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Overview

Elizabeth Cauffman is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their primary research fields span Social Sciences and Psychology, with a significant emphasis on Clinical Psychology and Sociology and Political Science as subfields.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies

Elizabeth Cauffman has contributed articles to a variety of publication venues where they have frequently published. These venues include:

  • Journal of Research on Adolescence
  • Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology
  • Law and Human Behavior
  • CrimRxiv
  • Development and Psychopathology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Elizabeth Cauffman highlight their focus on adolescent development, juvenile justice, and forensic psychology. Selected papers include:

  • "Adolescent decision making: A decade in review," published in 2021 in the Journal of Research on Adolescence
  • "Callous-Unemotional Traits and Risk of Gun Carrying and Use During Crime," published in 2020 in the American Journal of Psychiatry
  • "Neurobiology of eating behavior, nutrition, and health," published in 2023 in the Journal of Internal Medicine
  • "Crossroads in juvenile justice: The impact of initial processing decision on youth 5 years after first arrest," published in 2021 in Development and Psychopathology
  • "Developing Cutoff Scores for the Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits (ICU) in Justice-Involved and Community Samples," published in 2021 in the Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology

Elizabeth Cauffman collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Paul J. Frick
  • Laurence Steinberg
  • Jordan Beardslee
  • Adam Fine
  • Caitlin Cavanagh

Best Publications

  • Age differences in sensation seeking and impulsivity as indexed by behavior and self-report: evidence for a dual systems model.

    Laurence Steinberg;Dustin Albert;Elizabeth Cauffman;Marie Banich

  • Age Differences in Future Orientation and Delay Discounting

    Laurence D. Steinberg;Sandra Graham;Lia O’Brien;Jennifer Woolard

  • Maturity of judgment in adolescence: Psychosocial factors in adolescent decision making.

    Laurence Steinberg;Elizabeth Cauffman

  • (Im)maturity of judgment in adolescence: Why adolescents may be less culpable than adults.

    Elizabeth Cauffman;Laurence Steinberg

  • Juveniles' competence to stand trial: a comparison of adolescents' and adults' capacities as trial defendants.

    Thomas Grisso;Laurence Steinberg;Jennifer Woolard;Elizabeth Cauffman

  • Age differences in affective decision making as indexed by performance on the Iowa Gambling Task.

    Elizabeth Cauffman;Elizabeth P. Shulman;Laurence Steinberg;Eric Claus

  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Female Juvenile Offenders

    Elizabeth Cauffman;S. Shirley Feldman;Jaime Waterman;Hans Steiner

  • Affiliation With Antisocial Peers, Susceptibility to Peer Influence, and Antisocial Behavior During the Transition to Adulthood

    Kathryn C. Monahan;Laurence Steinberg;Elizabeth Cauffman

  • AN EMPIRICAL FRAMEWORK FOR STUDYING DESISTANCE AS A PROCESS

    Shawn D. Bushway;Alex R. Piquero;Lisa M. Broidy;Elizabeth Cauffman

  • Assessment of ``Juvenile Psychopathy'' and Its Association with Violence: A Critical Review

    John F. Edens;Jennifer L. Skeem;Keith R. Cruise;Elizabeth Cauffman

  • THEORY AND RESEARCH ON DESISTANCE FROM ANTISOCIAL ACTIVITY AMONG SERIOUS ADOLESCENT OFFENDERS

    Edward P. Mulvey;Laurence Steinberg;Jeffrey A. Fagan;Elizabeth Cauffman

  • It's Wrong, But Everybody Does It: Academic Dishonesty among High School and College Students

    Lene Arnett Jensen;Jeffrey Jensen Arnett;S.Shirley Feldman;Elizabeth Cauffman

  • Trajectories of Antisocial Behavior and Psychosocial Maturity From Adolescence to Young Adulthood

    Kathryn C. Monahan;Laurence Steinberg;Elizabeth Cauffman;Edward P. Mulvey

  • Patterns of Competence and Adjustment Among Adolescents from Authoritative, Authoritarian, Indulgent, and Neglectful Homes: A Replication in a Sample of Serious Juvenile Offenders

    Laurence Steinberg;Ilana Blatt-Eisengart;Elizabeth Cauffman

  • Are adolescents less mature than adults?: minors' access to abortion, the juvenile death penalty, and the alleged APA "flip-flop"

    Laurence Steinberg;Elizabeth Cauffman;Jennifer Woolard;Sandra Graham

  • OPERATIONAL LESSONS FROM THE PATHWAYS TO DESISTANCE PROJECT.

    Carol A. Schubert;Edward P. Mulvey;Laurence Steinberg;Elizabeth Cauffman

  • From the school yard to the squad car: school discipline, truancy, and arrest.

    Kathryn C. Monahan;Susan VanDerhei;Jordan Bechtold;Elizabeth Cauffman

  • Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument for mental health needs of juvenile justice youths.

    Thomas Grisso;Richard Barnum;Kenneth E. Fletcher;Elizabeth Cauffman

  • PSYCHOLOGICAL, NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF SERIOUS ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR IN ADOLESCENCE: THE ROLE OF SELF‐CONTROL*

    Elizabeth Cauffman;Laurence Steinberg;Alex R. Piquero

  • Family rearing antecedents of pubertal timing.

    Jay Belsky;Laurence D. Steinberg;Renate M. Houts;Sarah L. Friedman

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurence Steinberg
Laurence Steinberg Temple University
Paul J. Frick
Paul J. Frick Louisiana State University
Kathryn C. Monahan
Kathryn C. Monahan University of Pittsburgh
Eva R. Kimonis
Eva R. Kimonis University of New South Wales
Glenn I. Roisman
Glenn I. Roisman University of Minnesota
Edward P. Mulvey
Edward P. Mulvey University of Pittsburgh
Carol A. Schubert
Carol A. Schubert University of Pittsburgh
S. Shirley Feldman
S. Shirley Feldman Stanford University
Sandra Graham
Sandra Graham University of California, Los Angeles
Laurie Chassin
Laurie Chassin Arizona State University

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