Kevin M Beaver
Biographic Data
| ID | 134125 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin M Beaver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin M |
| FAMILY NAME | Beaver |
| SIGNATURE | BEAVER K M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3042-3496 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 110 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 642 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 110 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Examining the Overlap Among Career Criminals, Low Self-Control, and Neuropsychological Functioning in a Sample of Adolescent Arrestees
There has been considerable interest in understanding the causes, behavioral patterns, and consequences associated with career criminals. Much of the early research on career criminals was atheoretical, but with the advancement of life-course and developmental research more and more research on career criminals was guided by theoretical explanations. Even so, there remains much that is unknown about whether criminological theories are useful in e…
Juvenile Arrest and Its Association with Future Criminal Involvement: A Propensity Score Matching Analysis
Research has consistently revealed a link between involvement in adolescent delinquency and adult criminal behavior. Even so, there remains much that is unknown about this association, including the potential mechanisms that might explain it. The current study sought to add to this literature by examining the connection between being arrested as a juvenile and future self-reported involvement in adult criminal behavior. To do so, we analyzed data…
Does the Timing and Length of Incarceration Matter for Long-Term Economic and Health Outcomes? Analysis of Male Arrestees Drawn From a Nationally Representative Sample
Research has consistently documented that incarceration is associated with numerous negative outcomes later in life. Much of this research has focused only on adults who were incarcerated and either excluded juveniles or examined them separately. Moreover, findings from the majority of these studies are often based on simple binary measures of incarceration without examining the length of time each person was incarcerated. The current study sough…
Examining the Connection between Having a Tattoo and Victimization During Adolescence and Adulthood: Results from a Sample of Males and Females
There has been a lack of research examining whether having a tattoo is associated with victimization across the life course. The current study addressed this gap by examining whether having a tattoo as an adolescent was associated with victimization during adolescence and adulthood. To do so, males and females from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health were analyzed. The results revealed that having a tattoo was related to…
Parenting, self-control, and delinquent peers: A test of environmental effects on offspring development using a sample of adoptees
Childhood dietary factors are associated with maternal characteristics and sex-specific changes in neuropsychological deficits: A criminological assessment
Examining the Longitudinal Connection Between Adolescent Delinquency and Risky Sexual Behaviors in a Sample of Males and Females
Adolescence is a time period that is highlighted by widespread involvement in delinquent behaviors. The long-term consequences associated with engaging in such behaviors is not entirely understood. There is some research showing, though, that adolescents who are involved in delinquency are at-risk for also engaging in an assortment of risky sexual behaviors. Whether this association is causal or the result of selection/confounding remains unclear…
The Moderating Influence of Poverty on Criminal Justice Processing
There has been a considerable amount of research examining the role that poverty might play in the development of crime and with being processed through the criminal justice system. Despite this research, there still remain some important gaps in the knowledge base, including whether poverty differentially moderates the effects of criminal behavior and criminogenic influences on being processed through the criminal justice system. The current stu…
The Association Between Participating in Sports and Victimization: Results From a Longitudinal Sample of Males
Although youth are often encouraged to participate in organized sports, there is a line of research indicating that adolescent athletes are at-risk for a range of negative outcomes. One area of research that has produced somewhat conflicting evidence, however, focuses on the nexus between adolescent sports participation and victimization. The current study sought to add to the literature on this topic by examining whether involvement in four spor…
Adolescent sports, violent delinquency, and being processed through the criminal justice system: A longitudinal analysis of males
Examining the factors associated with why recurring victimization does and does not occur
Purpose A significant amount of research has been centered on understanding the nature of victimization and why it occurs. One of the key areas of research from this body of literature is on recurring victimization or the tendency for certain persons to be victimized repeatedly over time. Despite the interest on recurring victimization, there still remains much that is unknown about the causes and correlates to it. Using this as a springboard, th…
Factors Associated with Achieving the Desired Level of Education in a Longitudinal and Nationally Representative Sample
