Edward P Mulvey
Biographic Data
| ID | 305067 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward P Mulvey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward P |
| FAMILY NAME | Mulvey |
| SIGNATURE | MULVEY E P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7647-5852 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 473 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Who Will Become Productive Adults? Longitudinal Patterns of Gainful Activities Among Serious Adolescent Offenders
The juvenile justice system is charged with the welfare of the children it serves, yet less is known about the prosocial behaviors of adolescent youthful offenders. This study identifies patterns of prosocial behavior for 7 years among serious adolescent offenders, the correlates of each pattern, and associated patterns of secure placement. Using 7 years of monthly data from the Pathways to Desistance Study ( N = 1,354), we used group-based traje…
What role does serious mental illness play in mass shootings, and how should we address it
Research Summary A popular explanation for mass shootings is that the assailant “must have been mentally ill.” A popular policy solution is exceptionalist—enter more gun‐disqualifying psychiatric records into the background check system to keep guns away from identified people with mental illness. We synthesized research on the connection between mental illness and common violence, gun violence, homicide, and mass violence. We focused on serious …
Mentally Ill Individuals in Jails and Prisons
Both targeted programs and wholesale changes are sorely needed in how individuals with mental illness are processed in the criminal justice system. Mental illness is not as directly related to criminal involvement or violence as is often assumed. Mentally ill individuals are nonetheless disproportionately present in jails and prisons. Efforts to reduce their numbers must take account of the heterogeneity of mental conditions and their changing na…
Risk and Outcomes: Are Adolescents Charged with Sex Offenses Different from Other Adolescent Offenders
Effect of Gun Carrying on Perceptions of Risk Among Adolescent Offenders
Objectives. We observed how perceptions of risks, costs, crime rewards, and violence exposure change as individual gun-carrying behavior changes among high-risk adolescents. Methods. We analyzed a longitudinal study (2000–2010) of serious juvenile offenders in Maricopa County, Arizona, or Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, assessing within-person changes in risk and reward perceptions, and violence exposure as individuals initiated or ceased gun …
An examination of change in dynamic risk of offending over time among serious juvenile offenders
Differentiating Serious Adolescent Offenders Who Exit the Justice System From Those Who Do Not
Numerous factors have been posited to promote desistance from criminal offending in late adolescence and early adulthood. Research in this area has generally examined these factors for their impact on offending for a period shortly after the occurrence or shifts in possible predictors. The current study takes a slightly different approach. It examines the broad relation of life changes and developmental patterns to wholesale shifts in offending b…
Sequential Intercept Model and Criminal Justice: Promoting Community Alternatives for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness
The challenge and opportunity of parental involvement in juvenile justice services
Understanding the School Outcomes of Juvenile Offenders: An Exploration of Neighborhood Influences and Motivational Resources
Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Emotion Dysregulation Measure
Individuals suffering from personality disorders, particularly borderline personality disorder, often evidence substantial problems in regulating and managing their emotions. The development of psychometrically sound measures that can be used in routine clinical settings to assess difficulties with emotional regulation is urgently needed. The newly developed brief General Emotion Dysregulation Measure (GEDM) has shown good reliability and validit…
Trajectories of antisocial behavior and psychosocial maturity from adolescence to young adulthood
Most theorizing about desistance from antisocial behavior in late adolescence has emphasized the importance of individuals' transition into adult roles. In contrast, little research has examined how psychological development in late adolescence and early adulthood contributes desistance. The present study examined trajectories of antisocial behavior among serious juvenile offenders from 14 through 22 years of age and tested how impulse control, s…
Estimating a Dose‐response Relationship Between Length of Stay and Future Recidivism in Serious Juvenile Offenders
The effect of sanctions on subsequent criminal activity is of central theoretical importance in criminology. A key question for juvenile justice policy is the degree to which serious juvenile offenders respond to sanctions and/or treatment administered by the juvenile court. The policy question germane to this debate is finding the level of confinement within the juvenile justice system that maximizes the public safety and therapeutic benefits of…
Service use after court involvement in a sample of serious adolescent offenders
Theory and Research on Desistance from Antisocial Activity among Serious Adolescent Offenders
