Exposure to Lead & Delinquency – An Overlooked Link

by Kids Forward | December 3, 2009

Home 9 Youth Justice 9 Exposure to Lead & Delinquency – An Overlooked Link

WCCF just posted a policy brief summarizing some of the research about how children’s exposure to lead can impact their brain development and ultimately contribute to a host of at-risk behaviors, including increased aggressiveness and delinquency. The point of Lead Poisoning and Juvenile Delinquency is to alert professionals that we need to be aware of some of the organic issues that impact kids involved in the system – the more we understand some of these issues, the better able we are to deal with them successfully – and, perhaps in some cases, work with others to support efforts to reduce/eliminate lead exposure for all children.

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