There has been a great deal of scholarly interest in trying to uncover the factors that account for variation in educational attainment. Equally important, but not yet fully answered, is why some people aspire for high levels of education and others do not and, moreover, why some people believe that they will reach their educational aspirations and others do not have much optimism. The current study sought to address this gap in the literature by…
Adolescent Delinquency and Adulthood Economic Disadvantage and Job Benefits: Results From a Longitudinal Sample of Males and Females
There is a long history of examining the connection between crime and delinquency and economic well-being and employment quality. Despite this vast literature, there still remains unanswered questions surrounding these associations, including whether the timing of adolescent delinquency is associated with adulthood economic disadvantage and job quality, whether different types of adolescent delinquency maintain differential associations with meas…
Parenting as a Nonshared Environmental Factor: A Sibling Barricade Analysis
Research attempting to uncover sources of nonshared environmental influences on behavioral development has highlighted the importance of differential parenting. One way in which parenting may be conceived of as a nonshared environment but has yet to be fully examined in the literature, is through sibling social comparisons. The current study addresses this gap by conducting a series of sibling barricade models examining whether adolescents are af…
The nurturing of Criminologists: An exercise in futility
Parental socialization and adolescent dating violence victimization
There has been a great deal of research interest on intimate partner violence, but comparatively less research has been focused on adolescent dating victimization. The available research, however, shows that adolescent dating victimization is often a precursor to adulthood intimate partner violence victimization as well as a range of other maladaptive outcomes. The current study sought to examine whether parental socialization was associated with…
Neuropsychological functioning and its association with juvenile arrest and adulthood incarceration: Findings from a longitudinal sample of youth
Long-term mental health, victimization, and behavioral consequences associated with human sex trafficking
Involvement in Crime and Delinquency and the Development of Technological and Computer Skills: A Longitudinal Analysis
A body of research has revealed that involvement in crime and delinquency is associated with a wide number of social, economic, and health consequences. The current study built off this knowledge base and examined whether measures of adolescent violent delinquency and contact with the criminal justice system were related to the access of basic, and experience with, technology, and computers. To do so, longitudinal data drawn from the National Lon…
Examining the Potential Influence of Violence Exposure on the Link Between Callous-Unemotional Traits and Delinquent and Aggressive Behavior in Children and Adolescents
Callous-unemotional traits have been consistently tied to non-violent and violent criminal involvement among adolescents and adults. However, research has yet to fully explore potential underlying mechanisms that explain how and why these associations exist. The current study addresses this gap by analyzing data drawn from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being I (NSCAW I) to examine violence exposure as a potential moderator to t…
Parental criminality as an extralegal biasing factor in being processed through the criminal justice system
Tattoos as a Stigmatizing Label Implicated in Being Processed Through the Criminal Justice System
Understanding extralegal factors that may interfere with the criminal justice system operating in a fair and impartial fashion is a key area of research. Much of this research has focused on how demographic characteristics, such as age, gender, and race, may lead to differentially being processed through the criminal justice system. The current study sought to build upon and extend this body of research by examining whether having a permanent tat…
Unpacking the Association Between Corporal Punishment and Criminal Involvement
A great deal of research has revealed a link between corporal punishment and negative life outcomes, but the underlying mechanisms that explain how and why these associations exist are not well understood. The current study extends this line of research by analyzing a longitudinal sample of high-risk male and female youth drawn from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being. The analyses revealed that the use of corporal punishment w…
Examining the potential association between perceived life expectations and violent behaviors, criminal justice processing, and victimization: A longitudinal analysis
Low Self-Control, Victimization, and Financial Hardship: Does Low Self-Control Moderate the Relationship Between Strain and Criminal Involvement
General strain theory has been widely supported by empirical research. Research concerning possible individual-level moderators of the effects of strain, however, has yielded considerably mixed results. The current study addresses this gap in the literature by examining whether levels of self-control moderate the relationship between strain and criminal involvement in a large nationally representative sample. Our findings reveal that strain and l…