Improving juvenile court decision making requires information about how serious adolescent offenders desist from antisocial activity. A systematic research agenda on this topic requires consideration of several processes, including normative development in late adolescence, what constitutes desistance, and the factors likely to promote the end of involvement in antisocial behavior and successful adjustment in early adulthood. This article present…
Operational Lessons from the Pathways to Desistance Project
Implementing a large, longitudinal study of any sample is a major undertaking. The challenges are compounded when the study involves multiple sites and a high-risk sample. This article outlines the methodology for the Pathways to Desistance study, a multisite, longitudinal study of serious juvenile offenders, and discusses the key operational decisions with the greatest impact on the study design
Initial Development of a Measure of Emotional Dysregulation for Individuals With Cluster B Personality Disorders
Individuals with DSM-IV Cluster B personality disorders are at particular risk of violence toward self or others. Emotional dysregulation is likely to be a factor in such incidents and is a central issue addressed in therapies with personality-disordered individuals. This article reports findings from a study that developed an original 18-item measure of emotional dysregulation and administered the scale to 100 participants diagnosed with Cluster…
Neighborhood structural characteristics and mental disorder: Faris and Dunham revisited
Rethinking Risk Assessment: The MacArthur Study of Mental Disorder and Violence
The presumed link between mental disorder and violence has been the driving force behind mental health law and policy for centuries. Legislatures, courts, and the public have come to expect that mental health professionals will protect them from violent acts by persons with mental disorders. Yet for three decades research has shown that clinicians’ unaided assessments of “dangerousness” are barely better than chance. Rethinking Risk Assessment: T…
The inherent limits of predicting school violence
The recent media hype over school shootings has led to demands for methods of identifying school shooters before they act. Despite the fact that schools remain one of the safest places for youths to be, schools are beginning to adopt identification systems to determine which students could be future killers. The methods used to accomplish this not only are unproven but are inherently limited in usefulness and often do more harm than good for both…
Assessing the Impact of Exposure Time and Incapacitation on Longitudinal Trajectories of Criminal Offending
The authors examine the potential effect of accounting for exposure time by examining the arrests of 272 serious offenders who were paroled at age 18 and followed through age 33. The authors describe the overall change in the arrest rate over the 16-year period, with and without adjustments for exposure time. The authors also estimate latent class models that decompose the heterogeneity of arrest rate trends, with and without variation in exposur…
On the Development of Different Kinds of Criminal Activity
Research has established that individuals who participate in one form of antisocial behavior are at relatively high risk of participating in other forms of antisocial behavior as well. In this article, the authors rely on recent methodological advances to study the longitudinal development of two different forms of antisocial behavior: serious violent offenses and other offenses. The results of their analysis of two Philadelphia birth cohorts sug…
A classification tree approach to the development of actuarial violence risk assessment tools
Since the 1970s, a wide body of research has suggested that the accuracy of clinical risk assessments of violence might be increased if clinicians used actuarial tools. Despite considerable progress in recent years in the development of such tools for violence risk assessment, they remain primarily research instruments, largely ignored in daily clinical practice. We argue that because most existing actuarial tools are based on a main effects regr…
The 1998 Society for Community Research and Action Award for Distinguished Contribution to Theory and Research in Community Psychology: N. Dickon Reppucci
Violence by People Discharged From Acute Psychiatric Inpatient Facilities and by Others in the Same Neighborhoods
BACKGROUND: The public perception that mental disorder is strongly associated with violence drives both legal policy (eg, civil commitment) and social practice (eg, stigma) toward people with mental disorders. This study describes and characterizes the prevalence of community violence in a sample of people discharged from acute psychiatric facilities at 3 sites. At one site, a comparison group of other residents in the same neighborhoods was also…
Regression analyses of counts and rates: Poisson, overdispersed Poisson, and negative binomial models
The regression models appropriate for counted data have seen little use in psychology. This article describes problems that occur when ordinary linear regression is used to analyze count data and presents 3 alternative regression models. The simplest, the Poisson regression model, is likely to be misleading unless restrictive assumptions are met because individual counts are usually more variable ("overdispersed") than is implied by the model. Th…
Neighborhood structural characteristics and mental disorder: Faris and Dunham revisited
