Joseph L. Nedelec, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
PUBLICATIONS
Articles
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*Denotes supervised graduate student co-author.
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For the most update-to-date list of publications click here.
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2019
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Nedelec, Joseph L. & Silver, Ian A.*
“Challenging assumptions: A genetically sensitive examination of the criminogenic effect of contact with the criminal justice system.” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 35, 69-86.
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2018
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*Silver, Ian A., & Nedelec, Joseph L.
“Cognitive abilities and antisocial behavior in prison: A longitudinal assessment using a large state-wide sample of prisoners.” Intelligence, 71, 17-31.
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*Silver, Ian A., *Pompoco, Amanda, & Nedelec, Joseph L.
“A failure to maintain regulated exposure: Developing an understanding of the predictors and recidivistic effects of experiencing program interruptions.” Journal of Offender Rehabilitation. In press (available online).
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*Silver, Ian A., & Nedelec, Joseph L.
“Ensnarement during imprisonment: Re-conceptualizing theoretically driven policies to address the association between within-prison sanctioning and recidivism.” Criminology and Public Policy, 17, 1005-1035.
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Dunkel, Curtis S., Shackelford, Todd K., Nedelec, Joseph L., & van der Linden, Dimitri.
“Cross-trait assortment for intelligence and physical attractiveness.” Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 13, 235-241.
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*Silver, Ian A., Nedelec, Joseph L., & *Pompoco, Amanda.
“Specific Responsivity: An Assessment of the Effect of Verbal and Math Cognitive Abilities on the Completion of Prison Programs.” Corrections: Policy, Practice, and Research. In press (available online).
*Silver, Ian A. & Nedelec, Joseph L.
“The moderating effects of intelligence: An examination of how IQ influences the association between environmental factors and antisocial behavior.” Journal of Criminal Justice, 54, 62-75.
Nedelec, Joseph L.
“Individual differences and co-occurring victimization online and offline: The role of impulsivity.” Personality and Individual Differences, 133, 77-84.
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Dunkel, Curtis S., Nedelec, Joseph L., & van der Linden, Dimitri.
“Using monozygotic twin differences to examine the relationship between parental affection and the general factor of personality.” Evolution and Human Behavior, 39, 52-58.
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2017
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Nedelec, Joseph L., Richardson, George, & *Silver, Ian A.
“Religiousness, spirituality, and substance use: A genetically sensitive examination and critique.” Journal of Drug Issues, 47, 340-355.
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Boutwell, Brian B., Nedelec, Joseph L., Winegard, Bo., Shackelford, Todd, Beaver, Kevin M., Wright, John P., Vaughn, Michael G., & Barnes, J.C.
“The prevalence of discrimination across racial groups in contemporary America: Results from a nationally representative sample of adults.” PLOS One, 12, e0183356.
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Schwartz, Joseph A., Connolly, Eric J., Nedelec, Joseph L., & Beaver, Kevin M.
“An investigation of genetic and environmental influences across the distribution of self-control.” Criminal Justice and Behavior, 44, 1163-1182.
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Kruger, Daniel, Köster, Moritz, & Nedelec, Joseph L.
“A life history framework advances the understanding of intentions to cooperate with police.” Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 12, 87-98.
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Dunkel, Curtis S., Nedelec, Joseph L., van der Linden, Dimitri, & Marshall, Riley.
“Physical attractiveness and the general factor of personality.” Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 3, 185-197.
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Richardson, George B., Chen, Ching-Chen, Dai, Chia-Liang, Brubaker, Michael D., & Nedelec, Joseph L.
“The psychometrics of the Mini-K: Evidence from two college samples.” Evolutionary Psychology, 15, 1-12.
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Nedelec, Joseph L.
“A multi-level analysis of the effect of interviewer characteristics on survey respondents’ reports of sensitive topics.” Personality and Individual Differences, 107, 96-101.
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Richardson, George B., Chen, Ching-Chen, Dai, Chia-Liang, Swoboda, Christopher M., Nedelec, Joseph L., & Chen, Wei-Wen.
“Substance use and success in mating effort.” Evolution and Human Behavior, 38, 48-57.
