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Overview

Paul Boxer is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research broadly spans psychology and social sciences, with a strong focus on clinical psychology and intersections with sociology and political science. Key subfields include clinical psychology, sociology and political science, health, social psychology, and education.

Their work addresses several main topics, notably child abuse and trauma, gun ownership and violence research, bullying, victimization and aggression, migration, health and trauma, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, crime patterns and interventions, as well as suicide and self-harm studies.

Paul Boxer's publication record includes articles in various academic journals. Recent papers include:

  • "Gun Laws and Youth Gun Carrying: Results from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, 2005-2017," published in 2021 in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • "Identifying participants for inclusion in hospital-based violence intervention: An analysis of 18 years of urban firearm recidivism," published in 2020 in The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care
  • "Addressing the inappropriate use of force by police in the United States and beyond: A behavioral and social science perspective," published in 2021 in Aggressive Behavior
  • "Trauma Exposure and Mental Health Needs Among Adolescents Involved With the Juvenile Justice System," published in 2021 in Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • "The Impact of Firearm Legislation on Firearm Deaths, 1991-2017," published in 2021 in Journal of Public Health

Their frequent coauthors include Eric F. Dubow, L. Rowell Huesmann, Meagan Docherty, Franklin Moreno, and Kaylise Algrim.

Publications appear in journals such as Aggressive Behavior, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, Journal of Community Psychology, and The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care.

This profile reflects research interests and contributions primarily situated within child and adolescent psychology and violence-related topics, including behavioral responses and social scientific perspectives on force and trauma. The diversity of publication venues underscores a multidisciplinary approach within psychology and social sciences.

Best Publications

  • Long-term Effects of Parents' Education on Children's Educational and Occupational Success: Mediation by Family Interactions, Child Aggression, and Teenage Aspirations

    Eric F. Dubow;Paul Boxer;L. Rowell Huesmann

  • Continuity of aggression from childhood to early adulthood as a predictor of life outcomes: implications for the adolescent‐limited and life‐course‐persistent models

    L. Rowell Huesmann;Eric F. Dubow;Eric F. Dubow;Paul Boxer;Paul Boxer

  • Linkages between internet and other media violence with seriously violent behavior by youth.

    Michele L. Ybarra;Marie Diener-West;Dana Markow;Philip J. Leaf

  • The Role of Violent Media Preference in Cumulative Developmental Risk for Violence and General Aggression

    Paul Boxer;Paul Boxer;L. Rowell Huesmann;Brad J. Bushman;Brad J. Bushman;Maureen O’Brien

  • Educational aspiration-expectation discrepancies: relation to socioeconomic and academic risk-related factors.

    Paul Boxer;Sara E. Goldstein;Tahlia DeLorenzo;Sarah Savoy

  • Social-Cognitive Mediators of the Relation of Environmental and Emotion Regulation Factors to Children's Aggression.

    Dara R. Musher-Eizenman;Paul Boxer;Stephanie Danner;Eric F. Dubow

  • Middle School Transition Stress: Links with Academic Performance, Motivation, and School Experiences.

    Sara E. Goldstein;Paul Boxer;Erin Rudolph

  • Adolescents' Physical Aggression Toward Parents in a Clinic-Referred Sample

    Paul Boxer;Rebecca Lakin Gullan;Annette Mahoney

  • Proximal Peer-Level Effects of a Small-Group Selected Prevention on Aggression in Elementary School Children: An Investigation of the Peer Contagion Hypothesis

    Paul Boxer;Paul Boxer;Nancy G. Guerra;L. Rowell Huesmann;Julie Morales

  • Exposure to violence across the social ecosystem and the development of aggression: a test of ecological theory in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

    Paul Boxer;L. Rowell Huesmann;Eric F. Dubow;Simha F. Landau

  • Is It Bad to Be Good? An Exploration of Aggressive and Prosocial Behavior Subtypes in Adolescence

    Paul Boxer;Marie S. Tisak;Sara E. Goldstein

  • A Social-Cognitive-Ecological Framework for Understanding the Impact of Exposure to Persistent Ethnic-Political Violence on Children’s Psychosocial Adjustment

    Eric F. Dubow;Eric F. Dubow;L. Rowell Huesmann;Paul Boxer;Paul Boxer

  • Exposure to Conflict and Violence Across Contexts: Relations to Adjustment Among Palestinian Children

    Eric F. Dubow;Paul Boxer;L. Rowell Huesmann;Khalil Shikaki

  • Initial Investigation of Jewish Early Adolescents’ Ethnic Identity, Stress, and Coping

    Eric F. Dubow;Kenneth I. Pargament;Paul Boxer;Nalini Tarakeshwar

  • Middle childhood and adolescent contextual and personal predictors of adult educational and occupational outcomes: a mediational model in two countries.

    Eric F. Dubow;L. Rowell Huesmann;Paul Boxer;Lea Pulkkinen

  • The role of weight stigmatization in cumulative risk for binge eating

    Liliana Almeida;Sarah Savoy;Paul Boxer

  • Exposure to Violent Crime During Incarceration: Effects on Psychological Adjustment Following Release

    Paul Boxer;Keesha Middlemass;Tahlia Delorenzo

  • Childhood and adolescent predictors of early and middle adulthood alcohol use and problem drinking: the Columbia County Longitudinal Study

    Eric F. Dubow;Eric F. Dubow;Paul Boxer;Paul Boxer;L. Rowell Huesmann

  • Assessing Allegations of Domestic Violence in Child Custody Evaluations

    James N. Bow;Paul Boxer

  • Preschoolers' Normative and Prescriptive Judgments about Relational and Overt Aggression

    Sara E. Goldstein;Marie S. Tisak;Paul Boxer

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric F. Dubow
Eric F. Dubow Bowling Green State University
L. Rowell Huesmann
L. Rowell Huesmann University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Brad J. Bushman
Brad J. Bushman The Ohio State University
Amanda Sheffield Morris
Amanda Sheffield Morris Oklahoma State University
Dara R. Musher-Eizenman
Dara R. Musher-Eizenman Bowling Green State University
Annette Mahoney
Annette Mahoney Bowling Green State University
Nancy G. Guerra
Nancy G. Guerra University of California, Irvine
Paul J. Frick
Paul J. Frick Louisiana State University
Kenneth I. Pargament
Kenneth I. Pargament Bowling Green State University
Katja Kokko
Katja Kokko University of Jyväskylä

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