Trajectories of antisocial behavior and psychosocial maturity from adolescence to young adulthood
Most theorizing about desistance from antisocial behavior in late adolescence has emphasized the importance of individuals' transition into adult roles. In contrast, little research has examined how psychological development in late adolescence and early adulthood contributes desistance. The present study examined trajectories of antisocial behavior among serious juvenile offenders from 14 through 22 years of age and tested how impulse control, s…
Assessing the Impact of Exposure Time and Incapacitation on Longitudinal Trajectories of Criminal Offending
The authors examine the potential effect of accounting for exposure time by examining the arrests of 272 serious offenders who were paroled at age 18 and followed through age 33. The authors describe the overall change in the arrest rate over the 16-year period, with and without adjustments for exposure time. The authors also estimate latent class models that decompose the heterogeneity of arrest rate trends, with and without variation in exposur…
Estimating a Dose‐response Relationship Between Length of Stay and Future Recidivism in Serious Juvenile Offenders
The effect of sanctions on subsequent criminal activity is of central theoretical importance in criminology. A key question for juvenile justice policy is the degree to which serious juvenile offenders respond to sanctions and/or treatment administered by the juvenile court. The policy question germane to this debate is finding the level of confinement within the juvenile justice system that maximizes the public safety and therapeutic benefits of…
Service use after court involvement in a sample of serious adolescent offenders
On the Development of Different Kinds of Criminal Activity
Research has established that individuals who participate in one form of antisocial behavior are at relatively high risk of participating in other forms of antisocial behavior as well. In this article, the authors rely on recent methodological advances to study the longitudinal development of two different forms of antisocial behavior: serious violent offenses and other offenses. The results of their analysis of two Philadelphia birth cohorts sug…
An examination of change in dynamic risk of offending over time among serious juvenile offenders
The challenge and opportunity of parental involvement in juvenile justice services
The paradoxical effect of a juvenile code change in Virginia
The impact of a new state juvenile code on the processing of youth through one court locale was examined using an interrupted time‐series design. The intent of the new code was to limit penetration of youth into the juvenile justice system. This locale, however, showed an increased number of youth going through to court despite no increase in the number of youth arrested. The importance of this paradoxical effect for local juvenile justice planne…
What role does serious mental illness play in mass shootings, and how should we address it
Research Summary A popular explanation for mass shootings is that the assailant “must have been mentally ill.” A popular policy solution is exceptionalist—enter more gun‐disqualifying psychiatric records into the background check system to keep guns away from identified people with mental illness. We synthesized research on the connection between mental illness and common violence, gun violence, homicide, and mass violence. We focused on serious …
Effect of Gun Carrying on Perceptions of Risk Among Adolescent Offenders
Objectives. We observed how perceptions of risks, costs, crime rewards, and violence exposure change as individual gun-carrying behavior changes among high-risk adolescents. Methods. We analyzed a longitudinal study (2000–2010) of serious juvenile offenders in Maricopa County, Arizona, or Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, assessing within-person changes in risk and reward perceptions, and violence exposure as individuals initiated or ceased gun …
Differentiating Serious Adolescent Offenders Who Exit the Justice System From Those Who Do Not
Numerous factors have been posited to promote desistance from criminal offending in late adolescence and early adulthood. Research in this area has generally examined these factors for their impact on offending for a period shortly after the occurrence or shifts in possible predictors. The current study takes a slightly different approach. It examines the broad relation of life changes and developmental patterns to wholesale shifts in offending b…
Understanding the School Outcomes of Juvenile Offenders: An Exploration of Neighborhood Influences and Motivational Resources
Initial Development of a Measure of Emotional Dysregulation for Individuals With Cluster B Personality Disorders
Individuals with DSM-IV Cluster B personality disorders are at particular risk of violence toward self or others. Emotional dysregulation is likely to be a factor in such incidents and is a central issue addressed in therapies with personality-disordered individuals. This article reports findings from a study that developed an original 18-item measure of emotional dysregulation and administered the scale to 100 participants diagnosed with Cluster…
The context of clinical judgment: The effect of resource availability on judgments of amenability to treatment in juvenile offenders
