Kenneth A. Dodge, William McDougall Professor of Public Policy; Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience; and Director, Center for Child and Family Policy  

Office Phone: (919) 613-9303
Email Address: dodge@duke.edu

Areas of Expertise

  • Social Policy
    • Child Abuse and Neglect
    • Violence

Education:
Ph.D, Duke University, 1978
BA (Awarded with Highest Distinction and Honors in Psychology), Northwestern University, 1975

Research Categories: Youth Violence and Child Abuse

Research Description: Research: Development and prevention of chronic violence in children and adolescents; violence prevention policy

Teaching (Spring 2010):

  • Ccs 210s.01, Child policy issues Synopsis
    Sanford 224, M 04:25 PM-06:55 PM
  • Pubpol 210s.01, Child policy issues
    Sanford 224, M 04:25 PM-06:55 PM

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Jones, D., Godwin, J., Dodge, K.A., Bierman, K., Coie, J.D., Greenberg, M., Lochman, J.E., McMahon, R.J., & Pinderhughes, E.. "The impact of the Fast Track Prevention Trial on health services utilization by youth at risk for conduct problems." Pediatrics 125 (2010): 130-136.
  2. Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group. "The effects of the Fast Track preventive intervention on the development of conduct disorder across childhood." Child Development (In press).
  3. Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group. "Fast Track intervention effects on youth arrests and delinquency." Journal of Experimental Criminology (In press).
  4. Lansford, J.E., Criss, M.M., Laird, R.D., Shaw, D.S., Pettit, G.S., Bates, J.E., & Dodge, K.A.. "Reciprocal relations between parents' physical discipline and children's externalizing behavior during middle childhood and adolescence." Development and Psychopathology (In press).
  5. Lansford, J.E., Criss, M., Dodge, K.A., Shaw, D., Pettit, G.S., & Bates, J.E.. "Trajectories of physical discipline: Early childhood antecedents and developmental outcomes." Child Development 80.5 (2009): 1385-1402.

Curriculum Vitae

Bio/Profile
Kenneth Dodge is the William McDougall Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Psychology - Social and Health Sciences. Additionally, Dodge is the first director of the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke. In this role, he leads an effort to bridge basic scientific research in children’s development with public policy affecting children and families. The center provides an integrated system of research, debate and dissemination, public service and teaching, addressing issues of child and family policy.

Dodge is trained as a clinical and developmental psychologist, has published more than 130 scientific articles, and is the principal investigator for several large research grants. He is the recipient of a research scientist award from the National Institute of Mental Health and has been honored with several awards from the American Psychological Association, including the Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychopathology.

Dodge’s particular area of scholarship has addressed the development and prevention of chronic violence in children and adolescents. He has conducted both laboratory and longitudinal studies of how chronic aggressive behavior develops across the life span. His work has identified early family experience factors (such as child physical abuse), peer relations factors, and social-cognitive patterns that serve as catalysts for aggressive behavioral development. With colleagues, Dodge used these findings to create the Fast Track Program, a comprehensive effort to prevent the development of chronic violence in high-risk children. This program is being implemented and evaluated in four regions of the country, with positive preliminary results.

Dodge joined the faculty of the Sanford Institute in September of 1998. Previously Dodge served on the faculty at Indiana University, the University of Colorado and Vanderbilt University. He is married to Claudia Jones, M.D. They have two children, Graham and Zoe.

Kenneth A. Dodge