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2016
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Nedelec, Joseph L., *Park, Insun, & *Silver, Ian A.
“The effect of the maturity gap on delinquency and drug use over the life course: A genetically sensitive longitudinal design.” Journal of Criminal Justice, 47, 84-99.
Barnes, J.C., El Sayed, Sarah, TenEyck, Michael, Nedelec, Joseph L., Connolly, Eric J., Schwartz, Joseph A., Boutwell, Brian B., Wright, John P., Anderson, Nate, & Beaver, Kevin M.
“Estimating relative stability in developmental research: A critique of modern approaches and a novel method.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 33, 319-346.
Beaver, Kevin M., Connolly, Eric, J., Schwartz, Joseph A., Boutwell, Brian, B., Barnes, JC, & Nedelec, Joseph L.
“Sexual orientation and involvement in nonviolent and violent behaviors: Findings from a longitudinal sample of males and females.” Archives of Sexual Behavior, 45, 1759-1769.
Beaver, Kevin M., Nedelec, Joseph L., Barnes, J.C., Boutwell, Brian B., & Boccio, Cashen.
“The association between intelligence and personal victimization in adolescence and adulthood.” Personality and Individual Differences, 98, 355-360.
Richardson, George B., Dai, Chia-Liang, Chen, Ching-Chen, Nedelec, Joseph L., Swoboda, Christopher M., & Chen, Wei-Wen.
“Adolescent life history strategy in the intergenerational transmission and developmental stability of substance use”. Journal of Drug Issues, 46, 102-121.
Beaver, Kevin M., Schwartz, Joseph A., Barnes, J.C., & Nedelec, Joseph L.
“Genetic and environmental influences on being expelled and suspended from school.” Personality and Individual Differences, 90, 241-218.
2015
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Schwartz, Joseph A., Eric J. Connolly, Kevin M. Beaver, Joseph L. Nedelec, & Michael G. Vaughn
“Proposing a pedigree risk measurement strategy: Capturing the intergenerational transmission of antisocial behavior in a nationally representative sample of adults.” Twin Research and Human Genetics, 18, 772-784.
Boutwell, Brian B., Barnes, J.C., Beaver, Kevin M., Haynes, Raelynn D., Nedelec, Joseph L., Gibson, Chris L.
“A unified crime theory: The evolutionary taxonomy.” Aggression and Violent Behavior, 25, 343-353.
Dunkel, Curtis S., Nedelec, Joseph L., van der Linden, Dimitri.
“Predicting the General Factor of Personality: From adolescence through adulthood”. Human Ethology Bulletin, 3, 4-12.
Boutwell, Brian B., Nedelec, Joseph L., Lewis, Richard, Barnes, J.C., and Beaver, Kevin M.
“A behavioral genetic test of the evolutionary taxonomy.” Evolutionary Psychological Science, 1, 241-250.
Kruger, Daniel J., Nedelec, Joseph L., Reischl, Thomas M., and Zimmerman, Marc A.
“Life history predicts perceptions of procedural justice and police legitimacy.” Evolutionary Psychological Science, 1, 183-194.
Connolly, Eric J., Joseph A. Schwartz, Joseph L. Nedelec, Kevin M. Beaver, and J.C. Barnes
“Different slopes for different folks: Genetic influence on growth in delinquent peer association and delinquency during adolescence.” Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 44, 1413-1427.
Beaver, Kevin M., Nedelec, Joseph L., da Silva Costa, Christian, and Vidal, Maria M.
“The future of biosocial criminology.” Criminal Justice Studies, 28, 6-17.
Wright, John Paul, Barnes, J.C., Boutwell, Brian B., Schwartz, Joseph A., Connolly, Eric J., Nedelec, Joseph L., and Beaver, Kevin M.
“Mathematical proof is not minutiae and irreducible complexity is not a theory: A final response to Burt and Simons and a call to criminologists.” Criminology, 53, 113-120.
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2014
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Barnes, J.C., Wright, John P., Boutwell, Brian B., Schwartz, Joseph A., Connolly, Eric J., Nedelec, Joseph L., and Beaver, Kevin M.