Do Parents Matter in Creating Self‐control in Their Children? A Genetically Informed Test of Gottfredson and Hirschi's Theory of Low Self‐control
Gottfredson and Hirschi's general theory of crime (1990) has generated an abundance of research testing the proposition that low self‐control is the main cause of crime and analogous behaviors. Less empirical work, however, has examined the factors that give rise to low self‐control. Gottfredson and Hirschi suggest that parents are the sole contributors for either fostering or thwarting low self‐control in their children, explicitly discounting t…
The Severe 5: A Latent Class Analysis of the Externalizing Behavior Spectrum in the United States
Genetic influences on the stability of low self-control: Results from a longitudinal sample of twins
Nonshared Environmental Influences on Adolescent Delinquent Involvement and Adult Criminal Behavior
Findings gleaned from behavioral genetic research have revealed that nonshared environments are particularly important sources of behavioral variation. Surprisingly little criminological research has examined directly the effects of the nonshared environment on adolescent delinquent involvement and adult criminal behavior. The current study addressed this gap in the literature by calculating difference scores in a sample of 289 monozygotic (MZ) t…
Prior problem behavior accounts for the racial gap in school suspensions
Demonstrating the Validity of Twin Research in Criminology
In a recent article published in Criminology , Burt and Simons () claimed that the statistical violations of the classical twin design render heritability studies useless. Claiming quantitative genetics is “fatally flawed” and describing the results generated from these models as “preposterous,” Burt and Simons took the unprecedented step to call for abandoning heritability studies and their constituent findings. We show that their call for an “e…
On the consequences of ignoring genetic influences in criminological research
The influence of neuropsychological deficits in early childhood on low self-control and misconduct through early adolescence
Desistance from delinquency: The marriage effect revisited and extended
Examining the Genetic Underpinnings to Moffitt's Developmental Taxonomy: A Behavioral Genetic Analysis
In recent years, criminological research has observed an increase in studies examining different offending trajectories. Much of this research has been guided by Moffitt's (1993) developmental taxonomy of life-course persistent offenders, adolescence-limited offenders, and abstainers. Moffitt (1993) argued that the etiologies of these different pathways could be traced to several biosocial factors, including perhaps genetic factors. To date, rese…
Toward a criminal justice epidemiology: Behavioral and physical health of probationers and parolees in the United States
Genetic and environmental contributions to stability and change in levels of self-control
An empirical examination of adolescence-limited offending: A direct test of Moffitt's maturity gap thesis
Analyzing the origins of childhood externalizing behavioral problems
Drawing on a sample of twin children from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B; Snow et al., 2009), the current study analyzed 2 of the most prominent predictors of externalizing behavioral problems (EBP) in children: (a) parental use of spankings and (b) childhood self-regulation. A variety of statistical techniques were employed, and, overall, the findings can be summarized into 2 points. First, the results show that the…
The etiology of criminal onset: The enduring salience of nature and nurture
Mathematical Proof Is Not Minutiae and Irreducible Complexity Is Not a Theory: A Final Response to Burt and Simons and a Call to Criminologists
Characteristics of abstainers from substance use and antisocial behavior in the United States
Gene—Environment Interplay and Delinquent Involvement: Evidence of Direct, Indirect, and Interactive Effects
Behavioral genetic research has revealed that biogenic factors play a role in the development of antisocial behaviors. Much of this research has also explicated the way in which the environment and genes may combine to create different phenotypes. The authors draw heavily from this literature and use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to examine genetic and environmental effects on adolescent delinquent involvement. Th…
The Relationship Between Self‐control and Language: Evidence of a Shared Etiological Pathway
Converging lines of research suggest that self‐control and language may be inextricably linked. No empirical research has ever examined this proposition, however. We address this gap in the literature by analyzing a sample of twin pairs from a nationally representative data set of children. The results revealed three broad findings. First, diminished language skills were predictive of low self‐control both cross‐sectionally and longitudinally. Se…
Estimating the effect of gang membership on nonviolent and violent delinquency: A counterfactual analysis
This study reconsiders the well‐known link between gang membership and criminal involvement. Recently developed analytical techniques enabled the approximation of an experimental design to determine whether gang members, after being matched with similarly situated nongang members, exhibited greater involvement in nonviolent and violent delinquency. Findings indicated that while gang membership is a function of self‐selection, selection effects al…
