We are the Development, Disorder, & Delinquency Lab @UCIrvine run by @EECauffman | Juvenile Justice research | Mission: bringing science to the streets
Irvine, CA
Joined August 2024
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Orange County’s Young Adult Court just received $500K from the @SamueliFound’s new OC+ Fund! Co-founded by @UCIrvine @Social_Ecology Professor @EECauffman and alumna Judge Maria Hernandez, the program has helped 76 young men clear felony records. More: ow.ly/YSLk50ZGik3
ALT Audience members in an Orange County, CA courtroom applaud during a recent Young Adult Court graduation ceremony, including a standing YAC co-founder and UC Irvine Professor Elizabeth Cauffman.
All members of the public are invited to our quarterly Local Advisory Committee Meeting, where we will be discussing the expansion of Young Adult Court services. Please join us on Friday, September 18, 2026 from 11:30am-12:30pm at Orangewood Foundation in Santa Ana.
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Congrats to @UCIrvine psychology PhD student Scarlet Cho ('24, MA psychology) & Distinguished Professor @EECauffman for publication of "The Predictive Utility of Youth Psychopathic Traits on Subsequent Psychopathy and Offending" in @LHB_Apls. ow.ly/vyOj50Zn7Gy #AllInForAll
ALT UC Irvine alumna and doctoral student of psychology Scarlet Cho ('24, MA psychology) and Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Education, and Law Elizabeth Cauffman, PhD.
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Check out a summary of my latest article on how psychopathy measured in adolescence is related to legal outcomes over time at link.growkudos.com/1p8z2eeab…
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Can an adolescent’s psychopathy score predict future psychopathy and offending in the long-term? Does this ability to predict weaken over time?
Check it out:
researchgate.net/publication…
@APA_Journals @EECauffman #psychopathy #juvenilejustice #forensicpsychology #delinquency
Angeleia, our former research assistant, shares insights about research and her advice about getting into it! We are so proud of her!
🌟 @UCIrvine Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Researcher Spotlight: Angeleia Do ('25, BA psychological science), whose mentor is Prof. @EECauffman. Angeleia shares her top advice for new researchers here: ow.ly/YsX850YquBI
#AnteaterInsights #AllinforAll
ALT Angeleia Do, research project coordinator with the UC Irvine Measuring Undergraduate Success Trajectories (MUST) Project.
Come join our lab as a postdoctoral scholar! Working with @EECauffman, you will primarily focus on the Young Adult Court (YAC) study, a randomized controlled trial of a specialized court designed for 18 to 25 year olds in Orange County. Apply here! recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09463
All members of the public are invited to our quarterly Local Advisory Committee Meeting, where we will be discussing the expansion of Young Adult Court services. Please join us on Friday, January 9, 2026 from 11:30am-12:30pm at Orangewood Foundation in Santa Ana.
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Operated by the @OrangewoodFdn in partnership with @UCIrvine and Orange County Superior Court, the first Young Adult Court Recovery-Focused House officially opened Sept. 12 in Fullerton. Read all about it here: ow.ly/jqwC50WX87c
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The @fullobserver1 picks up @UCIrvine's story on the opening of the 1st Young Adult Court Recovery-Focused House, which grew out of the Young Adult Court program co-created by the School of @Social_Ecology and Orange County Superior Court. @FullertonObser2 ow.ly/TMr250WZxwR
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Orange County's #YoungAdultCourt proves #incarceration isn’t the only option! ⚖️
Developmentally appropriate intervention works—reducing #recidivism & increasing successful community integration. #SmartJustice works. #EmergingAdults
🔗 Read more: ocregister.com/2025/03/26/gr…
All members of the public are invited to our first Local Advisory Committee Meeting, where we will be discussing the expansion of Young Adult Court services. Please join us on Friday, September 12, 2025 from 11:30am-12:30pm at Orangewood Foundation in Santa Ana.
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Congrats to @ucirvine alum Emily Hernandez ('20, BA psychological science and criminology, law & society; '22, psych sci post-baccalaureate) for recently earning an MA in legal & forensic psychology and a job as lab manager in psychological science Professor @EECauffman's 3D Lab.
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Congrats to recent @UCIrvine grad @DoAngeleia ('25, psychological science) for presenting a poster at the @APA research conference in Denver earlier this month. Her project examined how facets of social disconnection relate to dysphoria. #AnteaterPride #zotzotzot #AllinforAll
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The main story on June 15's @LastWeekTonight on @HBO concerns problems in the American juvenile justice system. See solutions at the video's 34:05 mark based on a lauded study led by @UCIrvine psychological science Professor @EECauffman: tinyurl.com/EConLWTwJO
#AllinforAll
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The 16th graduation of the phenomenal Orange County Young Adult Court is under way. Congrats to today’s 8 graduates! They are pouring their hearts out, expressing their gratitude for the program that helps first-time felony offenders turn their lives around. ❤️
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Together with Prof. @EECauffman, OC Superior Court Judge Maria Hernandez (a @UCIrvine @Social_Ecology alumna) created the OC Young Adult Court & her favorite part of each graduation is when she pardons the graduates’ felonies so they can have a 2nd chance with a clean record.
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Orange County's Young Adult Court program, whose co-creators include @UCIrvine School of @Social_Ecology alum Judge Maria Hernandez and Professor @eecauffman, made the top story on the front page of today's @ocregister. tinyurl.com/YACocr (subscription required)
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Congratulations to @UCIrvine psychological science and criminology, law & society alum (BA ’23) Giovanni Longino, who joins the @LSU clinical psychology PhD program this Fall. He was a research assistant in Professor @eecauffman's 3D (Development, Disorder, and Delinquency) Lab.
