Books Under Contract

The Mind of the Criminal: The Role of Social Cognition in Criminal Law (Cambridge University Press) ___ (Forthcoming, 2010). [Selected chapters available upon request]

Articles (Full text of most articles available at http://ssrn.com/author=924700)

Publications in Law Reviews and Legal Journals

An Attack on Self-Defense, 47 American Criminal Law Review 57 (2010). [pdf]

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1275858

The American Criminal Law Review has devoted a Special Section of an upcoming issue to this Article, with a Reply by Prof. Michael Corrado (U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill), my Rejoinder, and Prof. Corrado’s closing Comment.

Mistaking Mistaken Self-Defense as Justification: A Reply to Professor Corrado, 47 American Criminal Law Review 97 (2010). [pdf]

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1559142

Adequate (Non)Provocation and Heat of Passion as Excuse Not Justification, 43 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 27 (2009). [pdf]

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1087862

The University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform devoted a Special Issue/Symposium to this Article, with response Essays by Professors Marcia Baron (U. Indiana-Bloomington), Gabriel “Jack” Chin (U. Arizona), Kyron Huigens (Cardozo), Stephen Morse (U. Pennsylvania), Samuel Pillsbury (Loyola-Los Angeles), Robert Weisberg (Stanford), and Peter Westen (U. Michigan), and my Rejoinder (see below).

On Passion’s Potential to Undermine Rationality: A Reply, 43 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 207 (2009). [pdf]

The Wrongfulness of Wrongly Interpreting Wrongfulness: Provocation Interpretational Bias and Heat of Passion Homicide, 12 New Criminal Law Review 69 (2009). [Refereed] [pdf]

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1087820

On the Boundaries of Culture as an Affirmative Defense, 51 Arizona Law Review 237 (2009). [Comment, co-authored with E. M. Held] [pdf]

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1376609

Reactive Cognition, Reactive Emotion: Toward a More Psychologically-Informed Understanding of Reactive Homicide, 14 Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 243 (2008). [Refereed] [pdf]

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1220677

Social Information Processing, Subtypes of Violence, and a Progressive Construction of Culpability and Punishment in Juvenile Justice, 31 International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 136 (2008). [Refereed] [pdf]

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1087845

Disentangling the Psychology and Law of Instrumental and Reactive Subtypes of Aggression, 13 Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 143 (2007). [Refereed] [pdf]

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1081005

Publications in Behavioral Science Journals (Psychology of Delinquency/Criminal Violence)

Does response evaluation and decision (RED) mediate the relation between hostile attributional style and antisocial behavior in adolescence?, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology (in press). [Refereed, First Author; co-authored by M. Tanha, C. Yang, K. A. Dodge, J. E. Bates, & G. S. Pettit] [pdf]

Development of Response Evaluation and Decision (RED) and Antisocial Behavior in Childhood and Adolescence, 45 Development and Psychopathology 447 (2009). [Refereed, First Author; co-authored by C. Yang, K. A. Dodge, G. S. Pettit, & J. E. Bates] [pdf]

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1381018

Loneliness as a Partial Mediator of the Relation between Low Social Preference in Childhood and Anxious/Depressed Symptoms in Adolescence, 21 Developmental Psychology 479 (2009). [Refereed, First Author; co-authored by C. Yang, V. S. Burks, K. A. Dodge, J. M. Price, G. S. Pettit, & J. E. Bates] [pdf]

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1381019

“Social Information Processing and Aggressive Behavior: A Transactional Perspective.” In A. J. Sameroff (Ed.), The Transactional Model of Development: How Children and Contexts Shape Each Other (pp. 117-135). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. [Refereed, First Author; co-authored by K. A. Dodge] [pdf]

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1089922

On-Line Social Decision Making and Antisocial Behavior: Some Essential but Neglected Issues, 28 Clinical Psychology Review 17 (2008). [Refereed] [pdf]