Conclusion The present study demonstrates that the contextual factors of resource availability and agency setting may have a significant, systematic relationship to assessments of potential treatment outcome. The value of this finding is not to debunk the idea of the objective clinician one more time but, instead, to provide leads regarding the possible factors worth further investigation in constructing models of clinical judgment. We are aware …
Mentally Ill Individuals in Jails and Prisons
Both targeted programs and wholesale changes are sorely needed in how individuals with mental illness are processed in the criminal justice system. Mental illness is not as directly related to criminal involvement or violence as is often assumed. Mentally ill individuals are nonetheless disproportionately present in jails and prisons. Efforts to reduce their numbers must take account of the heterogeneity of mental conditions and their changing na…
Family violence reported in a psychiatric emergency room
Police crisis intervention training: An empirical
Organizational control and treatment program design as dimensions of institutionalization in settings for juvenile offenders
The relationship between organizational control and normalization in treatment program design was examined in 30 community-based settings for juvenile offenders. Although these two dimensions were hypothesized to be converging indicators of the institutionality of a setting, the findings indicated that they are only marginally related. More hierarchical models of decision making were not associated with more depersonalized, isolating programming,…
Police crisis intervention training: An empirical
The paradoxical effect of a juvenile code change in Virginia
The impact of a new state juvenile code on the processing of youth through one court locale was examined using an interrupted time-series design. The intent of the new code was to limit penetration of youth into the juvenile justice system. This locale, however, showed an increased number of youth going through to court despite no increase in the number of youth arrested. The importance of this paradoxical effect for local juvenile justice planne…
The paradoxical effect of a juvenile code change in Virginia
The impact of a new state juvenile code on the processing of youth through one court locale was examined using an interrupted time‐series design. The intent of the new code was to limit penetration of youth into the juvenile justice system. This locale, however, showed an increased number of youth going through to court despite no increase in the number of youth arrested. The importance of this paradoxical effect for local juvenile justice planne…
Delinquency cessation and adolescent development: Preliminary data
Recent research on juvenile criminal careers has documented a consistent drop in the prevalence of delinquent activity during late adolescence, but there are only a few limited investigations of the processes underlying this occurrence. The present report of retrospective interviews with a sample of recently "reformed" 15-20-year-old white males suggests directions for larger-scale and more rigorous research
The promise and peril of involuntary outpatient commitment
The promise and peril of involuntary outpatient commitment
Organizational control and treatment program design as dimensions of institutionalization in settings for juvenile offenders
The relationship between organizational control and normalization in treatment program design was examined in 30 community-based settings for juvenile offenders. Although these two dimensions were hypothesized to be converging indicators of the institutionality of a setting, the findings indicated that they are only marginally related. More hierarchical models of decision making were not associated with more depersonalized, isolating programming,…
Ethical balances in juvenile justice research and practice
Ethical balances in juvenile justice research and practice
The context of clinical judgment: The effect of resource availability on judgments of amenability to treatment in juvenile offenders
Conclusion The present study demonstrates that the contextual factors of resource availability and agency setting may have a significant, systematic relationship to assessments of potential treatment outcome. The value of this finding is not to debunk the idea of the objective clinician one more time but, instead, to provide leads regarding the possible factors worth further investigation in constructing models of clinical judgment. We are aware …
Family violence reported in a psychiatric emergency room
Violent juvenile delinquents: Treatment effectiveness and implications for future action
Violent juvenile delinquents: Treatment effectiveness and implications for future action
Traditionally, the juvenile justice system has emphasized the goals of treatment and rehabilitation of young offenders, while protecting them from punishment, retribution, and stigmatization. Violent juvenile offenders have posed a challenge to this rehabilitative ideal because of mounting public pressure to ensure societal protection. Juveniles who are perceived as dangerous or persistent in their criminal activity are increasingly transferred t…
Regression analyses of counts and rates: Poisson, overdispersed Poisson, and negative binomial models
The regression models appropriate for counted data have seen little use in psychology. This article describes problems that occur when ordinary linear regression is used to analyze count data and presents 3 alternative regression models. The simplest, the Poisson regression model, is likely to be misleading unless restrictive assumptions are met because individual counts are usually more variable ("overdispersed") than is implied by the model. Th…
