Erratum: Neighborhood Context and the Development of Aggression in Boys and Girls

Abstract

In the April 2010 issue of the Journal of Community Psychology (Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 329–349), the article, “Neighborhood Context and the Development of Aggression in Boys and Girls” by Beth Vanfossen, C. Hendricks Brown, Sheppard Kellam, Natalie Sokoloff, and Susan Doering went to press without an acknowledgments section having been submitted. Please note the following for this article: This work was funded by the National Science Foundation (BCS-9978453), the William T. Grant Foundation (Grant 2045), the National Institute of Mental Health (Grants R01 MH42968, P50 MH38725, R01 MH40859 with supplements from the National Institute on Drug Abuse) and Towson University. The authors wish to thank Bengt Muthén and Linda Muthén for advice and assistance in the data analyses. We also appreciate the helpful comments and insights of Margaret Ensminger, Carolyn Giordano, Nicholas Ialongo, Jackie King, Jeanne Poduska, Frances Rothstein, Virginia Thompson, and several anonymous reviewers of earlier drafts of the manuscript. The authors remain responsible for the content. We thank the Baltimore Police Department and Keith Harries for access to the data on crimes in Baltimore. We acknowledge our partners—the students, parents, teachers, and administrators of the Baltimore City Public School System (BCPSS)—who have contributed to this body of research for over 20 years. We thank the members of the Community and Institution Board that provided guidance, community support, and oversight during the young adult follow-up, and extend specific thanks to Dr. Patricia Welch, who was Chair of the BCPSS Board of School Commissioners at the time of the follow-up. We are grateful to the Prevention Science Methodology Group, who offered thoughtful feedback on the analytic strategy employed in this paper.