The role of broken homes in the development of self-control: A propensity score matching approach
Different Slopes for Different Folks: Genetic Influences on Growth in Delinquent Peer Association and Delinquency During Adolescence
Moving beyond the socialization hypothesis: The effects of maternal smoking during pregnancy on the development of self-control
Marriage and Desistance From Crime: A Consideration of Gene-Environment Correlation
An impressive body of research has examined the effect of marriage on desistance from a criminal career. Although extensive efforts have been made to control for potential confounders, almost no research has considered the role that genetic influences play in the relationship. In this study, the authors revisited the marriage-desistance connection by analyzing sibling data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Healt…
Aging out of adolescent delinquency: Results from a longitudinal sample of youth and young adults
The Practical Guide to Hipaa Privacy and Security Compliance
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Do Parents Matter in Creating Self‐control in Their Children? A Genetically Informed Test of Gottfredson and Hirschi's Theory of Low Self‐control
Gottfredson and Hirschi's general theory of crime (1990) has generated an abundance of research testing the proposition that low self‐control is the main cause of crime and analogous behaviors. Less empirical work, however, has examined the factors that give rise to low self‐control. Gottfredson and Hirschi suggest that parents are the sole contributors for either fostering or thwarting low self‐control in their children, explicitly discounting t…
A Child Effects Explanation for the Association Between Family Risk and Involvement in an Antisocial Lifestyle
Most dominant theories of crime and criminality underscore the saliency of the family in the etiology of offending behaviors. Recently, a small pool of research has suggested that elements of the family, especially parents, do not have a lasting impact on children. This line of inquiry argues that once the effects that the child has on the family are taken into account, the relationship between family factors and child outcomes will be reduced su…
Lombroso's Legacy: The Miseducation of Criminologists
This study examines the extent to which criminal justice and criminology Ph.D. students are exposed to contemporary biological and genetic findings associated with aggression and violence. Drawing on multiple sources of information, we find little evidence showing that Ph.D. students are exposed to any biological research on crime and offending. We examine the consequences for this “trained incompetence” and offer suggestions for remedying this d…
Which Group Are You In?”: A Preliminary Investigation of Group‐Based Publication Trajectories of Criminology and Criminal Justice Scholars
This study employs Nagin and Land's (1993 Nagin, D. S. and Land, K. C. 1993. Age, criminal careers, and population heterogeneity: Specification and estimation of a nonparametric, mixed poisson model. Criminology, 31: 327–362. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]; Criminology, 31, 327–362) group‐based trajectory modeling procedure to examine the scholarly productivity of 204 criminology and criminal justice scholars currently employed…
Psychopathic personality features and risks for criminal justice system involvement among emancipating foster youth
Anabolic-Androgenic Steroid Use and Involvement in Violent Behavior in a Nationally Representative Sample of Young Adult Males in the United States
We examined the effects of anabolic-androgenic steroid use on serious violent behavior. Multivariate models based on data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (N = 6823) were used to examine the association between lifetime and past-year self-reported anabolic-androgenic steroid use and involvement in violent acts. Compared with individuals who did not use steroids, young adult males who used anabolic-androgenic steroids repo…
The effect of school classroom characteristics on low self-control: A multilevel analysis
The etiology of criminal onset: The enduring salience of nature and nurture
Genetic influences on the stability of low self-control: Results from a longitudinal sample of twins
Nonshared Environmental Influences on Adolescent Delinquent Involvement and Adult Criminal Behavior
Findings gleaned from behavioral genetic research have revealed that nonshared environments are particularly important sources of behavioral variation. Surprisingly little criminological research has examined directly the effects of the nonshared environment on adolescent delinquent involvement and adult criminal behavior. The current study addressed this gap in the literature by calculating difference scores in a sample of 289 monozygotic (MZ) t…
The Relationship Between Self‐control and Language: Evidence of a Shared Etiological Pathway
Converging lines of research suggest that self‐control and language may be inextricably linked. No empirical research has ever examined this proposition, however. We address this gap in the literature by analyzing a sample of twin pairs from a nationally representative data set of children. The results revealed three broad findings. First, diminished language skills were predictive of low self‐control both cross‐sectionally and longitudinally. Se…
A gene-based evolutionary explanation for the association between criminal involvement and number of sex partners
