Rate My Professor Paul Boxer

Affiliated faculty in the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice and School of Social Work, Boxer contributes to the Center on Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice. In 2020, he received a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention grant as a lead investigator to study links between violence exposure and weapons use among youth. Key publications include "Long-term effects of parents' education on children's educational and occupational success: Mediation by family interactions, child aggression, and teenage aspirations" (2009); "Continuity of aggression from childhood to early adulthood as a predictor of life outcomes: Implications for the adolescent-limited and life-course-persistent models" (2009); "Exposure to violence across the social ecosystem and the development of aggression: A test of ecological theory in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict" (2013); "Aggression in very high-risk youth: Examining developmental risk in an inpatient psychiatric population" (2007); "Negative peer involvement in Multisystemic Therapy for the treatment of youth problem behavior" (2011); "Gang involvement moderates the effectiveness of evidence-based intervention for justice-involved youth" (2015); and "Effectiveness of Multisystemic Therapy for gang-involved youth offenders: One year follow-up analysis of recidivism outcomes" (2017). Boxer's work informs prevention efforts and juvenile justice policies.