Rick Nevin

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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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  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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