My University homepage is http://www.u.arizona.edu/~rgf2/ and SSRN page is http://ssrn.com/author=924700. My scholarly interests have to do with understanding social cognitive foundations of empirical issues in criminal jurisprudence and law. Namely, I study how individual differences in human social-cognitive functioning and capacity may contribute to a more justly defined model of personal responsibility and criminal culpability.
Criminal Law and Procedure
Adequate (Non)Provocation and Heat of Passion as Excuse not Justification, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform (2009)
For a number of reasons, including the complicated psychological nature of reactive homicide, the heat...
An Attack on Self-Defense, American Criminal Law Review (2009)
Debate about the distinction between justification and excuse in criminal law theory has been lively...
On the Boundaries of Culture as an Affirmative Defense (with Eliot M. Held), Arizona Law Review (2009)
A “cultural defense” to criminal culpability cannot achieve true pluralism without collapsing into a totally...
Reactive Cognition, Reactive Emotion: Toward a More Psychologically-Informed Understanding of Reactive Homicide, Psychology, Public Policy, and Law (2008)
Recent scholarship has drawn attention to the alternative contributions of dysfunctional reactive cognition (e.g., provocation...
Social information processing, subtypes of violence, and a progressive construction of culpability and punishment in juvenile justice, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry (2008)
Consistent with core principles of liberal theories of punishment (including humane treatment of offenders, respecting...
Jurisprudence
Adequate (Non)Provocation and Heat of Passion as Excuse not Justification, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform (2009)
For a number of reasons, including the complicated psychological nature of reactive homicide, the heat...
An Attack on Self-Defense, American Criminal Law Review (2009)
Debate about the distinction between justification and excuse in criminal law theory has been lively...
On the Boundaries of Culture as an Affirmative Defense (with Eliot M. Held), Arizona Law Review (2009)
A “cultural defense” to criminal culpability cannot achieve true pluralism without collapsing into a totally...
Reactive Cognition, Reactive Emotion: Toward a More Psychologically-Informed Understanding of Reactive Homicide, Psychology, Public Policy, and Law (2008)
Recent scholarship has drawn attention to the alternative contributions of dysfunctional reactive cognition (e.g., provocation...
Social information processing, subtypes of violence, and a progressive construction of culpability and punishment in juvenile justice, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry (2008)
Consistent with core principles of liberal theories of punishment (including humane treatment of offenders, respecting...
Law and Society
Adequate (Non)Provocation and Heat of Passion as Excuse not Justification, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform (2009)
For a number of reasons, including the complicated psychological nature of reactive homicide, the heat...
An Attack on Self-Defense, American Criminal Law Review (2009)
Debate about the distinction between justification and excuse in criminal law theory has been lively...
On the Boundaries of Culture as an Affirmative Defense (with Eliot M. Held), Arizona Law Review (2009)
A “cultural defense” to criminal culpability cannot achieve true pluralism without collapsing into a totally...
Reactive Cognition, Reactive Emotion: Toward a More Psychologically-Informed Understanding of Reactive Homicide, Psychology, Public Policy, and Law (2008)
Recent scholarship has drawn attention to the alternative contributions of dysfunctional reactive cognition (e.g., provocation...
Social information processing, subtypes of violence, and a progressive construction of culpability and punishment in juvenile justice, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry (2008)
Consistent with core principles of liberal theories of punishment (including humane treatment of offenders, respecting...
Psychology and Psychiatry
Adequate (Non)Provocation and Heat of Passion as Excuse not Justification, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform (2009)
For a number of reasons, including the complicated psychological nature of reactive homicide, the heat...
An Attack on Self-Defense, American Criminal Law Review (2009)
Debate about the distinction between justification and excuse in criminal law theory has been lively...
Development of Response Evaluation and Decision (RED) and Antisocial Behavior in Childhood and Adolescence (with Chongming Yang, Kenneth A. Dodge, Gregory S. Pettit, and John E. Bates), Developmental Psychology (2009)
Using longitudinal data on 585 youths (48% female; 17% African American, 2% other ethnic minority),...
Loneliness as a partial mediator of the relation between low social preference in childhood and anxious/depressed symptoms in adolescence (with Chongming Yang, Virginia Salzer Burks, Kenneth A. Dodge, Joseph M. Price, Gregory S. Pettit, and John E. Bates), Development and Psychopathology (2009)
This study examined the mediating role of loneliness (assessed by self-report at Time 2; Grade...
On the Boundaries of Culture as an Affirmative Defense (with Eliot M. Held), Arizona Law Review (2009)
A “cultural defense” to criminal culpability cannot achieve true pluralism without collapsing into a totally...
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Social information processing and aggressive behavior: A transactional perspective (with Kenneth A. Dodge), The transactional model of development: How children and contexts shape each other (2009)
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The wrongfulness of wrongly interpreting wrongfulness: Provocation interpretational bias and heat of passion homicide, New Criminal Law Review (2009)
In U.S. criminal law, a defendant charged with murder can invoke the heat of passion...
On-line social decision making and antisocial behavior: Some essential but neglected issues, Clinical Psychology Review (2008)
The last quarter century has witnessed considerable progress in the scientific study of social information...
Social Information Processing and Cardiac Predictors of Adolescent Antisocial Behavior, Journal of Abnormal Psychology (2008)
The relations among social information processing (SIP), cardiac activity, and antisocial behavior were investigated in...
Testing an Individual Systems Model of Response Evaluation and Decision (RED) and Antisocial Behavior Across Adolescence, Child Development (2008)
This study examined the bidirectional development of aggressive response evaluation and decision (RED) and antisocial...