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1081003

Testing an Individual Systems Model of Response Evaluation and Decision (RED) and Antisocial Behavior across Adolescence, 79 Child Development 462 (2008). [Refereed/First Author; co-authored by C. Yang, K. A. Dodge, J. E. Bates, & G. S. Pettit] [pdf]

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1089923

Social Information Processing and Cardiac Predictors of Antisocial Behavior in a Community Sample of Adolescents, 117 Journal of Abnormal Psychology 253 (2008). [Refereed; co-authored with J. C. Crozier, K. A. Dodge, J. E. Lansford, J. E., Bates, G. S. Pettit, & R. W. Levenson] [pdf]

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1448775

Toward a Conceptual Framework of Instrumental Antisocial Decision-Making and Behavior in Youth, 27 Clinical Psychology Review 655 (2007). [Refereed] [pdf]

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1089924

Applying Systems Principles to Models of Social Information Processing and Aggressive Behavior in Youth, 11 Aggression and Violent Behavior 64 (2006). [Refereed] [pdf]

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1089925

Evaluative Behavioral Judgments and Instrumental Antisocial Behaviors in Children and Adolescents, 26 Clinical Psychology Review 956 (2006). [Refereed] [pdf]

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1089927

Real-Time Decision Making and Aggressive Behavior in Youth: A Heuristic Model of Response Evaluation and Decision (RED), 32 Aggressive Behavior 604 (2006). [Refereed, First Author; co-authored by K. A. Dodge] [pdf]

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1089930

Peer Rejection and Social Information-Processing Factors in the Development of Aggressive Behavior Problems in Children, 74 Child Development 374 (2003). [Refereed; co-authored with K. A. Dodge, J. E. Lansford, V. S. Burks, J. E. Bates, G. S. Pettit, & J. M. Price] [pdf]

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1089928

Response Decision Processes and Externalizing Behavior Problems in Adolescents, 14 Development and Psychopathology 107 (2002). [Refereed, First Author; co-authored by V. S. Burks & K. A. Dodge] [pdf]

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1089931

Policy Reports

Brief Review of the Efficacy of Triple-P (Positive Parenting Program) for Consideration of Population-Level Dissemination in North Carolina. Report to the Duke Endowment, Durham, North Carolina (2007). [First Author; co-authored by K. A. Dodge]

Willie M.: Legacy of Legal, Social, and Policy Change on Behalf of Children. Report to the State of North Carolina, Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services (2000). [Co-authored by J. B. Kupersmidt & K. A. Dodge]

Articles Submitted or in Preparation

Upsetting the Reasonable Child (Standard), (Article Submitted/Under Review, 2009). [with J. Doucette & G. J. Chin]

Distinguishing Retribution and Revenge in Law and Psychology, (Article in Preparation, 2009). [with M. Tanha & N. Vidmar]

Killing as a Response: The Law and Psychology of Reactive Homicide, (Book in Preparation, 2009).

Mistaking reasonable reliance as mistake of law, and other mistakenness, (Article in Preparation, 2009). [with G. J. Chin & M. Gilkey]

An Individual Systems Model of Aggressogenic Personality Factors: The Intersection of Affect and Social Cognition (Article Submitted/Under Review, 2009). [with G. V. Caprara, R. Fida, M. Paciello, & K. A. Dodge]

Individual Differences in Personality Traits and Social Cognitive Mechanisms Conducive to Violence from Adolescence to Adulthood (Article Submitted/Under Review, 2009). [with G. V. Caprara, G. Alessandri, M. Paciello, & M. G. Gerbino]

* Does Response Evaluation and Decision (RED) Mediate the Relation Between Hostile Attributional Style and Antisocial Behavior in Adolescence? (Article Submitted/Under Review, 2009). [First Author, with M. Tanha, C. Yang, K. A. Dodge, J. E. Bates, & G. S. Pettit]

* Social Information Processing and Antisocial Behavior: New Developments in Developmental Research (Article in Preparation, 2009).

* Manuscripts invited by the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology Special Section on Social Cognition and Aggression, dedicated to my Symposium on social information processing and antisocial conduct at the 20^th biennial meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development, Würzburg, Germany, July, 2008.