Violence by People Discharged From Acute Psychiatric Inpatient Facilities and by Others in the Same Neighborhoods
BACKGROUND: The public perception that mental disorder is strongly associated with violence drives both legal policy (eg, civil commitment) and social practice (eg, stigma) toward people with mental disorders. This study describes and characterizes the prevalence of community violence in a sample of people discharged from acute psychiatric facilities at 3 sites. At one site, a comparison group of other residents in the same neighborhoods was also…
The 1998 Society for Community Research and Action Award for Distinguished Contribution to Theory and Research in Community Psychology: N. Dickon Reppucci
A classification tree approach to the development of actuarial violence risk assessment tools
Since the 1970s, a wide body of research has suggested that the accuracy of clinical risk assessments of violence might be increased if clinicians used actuarial tools. Despite considerable progress in recent years in the development of such tools for violence risk assessment, they remain primarily research instruments, largely ignored in daily clinical practice. We argue that because most existing actuarial tools are based on a main effects regr…
Rethinking Risk Assessment: The MacArthur Study of Mental Disorder and Violence
The presumed link between mental disorder and violence has been the driving force behind mental health law and policy for centuries. Legislatures, courts, and the public have come to expect that mental health professionals will protect them from violent acts by persons with mental disorders. Yet for three decades research has shown that clinicians’ unaided assessments of “dangerousness” are barely better than chance. Rethinking Risk Assessment: T…
The inherent limits of predicting school violence
The recent media hype over school shootings has led to demands for methods of identifying school shooters before they act. Despite the fact that schools remain one of the safest places for youths to be, schools are beginning to adopt identification systems to determine which students could be future killers. The methods used to accomplish this not only are unproven but are inherently limited in usefulness and often do more harm than good for both…
Assessing the Impact of Exposure Time and Incapacitation on Longitudinal Trajectories of Criminal Offending
The authors examine the potential effect of accounting for exposure time by examining the arrests of 272 serious offenders who were paroled at age 18 and followed through age 33. The authors describe the overall change in the arrest rate over the 16-year period, with and without adjustments for exposure time. The authors also estimate latent class models that decompose the heterogeneity of arrest rate trends, with and without variation in exposur…
On the Development of Different Kinds of Criminal Activity
Research has established that individuals who participate in one form of antisocial behavior are at relatively high risk of participating in other forms of antisocial behavior as well. In this article, the authors rely on recent methodological advances to study the longitudinal development of two different forms of antisocial behavior: serious violent offenses and other offenses. The results of their analysis of two Philadelphia birth cohorts sug…
Neighborhood structural characteristics and mental disorder: Faris and Dunham revisited
Theory and Research on Desistance from Antisocial Activity among Serious Adolescent Offenders
Improving juvenile court decision making requires information about how serious adolescent offenders desist from antisocial activity. A systematic research agenda on this topic requires consideration of several processes, including normative development in late adolescence, what constitutes desistance, and the factors likely to promote the end of involvement in antisocial behavior and successful adjustment in early adulthood. This article present…
Operational Lessons from the Pathways to Desistance Project
Implementing a large, longitudinal study of any sample is a major undertaking. The challenges are compounded when the study involves multiple sites and a high-risk sample. This article outlines the methodology for the Pathways to Desistance study, a multisite, longitudinal study of serious juvenile offenders, and discusses the key operational decisions with the greatest impact on the study design
Initial Development of a Measure of Emotional Dysregulation for Individuals With Cluster B Personality Disorders
Individuals with DSM-IV Cluster B personality disorders are at particular risk of violence toward self or others. Emotional dysregulation is likely to be a factor in such incidents and is a central issue addressed in therapies with personality-disordered individuals. This article reports findings from a study that developed an original 18-item measure of emotional dysregulation and administered the scale to 100 participants diagnosed with Cluster…
Psychology (38 works) · Criminology (18 works) · Medicine (18 works) · Psychiatry (17 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (15 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (14 works) · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending (14 works) · Developmental psychology (13 works) · Juvenile delinquency (13 works) · Political science (13 works)