S. & Cauffman, E. (1999). Your cheatin’ heart: Attitudes, behaviors, and correlates of sexual betrayal in late adolescents. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 9, 227-252.
  • Feldman, S. S., & Cauffman, E. (1999). Sexual betrayal among late adolescents: Perspectives of the perpetrator and the aggrieved. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 28, 235-258.
  • Cauffman, E. & Steinberg, L. (1996). Interactive effects of menarcheal status and dating on dieting and disordered eating among adolescent girls. Developmental Psychology, 32, 631-635. (Reprinted in: R. Muuss (Ed.), (1998). Adolescent behavior and society: A book of readings (5th edition). New York: McGraw-Hill.)
  • Steinberg, L. & Cauffman, E. (1995). The impact of employment on adolescent development. Annals of Child Development, 11, 131-166.