Environmental causes of violence

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 260-268

  Carpenter, David O ^a   Nevin, Rick ^a,b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b National Center for Healthy Housing   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrests; Arsenic; Lead; Methyl mercury; PCBs; Perinatal exposure; SHS

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; GASOLINE; LEAD; METHYLMERCURY; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONDUCT DISORDER; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MORTALITY; PASSIVE SMOKING; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL ASPECT; URBAN AREA; VIOLENCE;

ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; VIOLENCE;

EID: 72649090413     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2009.09.001     Document Type: Article

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