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Overview

Eric Silver is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States and has an extensive record of research primarily within the social sciences and neuroscience.

Their research contributions span several key topics, including:

  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Critical Race Theory in Education
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Racial and Ethnic Identity Research

Eric Silver's major fields of study are Social Sciences, with 42 publications, and Neuroscience, with 13 publications. Their subfields of study include Sociology and Political Science, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Political Science and International Relations, and Health.

Frequent publication venues for Eric Silver's work include:

  • Social Science Research
  • Social Science Quarterly
  • Justice Quarterly
  • Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World
  • Criminology

Their recent papers demonstrate a focus on moral psychology and social justice issues. Notable works include:

  • "Social order and social justice: Moral intuitions, systemic racism beliefs, and Americans' divergent attitudes toward Black Lives Matter and police," published in 2022 in Criminology
  • "Moral Intuitions and Suicide Risk: Results from a National Sample of Icelandic Youth," published in 2020 in Social Forces

Eric Silver has collaborated frequently with other researchers such as Kerby Goff, John Iceland, Jason R. Silver, Richard B. Felson, and Jeffery T. Ulmer, indicating active engagement in collaborative research efforts across related disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Violence by people discharged from acute psychiatric inpatient facilities and by others in the same neighborhoods.

    Henry J. Steadman;Edward P. Mulvey;John Monahan;Pamela Clark Robbins

  • Rethinking Risk Assessment: The MacArthur Study of Mental Disorder and Violence

    John Monahan;Henry J. Steadman;Eric Silver;Paul S. Appelbaum

  • A Classification Tree Approach to the Development of Actuarial Violence Risk Assessment Tools

    Henry J. Steadman;Eric Silver;John Monahan;Paul S. Appelbaum

  • Developing a clinically useful actuarial tool for assessing violence risk

    John Monahan;Henry J. Steadman;Paul S. Appelbaum;Pamela Clark Robbins

  • Neighborhood structural characteristics and mental disorder: Faris and Dunham revisited.

    Eric Silver;Edward P. Mulvey;Jeffrey W. Swanson

  • SOURCES OF INFORMAL SOCIAL CONTROL IN CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOODS

    Eric Silver;Lisa L. Miller

  • An actuarial model of violence risk assessment for persons with mental disorders

    John Monahan;Henry J. Steadman;Pamela Clark Robbins;Paul Appelbaum

  • Policing mentally disordered suspects: a reexamination of the criminalization hypothesis

    Robin Shepard Engel;Eric Silver

  • Neighborhood Characteristics, Peer Networks, and Adolescent Violence

    Dana L. Haynie;Eric Silver;Brent Teasdale

  • Assessing violence risk among discharged psychiatric patients: toward an ecological approach.

    Eric Silver;Edward P. Mulvey;John Monahan

  • The Role of Depressed Mood and Anger in the Relationship between Family Conflict and Delinquent Behavior.

    Inga Dora Sigfusdottir;George Farkas;Eric Silver

  • MENTAL DISORDER AND VIOLENT VICTIMIZATION: THE MEDIATING ROLE OF INVOLVEMENT IN CONFLICTED SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS*

    Eric Silver

  • Beyond criminalization: toward a criminologically informed framework for mental health policy and services research.

    William H. Fisher;Eric Silver;Nancy Wolff

  • A Cautionary Note on the Use of Actuarial Risk Assessment Tools for Social Control

    Eric Silver;Linda L. Miller

  • Mental Disorder, Violence, and Gender

    Pamela Clark Robbins;John Monahan;Eric Silver

  • Mental disorder and violent victimization in a total birth cohort.

    Eric Silver;Louise Arseneault;John Desmond Langley;Avshalom Caspi

  • EXTENDING SOCIAL DISORGANIZATION THEORY: A MULTILEVEL APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF VIOLENCE AMONG PERSONS WITH MENTAL ILLNESSES

    Eric Silver

  • The Classification of Violence Risk

    John Monahan;Henry J. Steadman;Paul S. Appelbaum;Thomas Grisso

  • Demythologizing inaccurate perceptions of the insanity defense.

    Eric Silver;Carmen Cirincione;Henry J. Steadman

  • Assessing the Violent Offending and Violent Victimization Overlap Among Discharged Psychiatric Patients

    Eric Silver;Alex R. Piquero;Wesley G. Jennings;Nicole L. Piquero

Frequent Co-Authors

John Monahan
John Monahan University of Virginia
Thomas Grisso
Thomas Grisso University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Edward P. Mulvey
Edward P. Mulvey University of Pittsburgh
Jennifer L. Skeem
Jennifer L. Skeem University of California, Berkeley
Richard B. Felson
Richard B. Felson Pennsylvania State University
Kirk Heilbrun
Kirk Heilbrun Drexel University
George Farkas
George Farkas University of California, Irvine
Avshalom Caspi
Avshalom Caspi Duke University
Wesley G. Jennings
Wesley G. Jennings University of Mississippi
Terrie E. Moffitt
Terrie E. Moffitt Duke University

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