Dr. Cavanagh's latest article, Intimate Partner Violence Among Indigenous Youth: Cultural Connectedness, Social Support, and the Victim-Offender Overlap, is out now in the Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma. This paper was led by recent ADJust Lab graduate Dr. Alyssa LaBerge, with fellow MSU alums Dr. Makayla Burden and Dr. Ariel Roddy! Indigenous youth face high rates of intimate partner violence (IPV) in the context of ongoing colonial harm. But, youth do not alwa

Dr. Cavanagh's latest article, Integrating developmental and antiracist perspectives into juvenile legal system research, is out now in Developmental Review. We frame the U.S. legal system as a pervasive developmental context shaping youth development and show how legal involvement reshapes development across families, schools, and neighborhoods. We also define "developmental mismatch" as misalignment between adolescents’ needs and legal environments, and identify research an

Dr. Cavanagh's latest article, Adolescent Development, Youth Violence, and Policy Options for a Developmentally Informed Legal System, is out now in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Youth violence cannot be understood apart from adolescent development and environmental conditions. Developmental science suggests punitive legal responses often overestimate youths’ long-term risk while failing to address the conditions associated with violence. We review t

Doctoral student Jordan Parker has received a series of well-earned honors and fellowships this semester. He was inducted into the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, awarded the King-Chavez-Parks Future Faculty Fellowship, and most recently selected as a recipient of the ASC Ruth D. Peterson Fellowship. Together, these recognitions highlight the strength of Jordan’s scholarship on community responses to violence. Just as importantly, they speak to his leadership, service, and co

Learn more about Dr. Cavanagh's history of service in the American Psychology-Law Society (APA Divion 41) here: https://www.apa.org/about/division/digest/leader-resources/caitlin-cavanagh

Dr. Cavanagh's latest article, A Developmental Psychological Perspective on Youth Trust is out now in Discover Psychology. This review examines how adolescent developmental processes influence youth trust, as distinct from, and as an antecedent of, adult trust. Due to normative processes of brain maturation, youth process social information differently than adults. The behaviors and attitudes established during adolescence have lasting impacts on adulthood, such that underst

Dr. Cavanagh wrote an op-ed about a new law in Detroit aimed to curb youth violence. But might it have unintended negative consequences? And what approaches might be more effective? Learn more here: https://theconversation.com/detroit-parents-face-fines-if-their-children-break-curfew-research-shows-the-policy-could-do-more-harm-than-good-264175

Dr. Cavanagh's latest article, Beyond Reoffending and Rearrest: Expanding the Collateral Consequences of Formal Processing to Youth...

Dr. Cavanagh's latest article, A Specialty Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking Court: Risks and Needs Reduction and the Youth Level of...

Congratulations are in order for two undergraduate research assistants whose independent research projects were awarded a Provost's...

Dr. Cavanagh's latest article, Youth Perceptions of Juvenile Justice Facility Staff: Associations With Self-Directed Violence Among...

Dr. Cavanagh's latest article, Attitudes Toward Police and Judges of Latina Immigrants With a Justice-Involved Child: Do Documentation...

Dr. Cavanagh's latest article, Understanding the lived experiences of youth incarcerated in adult facilities through their letters: A...

Congratulations are in order for two undergraduate research assistants whose independent research projects were awarded a Provost's...

Dr. Cavanagh's latest article, Parental Legal Culpability in Youth Offending, is out now in the Annual Review of Criminology. Did you...

Congratulations to Amanda, who received the MSU Council of Graduate Students (COGS) Professional Development grant! Amanda, who is...