Rick Nevin

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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References

  1. ^ "Riehl World View: Lead Poisoning And Crime".
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Vedantam, Shankar (July 8, 2007). "Research Links Lead Exposure, Criminal Activity". Washington Post. Retrieved 2007-07-13.
  5. ^ Drum, Kevin (January 2013). "Lead: America's Real Criminal Element". Mother Jones. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ Monbiot, George (7 January 2013). "Yes, lead poisoning could really be a cause of violent crime". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ Regoli, Robert; Hewitt, John; DeLisi, Matt (2011). Delinquency in Society. Jones & Bartlett Learning. p. 89. ISBN 9780763777906. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  11. ^ Siegel, Larry (February 2016). Criminology: The Core. Cengage Learning. p. 131. ISBN 9781305887336. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
  12. ^ Vito, Gennaro; Maahs, Jeffrey; Holmes, Ronald (2006). Criminology: Theory, Research, and Policy. Jones and Bartlett. p. 482. ISBN 9780763730017.
  13. ^ Nielsen, Carrie (2021). Unleaded: How Changing Our Gasoline Changed Everything. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9781978821026. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
  14. ^ Brinkmann, Robert (2020). Introduction to Sustainability (Second ed.). Wiley Blackwell. ISBN 9781119675495. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  15. ^ Woodford, Chris (2021). Breathless: Why Air Pollution Matters and How it Affects You. London: Icon. p. 129. ISBN 9781785787102.


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