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Matt DeLisi publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Matt DeLisi sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 410 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Matt DeLisi D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Matt DeLisi sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 82 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Matt DeLisi is affiliated with Iowa State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with a substantial focus on Clinical Psychology and Sociology and Political Science. Their work also intersects with subfields such as Social Psychology, Applied Psychology, and Health.

The main topics studied by Matt DeLisi include:

  • Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Personality Traits and Psychology

DeLisi has contributed extensively to several scholarly journals, with frequent publications in:

  • International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
  • Journal of Criminal Psychology
  • American Journal of Criminal Justice
  • Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice
  • Behavioral Sciences & the Law

Selected recent publications include:

  • The Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Psychopathic Features on Juvenile Offending Criminal Careers to Age 18 (2020), Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice
  • Toward an Understanding of the Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on the Recidivism of Serious Juvenile Offenders (2020), American Journal of Criminal Justice
  • The dark figure of sexual offending: A replication and extension (2020), Behavioral Sciences & the Law
  • The Code of the Street Fights Back! Significant Associations with Arrest, Delinquency, and Violence Withstand Psychological Confounds (2020), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Screening for dark personalities in Portugal: Intra- and interpersonal correlates, reliability and invariance of the Short Dark Tetrad Portuguese version (2022), Deviant Behavior

Co-authors frequently collaborating with Matt DeLisi include:

  • Pedro Pechorro
  • Mário R. Simões
  • Michael G. Vaughn
  • João Marôco
  • Rui Abrunhosa Gonçalves

Best Publications

  • New frontiers in criminal careers research, 2000-2011: A state-of-the-art review

    Matt DeLisi;Alex R. Piquero

  • Delinquency in Society

    Matt DeLisi

  • Career Criminals in Society

    Matt DeLisi

  • Psychopathy is the Unified Theory of Crime

    Matt DeLisi

  • Foundation for a temperament-based theory of antisocial behavior and criminal justice system involvement

    Matt DeLisi;Michael G. Vaughn

  • Violence and Externalizing Behavior Among Youth in the United States: Is There a Severe 5%?

    Michael G. Vaughn;Christopher P. Salas-Wright;Matt DeLisi;Brandy R. Maynard

  • Self-control behind bars: A validation study of the Grasmick et al. scale

    Matt Delisi;Andy Hochstetler;Daniel S. Murphy

  • The Severe 5%: A Latent Class Analysis of the Externalizing Behavior Spectrum in the United States.

    Michael G. Vaughn;Matt DeLisi;Tracy Gunter;Qiang Fu

  • Murder by numbers: monetary costs imposed by a sample of homicide offenders

    Matt DeLisi;Anna Kosloski;Molly Sween;Emily Hachmeister

  • Gang Members, Career Criminals and Prison Violence: Further Specification of the Importation Model of Inmate Behavior

    Matt DeLisi;Mark T. Berg;Andy Hochstetler

  • Self-Control as an Executive Function: Reformulating Gottfredson and Hirschi's Parental Socialization Thesis

    Kevin M. Beaver;John Paul Wright;Matt Delisi

  • The correctional melting pot: Race, ethnicity, citizenship, and prison violence

    Mark T. Berg;Matt DeLisi

  • Importation, deprivation, and varieties of serving time: An integrated-lifestyle-exposure model of prison offending

    Andy Hochstetler;Matt DeLisi

  • A gene × gene interaction between DRD2 and DRD4 is associated with conduct disorder and antisocial behavior in males

    Kevin M Beaver;John Paul Wright;Matt DeLisi;Anthony Walsh

  • Genetic influences on the stability of low self-control: Results from a longitudinal sample of twins

    Kevin M. Beaver;John Paul Wright;Matt DeLisi;Michael G. Vaughn

  • Monoamine oxidase A genotype is associated with gang membership and weapon use.

    Kevin M. Beaver;Matt DeLisi;Michael G. Vaughn;J.C. Barnes

  • Psychopathic personality traits and delinquent careers: An empirical examination

    Michael G. Vaughn;Matthew O. Howard;Matt DeLisi

  • Violent Video Games, Delinquency, and Youth Violence: New Evidence

    Matt DeLisi;Michael G. Vaughn;Douglas A. Gentile;Craig A. Anderson

  • Evidence of Negligible Parenting Influences on Self‐Control, Delinquent Peers, and Delinquency in a Sample of Twins

    John Wright;Kevin Beaver;Matt Delisi;Michael Vaughn

  • Criminal Careers Behind Bars

    Matt DeLisi

  • Psychopathy as Unified Theory of Crime

    Matt DeLisi

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael G. Vaughn
Michael G. Vaughn Saint Louis University
Kevin M. Beaver
Kevin M. Beaver Florida State University
John Paul Wright
John Paul Wright University of Cincinnati
Brian E. Perron
Brian E. Perron University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Matthew O. Howard
Matthew O. Howard University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Alex R. Piquero
Alex R. Piquero University of Miami
Michael T. Baglivio
Michael T. Baglivio University of South Florida
James W. Marquart
James W. Marquart The University of Texas at Dallas
Kevin T. Wolff
Kevin T. Wolff John Jay College of Criminal Justice

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