Rick Nevin is an economic consultant who acts as an adviser to the National Center for Healthy Housing and has worked on the Federal Strategy to eliminate childhood lead poisoning.[1] Amongst other research, he has published papers in the journal Environmental Research claiming to demonstrate a link between environmental lead exposure and violent crime in the United States[2] and in nine countries worldwide.[3] This research has been publicized in the press by a Washington Post article in July 2007,[4] by Mother Jones in 2013,[5] and elsewhere, including the UK's Independent in October 2007[6] and Guardian in 2013.[7] Nevin's work on lead pollution has also featured in numerous books about public health,[8] social sciences and social justice,[9][10] criminology,[11][12] environmentalism and sustainability,[13][14] and air pollution.[15]
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edit- ^ "Riehl World View: Lead Poisoning And Crime".
- ^ Nevin, Rick (May 2000). "How Lead Exposure Relates to Temporal Changes in IQ, Violent Crime, and Unwed Pregnancy" (PDF). Environmental Research. 83 (1): 1–22. Bibcode:2000ER.....83....1N. doi:10.1006/enrs.1999.4045. PMID 10845777. S2CID 18983793.
- ^ Nevin, Rick (July 2007). "Understanding international crime trends: The legacy of preschool lead exposure" (PDF). Environmental Research. 104 (3): 315–336. Bibcode:2007ER....104..315N. doi:10.1016/j.envres.2007.02.008. PMID 17451672.
- ^ Vedantam, Shankar (July 8, 2007). "Research Links Lead Exposure, Criminal Activity". Washington Post. Retrieved 2007-07-13.
- ^ Drum, Kevin (January 2013). "Lead: America's Real Criminal Element". Mother Jones. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
- ^ Lean, Geoffrey (October 28, 2007). "Ban on leaded petrol 'has cut crime rates around the world'". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on October 29, 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-01.
- ^ Monbiot, George (7 January 2013). "Yes, lead poisoning could really be a cause of violent crime". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
- ^ Markowitz, Gerald; Rosner, David (2014). Lead Wars The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children. University of California Press. p. 221. ISBN 9780520283930. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
- ^ Karaali, Gizem; Khadjavi, Lily S. (2021). Mathematics for Social Justice Focusing on Quantitative Reasoning and Statistics. American Mathematical Society. p. 126. ISBN 9781470449278. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
- ^ Regoli, Robert; Hewitt, John; DeLisi, Matt (2011). Delinquency in Society. Jones & Bartlett Learning. p. 89. ISBN 9780763777906. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
- ^ Siegel, Larry (February 2016). Criminology: The Core. Cengage Learning. p. 131. ISBN 9781305887336. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
- ^ Vito, Gennaro; Maahs, Jeffrey; Holmes, Ronald (2006). Criminology: Theory, Research, and Policy. Jones and Bartlett. p. 482. ISBN 9780763730017.
- ^ Nielsen, Carrie (2021). Unleaded: How Changing Our Gasoline Changed Everything. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9781978821026. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
- ^ Brinkmann, Robert (2020). Introduction to Sustainability (Second ed.). Wiley Blackwell. ISBN 9781119675495. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
- ^ Woodford, Chris (2021). Breathless: Why Air Pollution Matters and How it Affects You. London: Icon. p. 129. ISBN 9781785787102.
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