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2014. “The Relationship Between Self-Control in Adolescence and Social Consequences in Adulthood: A Genetically Informative Analysis” Journal of Criminal Justice.
2013. “Do Families Matter?” The Oxford Handbook of Criminological Theory.
2013. “Genetic, Maternal, School, Intelligence, and Media Use Predictors of Adult Criminality: A Longitudinal Test of the Catalyst Model in Adolescence Through Early Adulthood” Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma.
2013. “Examining the Effects of Dopamine Genes on Verbal IQ Within and Between Families” Journal of Neural Transmission.
2013. “The Code of the Street and Inmate Violence: Investigating the Salience of Imported Belief Systems” Criminology.
2012. “Young Adults’ ‘Need’: In the Eye of the Beholder?” Early Adulthood in a Family Context.
2007. “Compounded Risk: The Implications for Delinquency of Coming from a Poor Family that Lives in a Poor Community” Journal of Youth and Adolescence.
2007. “Social Organization and Instrumental Crime: Assessing the Empirical Validity of Classic and Contemporary Anomie Theories” Criminology.
2006. “Structure and Culture in African-American Adolescent Violence: A Partial Test of the Code of the Street Thesis” Justice Quarterly.
2006. “The Impact of Community Disadvantage on the Relationship Between the Family and Juvenile Crime” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency.
2005. “Juvenile Court Referrals in Texas: An Assessment of Criminogenic Needs and the Gap Between Needs and Services” The Prison Journal.
2003. “Family Strain, Gender, and Delinquency” Sociological Perspectives.
2000. “The Effects of Delinquency and Legal Sanctions on Parenting Behaviors” Families, Crime, and Criminal Justice: Charting the Linkages.
1979. “Accelerated Family Intervention in Juvenile Justice” Crime & Delinquency.