NEW COURSE!!!
SPRING 2010
IU Department of Criminal Justice
P493: DEVELOPMENTAL CRIMINOLOGY
To learn more about the:
• Trajectories of antisocial behavior and offending
• Bio-psychosocial risk factors, including:
o Personality traits
o Parenting
o Prenatal and perinatal influences
o Peers
o Neighborhood
• Effects of life events and turning points on the course of development
• Gender differences in antisocial behavior
• Protective factors and resilience
• Gene-environment interplay
• Intergenerational transmission of aggression and antisocial behavior
• Intervention and prevention strategies
Course information:
DEVELOPMENTAL CRIMINOLOGY
26432 RSTR 05:45P-07:00P TR SY 210 Fontaine N
Professor information:
Nathalie Fontaine
Ph.D., University of Montreal (Criminology)
Assistant Professor
nfontain@indiana.edu
(812) 855-4285
Sycamore Hall, Room 319
Research area: Developmental criminology and psychopathology; prevention and intervention of antisocial behavior and related adjustment problems; gender and antisocial behavior; callous-unemotional traits; longitudinal and experimental designs.
Nathalie received her Ph.D. from the School of Criminology at the University of Montréal (Canada) in 2007. She received a postdoctoral fellowship (2007-2008) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to conduct research in the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London (U.K.), the School of Psychology, Laval University (Canada) and the MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London (U.K.). Her research in developmental criminology is multidisciplinary and has been published in high impact journals (e.g., Archives of General Psychiatry, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry). She has a special interest in translational research, applying basic science findings to applied and clinical settings. Her research concerns the development and the prevention of antisocial behavior and related disorders (i.e., substance use problems) using longitudinal and experimental designs. Recently, she has focused on the study of callous-unemotional traits in children, a potential risk factor for psychopathy in adulthood. She is currently integrating twin model-fitting and brain imaging in her research to study developmental criminology and psychopathology. She has also taken a lead in designing and conducting a novel fMRI study of cognitive and emotional empathy in adolescents and adults during her appointment at University College London.
