Should Violent Criminal Offenders Be Tested for Past Exposure to Lead? and is treatment possible?

Fairfax economist Rick Nevin has spent more than a decade researching and writing about the relationship between early childhood lead exposure and criminal behavior later in life. (By Lois Raimondo -- The Washington Post)



Research Links Lead Exposure, Criminal Activity


Data May Undermine Giuliani's Claims


By Shankar Vedantam


Washington Post Staff Writer


Sunday, July 8, 2007; Page A02


Rudy Giuliani never misses an opportunity to remind people about his track record in fighting crime as mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001.


"I began with the city that was the crime capital of America," Giuliani, now a candidate for president, recently told Fox's Chris Wallace. "When I left, it was the safest large city in America. I reduced homicides by 67 percent. I reduced overall crime by 57 percent."