User profiles for F. Earls

Felton Earls

Professor of Human Development, Harvard School of Public Health
Verified email at hms.harvard.edu
Cited by 39297

Youth exposure to violence: Prevalence, risks, and consequences

…, TL Stichick, I Birdthistle, FJ Earls - American journal of …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Recent empirical work on the distribution, determinants, and consequences of children and
adolescents' witnessing of community violence are reviewed. Major findings across studies …

Psychological and neuroendocrinological sequelae of early social deprivation in institutionalized children in Romania.

M Carlson, F Earls - 1997 - psycnet.apa.org
The situation of infants and children living in state-operated residential institutions in
Romania provides a setting in which the consequences of severe social deprivation can be …

The social ecology of child health and well-being

F Earls, M Carlson - Annual review of public health, 2001 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract The term social ecology refers to the nested arrangement of family, school,
neighborhood, and community contexts in which children grow up. In this chapter, new directions in …

Neighborhoods and violent crime: A multilevel study of collective efficacy

RJ Sampson, SW Raudenbush, F Earls - science, 1997 - science.org
It is hypothesized that collective efficacy, defined as social cohesion among neighbors
combined with their willingness to intervene on behalf of the common good, is linked to reduced …

Beyond social capital: Spatial dynamics of collective efficacy for children

…, JD Morenoff, F Earls - American sociological …, 1999 - journals.sagepub.com
… 1999; Sampson forthcoming; Sampson, Raudenbush, and Earls 1997).I How do we … approaches
that privilege person-based accounts (Earls and Carlson 1996, 1998), we address …

Assessing exposure to violence in urban youth

…, SL Buka, SW Raudenbush, FJ Earls - The Journal of Child …, 1998 - cambridge.org
This study reports on the development of a structured interview, My Exposure to Violence (My
ETV), that was designed to assess child and youth exposure to violence. Eighty …

Neighborhood residence and mental health problems of 5-to 11-year-olds

…, T Leventhal, J Brooks-Gunn, FJ Earls - Archives of general …, 2005 - jamanetwork.com
F Neighborhoods and violent crime: a multilevel study of … IEarls F Youth exposure to
violence: prevalence, risks, and … IEarls F Youth exposure to violence: prevalence, risks, and …

Treatment-seeking for depression by black and white Americans

LK Sussman, LN Robins, F Earls - Social science & medicine, 1987 - Elsevier
This paper examines data from a psychiatric epidemiologic survey of 3004 households in St
Louis to determine whether there are distinctions between black and white Americans in …

How early can we tell?: Predictors of childhood conduct disorder and adolescent delinquency

JL White, TE Moffitt, F Earls, L Robins, PA Silva - Criminology, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
… All ANOVA F and x2 values were required to exceedp < .001.* Using this criterion, 11
continuous and 2 categorical variables showed significant group differences. The group means for …

Neighborhood support and the birth weight of urban infants

…, SW Raudenbush, F Earls - American journal of …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Differences in maternal characteristics only partially explain the lower birth weights of infants
of African-American women. It is hypothesized that economic and social features of urban …