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Jorge M. Chavez is a former Pre-Doctoral Fellow of the National Consortium on Violence Research (NCOVR) and former Presidential
Fellow at the University of Albany . His primary areas of research focus on life course perspectives on child maltreatment
and adult outcomes, race/ethnicity differences in the comorbidity of mental health problems and violent behavior, and understanding
development and change in violence within community contexts. He has a number of ongoing projects including an examination
of race differences in the development of depression and violent behavior as consequences of childhood maltreatment; an examination
of social learning and attribution theories in explaining intimate-partner violence; a project on gender differences in risk
for recidivism for serious delinquent offenders; and a series of studies examining spatio-temporal trends in lethal violence.
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