“Demonstrating the validity of twin research in criminology.” Criminology, 52, 588-626.
Nedelec, Joseph L. and Beaver, Kevin M.
"Physical attractiveness as a phenotypic marker of health: An assessment using a nationally representative sample of American adults." Evolution and Human Behavior, 35, 456-463.
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Daily Mail Online, Health section: click here to read the story.
Fox News, Shepard Smith: click here to watch the video report.
Boston Globe: click here to read the story.
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: a very brief joke based on the paper; click here to wacth the clip (at 0:58).
Beaver, Kevin M., Nedelec, Joseph L., da Silva Costa, Christian, Poersch, Ana Paula, Stelmach, Mônica Celis, Freddi, Micheli Cristina, Gajos, Jamie M., and Boccio, Cashen.
“The association between psychopathic personality traits and health-related outcomes.” Journal of Criminal Justice, 42, 399-407.
Nedelec, Joseph L. and Beaver, Kevin M.
“The relationship between self-control in adolescence and social consequences in adulthood: Assessing the influence of genetic confounds.” Journal of Criminal Justice, 42, 288-298.
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2013
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Beaver, Kevin M., Schwartz, Joseph A., Connolly, Eric J., Nedelec, Joseph L., Al-Ghamdi, Mohammed S., and Kobeisy, Ahmed N.
“The genetic and environmental architecture to the stability of IQ: Results from two independent samples of kinship pairs.” Intelligence, 41, 428-438.
Beaver, Kevin M., Schwartz, Joseph A., Nedelec, Joseph L., Connolly, Eric J., Boutwell, Brian B., and Barnes, J.C.
“Intelligence is associated with criminal justice processing: Arrest through incarceration.” Intelligence, 41, 277-288.
Rowland, Meghan W., Schwartz, Joseph A., Nedelec, Joseph L., and Beaver, Kevin M.
“Social bias and the development of self-control: Results from a longitudinal study of children and adolescents.” International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 57, 557-577.
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2012
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Nedelec, Joseph L. and Beaver, Kevin M.
“The association between sexual behavior and antisocial behavior: Insights from an evolutionary informed analysis.” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 28, 329-345.
Nedelec, Joseph L., Schwartz, Joseph A., Connolly, Eric J., and Beaver, Kevin M.
“Exploring the association between IQ and differential life outcomes: Results from a longitudinal sample of monozygotic twins.” Temas em Psicologia, 20, 31-43.
Beaver, Kevin M., Nedelec, Joseph L., Rowland, Meghan W., and Schwartz, Joseph A.
“Genetic risks and ADHD symptomatology: Exploring the effects of parental antisocial behaviors in an adoption-based study.” Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 43, 293-305.
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2011
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Beaver, Kevin M., Rowland, Meghan W., Schwartz, Joseph A., and Nedelec, Joseph L.
“The genetic origins of psychopathic traits in adult males and females: Results from an adoption-based study.” Journal of Criminal Justice, 39, 426-432.
Nedelec, Joseph L. and Beaver, Kevin M.
attractiveness.” Personality and Individual Differences, 51, 930-934.
Beaver, Kevin M., Nedelec, Joseph L., Rowland, Meghan W., Lippoff, Courtney, and Jackson, Dylan.
“Association between MAOA genotype and anger and hostility: The moderating influence of risk and protective factors.” Journal of Research in Personality, 45, 279-284.
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Book Chapters
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2019
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Segal, Nancy L., Nedelec, Joseph L., & Costello-Harris, Vanessa.
“Differences in development in monozygotic twins”. In A. Mattias and I. Blickstein (Eds.) Why are monozygotic twins different? From genetics to environment. New York, NY: Elsevier. Forthcoming.
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2016 - 2018
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Beaver, Kevin M., Connolly, Eric J., Nedelec, Joseph L., & Schwartz, Joseph A.
“On the genetic and genomic basis of aggression, violence, and antisocial behaviour.” In Rosemary L. Hopcroft (Ed.) Oxford Handbook of Evolution, Biology, and Society. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
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Stockman, Mark, Nedelec, Joseph L., & *Mackey, William.
