# Rick Nevin

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**Rick Nevin** is an economic consultant who acts as an adviser to the [National Center for Healthy Housing](/source/National_Center_for_Healthy_Housing) and has worked on the [Federal Strategy](/source/Federal_government_of_the_United_States) to eliminate childhood [lead poisoning](/source/Lead_poisoning).[1] Amongst other research, he has published papers in the journal *[Environmental Research](/source/Environmental_Research)* claiming to demonstrate a link between environmental lead exposure and [violent crime](/source/Violent_crime) in the [United States](/source/United_States)[2] and in nine countries worldwide.[3] This research has been publicized in the press by a [Washington Post](/source/Washington_Post) article in July 2007,[4] by [Mother Jones](/source/Mother_Jones_(magazine)) in 2013,[5] and elsewhere, including the [UK](/source/United_Kingdom)'s [Independent](/source/The_Independent) in October 2007[6] and [Guardian](/source/The_Guardian) in 2013.[7] Nevin's work on lead pollution has also featured in numerous books about public health,[8] social sciences and social justice,[9][10] criminology,[11][12] environmentalism and sustainability,[13][14] and air pollution.[15]

## See also

- [Lead–crime hypothesis](/source/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis)

## References

1. ["Riehl World View: Lead Poisoning And Crime"](http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2007/07/lead-poisoning-.html)

1. Nevin, Rick (May 2000). ["How Lead Exposure Relates to Temporal Changes in IQ, Violent Crime, and Unwed Pregnancy"](https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/35324/1/MPRA_paper_35324.pdf). *Environmental Research*. **83** (1): 1–22. [Bibcode:2000ER.....83....1N](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2000ER.....83....1N). [doi:10.1006/enrs.1999.4045](https://doi.org/10.1006/enrs.1999.4045). [PMID 10845777](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10845777). [S2CID 18983793](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:18983793)

1. Nevin, Rick (July 2007). ["Understanding international crime trends: The legacy of preschool lead exposure"](https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/35338/1/MPRA_paper_35338.pdf). *Environmental Research*. **104** (3): 315–336. [Bibcode:2007ER....104..315N](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007ER....104..315N). [doi:10.1016/j.envres.2007.02.008](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2007.02.008). [PMID 17451672](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17451672)

1. Vedantam, Shankar (July 8, 2007). ["Research Links Lead Exposure, Criminal Activity"](https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/07/AR2007070701073_pf.html). *Washington Post*. Retrieved 2007-07-13.

1. Drum, Kevin (January 2013). ["Lead: America's Real Criminal Element"](https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposure-gasoline-crime-increase-children-health/). *Mother Jones*. Retrieved 1 March 2022.

1. Lean, Geoffrey (October 28, 2007). ["Ban on leaded petrol 'has cut crime rates around the world'"](https://web.archive.org/web/20071029023438/http://environment.independent.co.uk/green_living/article3104678.ece). *The Independent*. Archived from [the original](http://environment.independent.co.uk/green_living/article3104678.ece) on October 29, 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-01.

1. Monbiot, George (7 January 2013). ["Yes, lead poisoning could really be a cause of violent crime"](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/07/violent-crime-lead-poisoning-british-export). *The Guardian*. Retrieved 3 March 2022.

1. Markowitz, Gerald & Rosner, David (2014). [*Lead Wars The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children*](https://books.google.com/books?id=pYlIDwAAQBAJ). University of California Press. p. 221. ISBN 9780520283930. Retrieved 1 March 2022.

1. Karaali, Gizem & Khadjavi, Lily S. (2021). [*Mathematics for Social Justice Focusing on Quantitative Reasoning and Statistics*](https://books.google.com/books?id=K1xQEAAAQBAJ). American Mathematical Society. p. 126. ISBN 9781470449278. Retrieved 3 March 2022.

1. Regoli, Robert; Hewitt, John; DeLisi, Matt (2011). [*Delinquency in Society*](https://books.google.com/books?id=v6MTZ2WhcfIC). Jones & Bartlett Learning. p. 89. ISBN 9780763777906. Retrieved 1 March 2022.

1. Siegel, Larry (February 2016). [*Criminology: The Core*](https://books.google.com/books?id=VZZ4CgAAQBAJ). Cengage Learning. p. 131. ISBN 9781305887336. Retrieved 3 April 2022.

1. Vito, Gennaro; Maahs, Jeffrey; Holmes, Ronald (2006). [*Criminology: Theory, Research, and Policy*](https://books.google.com/books?id=2tehE36CziMC). Jones and Bartlett. p. 482. ISBN 9780763730017.

1. Nielsen, Carrie (2021). [*Unleaded: How Changing Our Gasoline Changed Everything*](https://books.google.com/books?id=wGE7EAAAQBAJ). Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9781978821026. Retrieved 3 March 2022.

1. Brinkmann, Robert (2020). [*Introduction to Sustainability*](https://books.google.com/books?id=sMUQEAAAQBAJ). Second ed. Wiley Blackwell. ISBN 9781119675495. Retrieved 1 March 2022.

1. Woodford, Chris (2021). [*Breathless: Why Air Pollution Matters and How it Affects You*](https://books.google.com/books?id=0lEXEAAAQBAJ). London: Icon. p. 129. ISBN 9781785787102.

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