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Elizabeth Cauffman

UCI School of Social Ecology

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*Asterisks denote publications with current or former graduate students, or postdoctoral scholars. 

Cauffman, E., *Fine, A., *Thomas, A. & *Monahan, K.  (in press).  Trajectories of violent behavior among females and males.  Child Development.

*Fine, A., *Cavanagh, C., *Donley, S., Frick, P., Steimberg, L. & Cauffman, E.  (in press).  The role of peer arrests on the development of youths’ attitudes towards the justice system.  Law & Human Behavior.

Cauffman, E., *Shulman, E. P, *Bechtold, J., & Steinberg, L. (in press). Children, adolescents, and the law. In M. Bornstein, T. Leventhal, & R. Lerner (Eds.), Handbook of child psychology and developmental science (7th ed., Vol. 4). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

*Cavanagh, C. & Cauffman, E.  (in press).  Viewing law and order: Mothers’ and sons’ justice system legitimacy attitudes and juvenile recidivism.  Psychology, Public Policy, and Law.

Cauffman, E., *Cavanagh, C., *Donley, S., & *Thomas, A.  (in press).  A developmental perspective on adolescent risk-taking and criminal behavior.  Handbook of Criminological Theory.  (Authors are listed alphabetically as all authors contributed equally.)

Cauffman, E., *Monahan, K., & *Thomas, A.  (2015).  Pathways to persistence:  Female offending from 14 to 25. Journal of Developmental and Life Course Criminology, 1, 236-268.

*Monahan, K., VanDerhei, S., *Bechtold, J., & Cauffman, E.  (2014).  From the school yard to the squad car: School discipline, truancy, and arrest.  Journal of Youth & Adolescence, 43, 1110-1122.

*Thomas, A. & Cauffman, E.  (2014).  Youth sexting as child pornography:  Developmental science supports less harsh sanctions for juvenile sexters.  New Criminal Law Review, 17, 631-651.

*Goldweber, A., Cauffman, E., & Cillessen, T.  (2014).  Peer status among incarcerated female offenders:  Associations with social behavior and adjustment.  Journal of Research on Adolescence, 24, 720-733.

*Malloy, L., *Shulman, E., & Cauffman, E.  (2014).  Interrogations, confessions, and guilty pleas among serious adolescent offenders.  Law & Human Behavior, 38, 181-193.

*Bechtold, J. & Cauffman, E.  (2014).  Tried as an adult, housed as a juvenile: A tale of youth from two courts incarcerated together.  Law & Human Behavior, 38, 126-138.

*Shulman, E. & Cauffman, E.  (2014).  Deciding in the dark:  Age differences in intuitive risk judgment. Developmental Psychology, 50, 167-177.

*Kaasa, S., Cauffman, E., Clarke-Stewart, A., & Loftus, E.  (2013).  False accusations in an investigative context:  Differences between suggestible and non-suggestible witnesses.  Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 31, 574-592.

Cauffman, E.  (2012).  Aligning justice system processing with developmental science.  Criminology & Public Policy, 11, 751-758.

*Dmitrieva, J., *Monahan, K., Cauffman, E., & Steinberg, L.  (2012).  Arrested development: The effects of incarceration on adolescents’ development of psychosocial maturity.  Development & Psychopathology, 24, 1073-1090.

Cauffman, E. & Steinberg, L.  (2012).  Emerging findings from adolescent development and juvenile justice.  Victims & Offenders, 7, 428-449.

Cauffman, E., *Shulman, E., Steinberg, L., Claus, E., Banich, M., Woolard, J., & Graham, S.  (2010).  Age differences in sensitivity to the rewards and costs of a risky decision as indexed by performance on the Iowa gambling task.  Developmental Psychology, 46, 193-207.

Cauffman, E., *Kimonis, E., *Dmitrieva, J., *Monahan, K. (2009). A multi-method assessment of juvenile psychopathy: Comparing the predictive utility of the PCL:YV, YPI, and NEO-PRI. Psychological Assessment, 21, 528-542.

*Monahan, K., Steinberg, L., Cauffman, E., & Mulvey, E.  (2009).  Trajectories of antisocial behavior and psychosocial maturity from adolescence to young adulthood.  Developmental Psychology, 45, 1654-1668.

Steinberg, L., Albert, D., Cauffman, E., Banich, M., Graham, S., & Woolard, J.  (2008).  Age differences in sensation seeking and impulsivity as indexed by behavior and self-report: Evidence for a dual systems model.  Developmental Psychology, 44, 1764-1778.

Cauffman, E.  (2008).  Understanding the female offender.  Future of Children, 18, 119-142.

 

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Elizabeth Cauffman

Elizabeth Cauffman

Psychological Science
School of Social Ecology
University of California Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697
cauffman@uci.edu
(949) 824-4075

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