“Organizational cybervictimization: Data breach prevention using a victimological approach.” In Thomas H. Holt (Ed.) Interdisciplinary Research on Cybercrime. New York, NY: Routledge.
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2015
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Nedelec, Joseph L., Schwartz, Joseph A., and Connolly, Eric J.
“Intelligence as the quintessential biosocial variable: An examination of etiological factors and associations with criminal offending and criminal justice processing.” In Matt DeLisi and Michael G. Vaughn (Eds.) The Routledge International Handbook of Biosocial Criminology. New York, NY: Routledge.
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2014
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Beaver, Kevin M. and Nedelec, Joseph L.
“A biosocial explanation for male-female differences in criminal involvement.” In Kevin M. Beaver, J.C. Barnes, and Brian B. Boutwell (Eds.) The Biosocial vs. Nurture Debate in Criminology: On the Origins of Criminal Behavior and Criminality. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
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Beaver, Kevin M. and Nedelec, Joseph L.
“The genetic basis to self-control”. In Gerben Bruinsma and David Weisburd (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. New York, NY: Springer Publications.
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Nedelec, Joseph L. and Beaver, Kevin M.
“Biosocial criminology”. In J. Mitchell Miller (Ed.) The Encyclopedia of Theoretical Criminology. New York, NY: Springer Publications.
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2013
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Beaver, Kevin M., Nedelec, Joseph L., Schwartz, Joseph A., and Connolly, Eric J.
“Evolutionary behavioral genetics of violent crime.” In Todd K. Shackelford and Randy Hansen (Eds.) The Evolution of Violence. New York, NY: Springer.
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2012
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Nedelec, Joseph L., Schwartz, Joseph A., and Beaver, Kevin M.
“The myth of rational choice as an explanation for criminal behavior: A biosocial critique”. In Robert M. Bohm and Jeffery T. Walker (Eds.) Demystifying Crime and Criminal Justice. New York: Oxford University Press.
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Other Publications
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2016 - 2019
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Nedelec, Joseph L. & *Silver, Ian A.
“Individual differences.” The SAGE Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Forthcoming.
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Nedelec, Joseph L. & *Silver, Ian A.
“Genetic and environmental influences on violence and aggression.” The SAGE Encyclopedia of Criminal Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
Schwartz, Joseph A., Connolly, Eric J., & Nedelec, Joseph L.
“Tips on how to survive graduate school as a biosocial criminologist.” The Criminologist, 41, 31-32.
*Silver, Ian A. & Nedelec, Joseph L.
“A review of The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime, by Adrian Raine.” Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 30, 159-161.
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Hussein, Nesrin, Wang, Wentao, Nedelec, Joseph L., Xuetao, Wei, & Niu, Nan.
“Unified profiling of attackers via domain modeling.” In Proc. the 1st International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Investigating and Countering Crime, Beijing, China, Sep. 2016, pp. 98–101.
Nedelec, Joseph L., Connolly, Eric J., Schwartz, Joseph A., & *Silver, Ian A.
“Biosocial criminology”. In Christopher J. Schreck (Ed.) The Encyclopedia of Juvenile Delinquency and Justice. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
2014 - 2015
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Beaver, Kevin M. & Nedelec, Joseph L.
“The genetic basis to self-control”. In Gerben Bruinsma and David Weisburd (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. New York, NY: Springer Publications.
Nedelec, Joseph L. & Beaver, Kevin M.
“Biosocial criminology”. In J. Mitchell Miller (Ed.) The Encyclopedia of Theoretical Criminology. New York, NY: Springer Publications.
2010 - 2013
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Nedelec, Joseph L.
“A review of Social Class and Crime: A Biosocial Approach, by Anthony Walsh.” International Criminal Justice Review, 22, 212-213.
Blomberg, Thomas G., Bales, William D., Mann, Karen, Meldrum, Ryan, & Nedelec, Joseph L.
“Broward county jail population: Trends and forecast”. Report prepared for the Broward Sherriff’s Office, Department of Community Control.