Empirical research has revealed a positive relationship between number of sex partners and involvement in antisocial behaviors. Most attempts to explain this association have taken an evolutionary perspective and argued that the same traits (e.g., impulsiveness, shortsightedness, and aggressiveness) that are related to a large number of sex partners are also related to criminal involvement However, there is also reason to believe that the covaria…
Desistance from delinquency: The marriage effect revisited and extended
Nature and Nurture by Definition Means Both: A Response to Males
Recognition of the interplay between nature and nurture is decades old in fields such as psychiatry, but other fields in the social sciences continue to be hampered by the idea that social and biological variables compete for explanatory relevance. In a recent study of the adolescent brain and risk taking, Males critiqued biologically oriented approaches as “biodeterminist” compared to environmentally friendly approaches. Here the authors suggest…
Gene—Environment Interplay and Delinquent Involvement: Evidence of Direct, Indirect, and Interactive Effects
Behavioral genetic research has revealed that biogenic factors play a role in the development of antisocial behaviors. Much of this research has also explicated the way in which the environment and genes may combine to create different phenotypes. The authors draw heavily from this literature and use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to examine genetic and environmental effects on adolescent delinquent involvement. Th…
Interaction of 5HTTLPR and Marijuana Use on Property Offending
This study uses data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to examine whether a polymorphism in the serotonin transporter gene (SHTTLPR) moderates the effects of marijuana use on property offending. The results reveal that 5HTTLPR interacts with marijuana use to predict significantly higher levels of property offending for African American females. The interaction coefficient is not statistically significant for Caucasian male…
A Gene X Environment Interaction Between DRD2 and Religiosity in the Prediction of Adolescent Delinquent Involvement in a Sample of Males
Human behavioral phenotypes are the result of complex interactions between genotype and the environment. Still, much remains unknown about the gene X environmental basis to adolescent delinquent involvement. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we examine whether a polymorphism in the dopamine D2 receptor (DRD2) gene interacts with religiosity to predict variation in adolescent delinquent involvement. The results …
Maternal Cigarette Smoking during Pregnancy and Offspring Externalizing Behavioral Problems: A Propensity Score Matching Analysis
A body of empirical research has revealed that prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke is related to a host of negative outcomes, including reduced cognitive abilities, later-life health problems, and childhood behavioral problems. While these findings are often interpreted as evidence of the causal role that prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke has on human phenotypes, emerging evidence has suggested that the association between prenatal exposure to to…
Teaching Biosocial Criminology I: Understanding Endophenotypes Using Gottfredson and Hirschi’s Self‐Control Construct
Criminology is experiencing a paradigm shift in theory and research that articulates a more interdisciplinary, biosocial mode of inquiry. Unfortunately, however, graduate‐level criminal justice education rarely encompasses biosocial training. The current review is the first in a series of works that seeks to fill this biosocial training void by providing instruction on concepts in the biological sciences and neurosciences that have direct relevan…
The promises and pitfalls of forensic evidence in unsolved crimes
Environmental Moderators of Genetic Influences on Adolescent Delinquent Involvement and Victimization
A growing body of empirical research reveals that genetic factors account for a substantial amount of variance in measures of antisocial behaviors. At the same time, evidence is also emerging indicating that certain environmental factors moderate the effects that genetic factors have on antisocial outcomes. Despite this line of research, much remains unknown about the specific environments that may moderate genetic influences on adolescent delinq…
Estimating the effect of gang membership on nonviolent and violent delinquency: A counterfactual analysis
This study reconsiders the well‐known link between gang membership and criminal involvement. Recently developed analytical techniques enabled the approximation of an experimental design to determine whether gang members, after being matched with similarly situated nongang members, exhibited greater involvement in nonviolent and violent delinquency. Findings indicated that while gang membership is a function of self‐selection, selection effects al…
Behavioral Stability as an Emergent Process: Toward a Coherence Theory of Concentrated Personal Disadvantage
The role of broken homes in the development of self-control: A propensity score matching approach
Psychology (102 works) · Developmental psychology (78 works) · Medicine (64 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (55 works) · Social Psychology (50 works) · Longitudinal study (39 works) · Clinical Psychology (37 works) · Social Psychology (35 works) · Poison control (34 works) · Juvenile delinquency (33 works)