Dr. Cait Cavanagh
@caitcavanagh.bsky.social
Juvenile justice researcher from a developmental psych perspective ▪️ Associate Professor, School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University ▪️ Treasurer, Lansing Board of Education www.TheADJustLab.com
🚨New article alert! Led by my good friend and former labmate, Cortney Simmons. Come for the review of developmental and legal research on how legal policies are misaligned w/adolescent development; stay for our ideas for more developmentally informed approaches! journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...
🚨New article alert! Led by doc student Tash Chlebuch. Youth (esp girls) w/family dysfunction are increasingly adjudicated for domestic violence (DV). But does the YLS accurately predict recidivism for youth with DV charges? And is accuracy moderated by gender? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Can the Youth Level of Service/Case Management Inventory predict recidivism for youth adjudicated of domestic assault and battery?
The Youth Level of Service/ Case Management Inventory is a popular and extensively studied juvenile risk assessment tool. Although many studies suppor…
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AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail
🚨New article alert! This review explores how adolescent development shapes youth trust as a distinct precursor to adult trust, highlighting the need for more ecologically valid and interdisciplinary approaches to studying trust. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A developmental psychological perspective on youth trust - Discover Psychology
Discover Psychology - Adolescence is a critical developmental period marked by significant social, emotional, and cognitive changes that profoundly impact trust. This paper examines how these...
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Want to know more about how Developmental Psychology and Ecological Psychology go hand in hand? Read our new paper! www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... This paper marks finishing our special issue on Resources for Developmental Ecological Psychology. The issue includes nice and diverse studies.
Frontiers | Editorial: Resources for developmental ecological psychology: organicism, epigenetics, relational development, dynamic systems
Phenomenology, exemplified, for example, by Colwyn Trevarthen's (1978) and Dan Zahavi's (2015) work.It is now widely accepted that the frameworks gu...
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🚨New article alert! Led by doc student Tash Chlebuch, we tested whether girls in the JJS who have experienced sexual victimization are judged differently by probation officers, and whether this differs by officer gender. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/3WQDH...
The Effect of Sexual Victimization on Juvenile Probation Officers’ Perceptions of Justice-Involved Girls’ Personality - Natasha Chlebuch, Caitlin Cavanagh, 2025
There is growing evidence that sexual victimization is a robust predictor of delinquency among girls. Histories of trauma and victimization are closely tied to ...
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I read 66 books in 2025! I circled my favorites. What did you enjoy reading this year? I’m looking for recommendations!
Dr. Cait Cavanagh@caitcavanagh.bsky.social · 2y agoRoundup of the 57 books I read in 2024! I starred the ones I enjoyed most. Did you read any of these? What did you think? What should I read in 2025?
A Nature poll found that 75% of U.S. researchers are considering leaving the country. Guyz, even the *historians* are leaving or contemplating / likely to go. Including, at least 3 historians that I know of in my subfield. 😢
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...
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I had so much fun talking about career path, approach to research, and current projects with the MSU Psychology Club! Plus I honestly got some of the toughest questions I’ve ever gotten in my career— these students are deep thinkers!
Check out my piece in The Conversation 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: theconversation.com/detroit-pare...
Detroit parents face fines if their children break curfew − research shows the policy could do more harm than good
The fines of $250 for a first offense and $500 for a second hit low-income families the hardest.
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🚨New article alert! Aaaand it’s a timely one! We tested how Latina immigrants' attitudes toward police and judges differed based on their documentation status and history of family deportations. Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/BNE9D... Or read the explainer 🧵 below...
The capitulation of universities—one after another after another after another without a shared strategy to fight the fascist assault together—is a historical blunder that will also end these elite institutions as ostensible places of genuine knowledge seeking.
Science is effectively dead in the US for at least the next 3½ years, and will then take another several years to even get started again. Canceled research doesn’t just uncancel itself, and scientists who find opportunity elsewhere won’t just come flocking back. The damage is generational.
Mark Lemley@marklemley.bsky.social · 12mo agoAll scientific grant funding must now be approved by a political appointee and "demonstrably advance the President's policy priorities." I wonder where innovation will happen in the future? It won't be in the US arstechnica.com/science/2025...
If you missed @caitcavanagh.bsky.social’s discussion of adolescent development & legal system issues, her Law & Mental Health Series talk is available on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/RlFj6bu0A3E?...
Law and Mental Health: Adolescent Development and the Juvenile Justice System
YouTube video by UNM Dept of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
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Dr. Cait Cavanagh@caitcavanagh.bsky.social · last yr.Great discussion today as part of the University of New Mexico Law & Mental Health series! Thanks @anthonyperillo.bsky.social for the invite and to the participants for joining the conversation.
Great discussion today as part of the University of New Mexico Law & Mental Health series! Thanks @anthonyperillo.bsky.social for the invite and to the participants for joining the conversation.
A huge congratulations to the newly-minted DOCTOR @alyssa-laberge.bsky.social! Alyssa has worked with me for 7 years, first as a master’s student and then as a PhD student. Her growth as a scholar, teacher, and person has been such a joy to witness. She’s on to a TT position at UW LaCrosse!
The number of extreme weather disasters has jumped fivefold worldwide over the past 50 years, and the number of deaths has nearly tripled, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
The Texas Flash Flood Is a Preview of the Chaos to Come
Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.
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Deporting childcare workers is a backhanded way to force US-born White women out of the workforce and into stay-at-home motherhood, where they'll become easier targets for conservative propaganda campaigns.
Ben Zipperer@benzipperer.org · last yr.🚨🚨 Trump's deportations could destroy millions of jobs for immigrants and US-born workers 🚨🚨 New report from me @epi.org
In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No
Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.
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US science is being taken apart brick by brick.
Neil Lewis, Jr.@neillewisjr.bsky.social · last yr."Kennedy said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet...were 'corrupt'...'Unless those journals change dramatically, we are going to stop NIH scientists from publishing in them and we’re going to create our own journals in-house'”
tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.
Restoring Gold Standard Science
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United
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Harvard today, your institution tomorrow. It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America. All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.Breaking News: The Trump administration halted Harvard’s ability to enroll international students, a major escalation in its battle with the school.
say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
Evan Torner@guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · last yr.There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university. University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
Hiiiiii, please check out “Chain Gang All-Stars” from your local library!
The Daily Beast@thedailybeast.bsky.social · last yr.Kristi Noem has been working with the producer of “Duck Dynasty” to pitch a reality TV show—titled “The American”—where immigrants will compete in a string of challenges across the country “for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship,” according to a new report.
Check this one out! Our daily diary study examined how virtual social interactions influenced youth mental health during COVID. Justice-involved youth saw strong enough benefits from virtual social contact to make up the "well-being gap" between JJ-involved and community youth.
April Thomas@aprilthomas.bsky.social · last yr.New article alert w/ @caitcavanagh.bsky.social and others! In this daily diary study, we explored how virtual social interactions (i.e., via phone or online) affected the mood and mental health of justice-involved and community adolescents across the first year of the pandemic. t.co/DxOa8NwMC0
