Paul Boxer

Assistant Professor
PhD Bowling Green State University
Rutgers University, Psychology Department
101 Warren Street, Newark, NJ 07102
Smith Hall Room 333
Phone-Office: (973) 353-5440 ext. 3943
Fax: (973) 353-1171
E-mail: pboxer at(@) psychology.rutgers.edu

Research Interests

Dr. Boxer studies violent and non-violent antisocial behavior with an emphasis on socialization mechanisms accounting for the development and expression of these forms of behavior over time and across situation. Boxer focuses his research on atypical and at-risk populations, with active projects sampling juvenile delinquents and adult criminals, adolescents in psychiatric and outpatient clinical treatment, and individuals living in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities. Boxer's work includes projects funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the Centers for Disease Control, and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Specific studies examine how factors such as violence in communities, the media, families, and peer groups shape and maintain problem behaviors such as aggression, delinquency, and substance use. Boxer also has expertise in the design, implementation, and evaluation of prevention and intervention programs for youth aggression, and is interested in how social-developmental and clinical science can be integrated to improve services for children and adolescents. He is an affiliate of the Aggression Research Program of the University of Michigan.

Representative Publications

Boxer, P., Middlemass, K., & Delorenzo, T. (In press). Exposure to violent crime during incarceration: Effects on psychological adjustment following release. Criminal Justice and Behavior.

Boxer, P., Huesmann, L.R., Bushman, B.J., O'Brien, M., & Moceri, D. (2009). The role of violent media preferences in cumulative developmental risk for violence and general aggression. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 38, 417-428.

Boxer, P., Gullan, R.L., & Mahoney, A. (2009). Adolescents' physical aggression towards parents in a clinic-referred sample. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 38, 106-116.

Boxer, P., & Terranova, A.M. (2008). Effects of multiple maltreatment experiences among psychiatrically hospitalized youth. Child Abuse and Neglect, 32, 637-647.

Boxer, P., Morris, A.S., Terranova, A.M., Kithakye, M., Savoy, S.C., & McFaul, A. (2008). Coping with exposure to violence: Relations to aggression and emotional symptoms in three urban samples. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 17, 881-893.

Boxer, P. (2007). Aggression in very high-risk youth: Examining developmental risk in an inpatient psychiatric population. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 77, 636-646.