jdh@uw.edu
206-543-7655
Professional interests
- Promotion of positive youth development and prevention of problem behavior
- Social problems and social policy
- Adolescent development
- Research methods
J. David Hawkins
Professor Emeritus
PhD, Northwestern University
Dr. J. David Hawkins is the Endowed Professor of Prevention Emeritus and Founding Director of the Social Development Research Group. He received his BA in 1967 from Stanford University and his PhD in Sociology from Northwestern University in 1975. His research focuses on understanding and preventing child and adolescent health and behavior problems. He seeks to identify risk and protective factors for health and behavior problems across multiple domains; to understand how these factors interact in the development of healthy behavior and the prevention of problem behaviors. He develops and tests prevention strategies which seek to reduce risk through the enhancement of strengths and protective factors in families, schools, and communities.
He is principal investigator of the Community Youth Development Study, a randomized field experiment involving 24 communities across seven states testing the effectiveness of the Communities That Care prevention system developed by Hawkins and Richard F. Catalano. He has authored numerous articles and several books as well as prevention programs for parents and families, including Guiding Good Choices, Parents Who Care, and Supporting School Success. His prevention work is guided by the social development model, his theory of human behavior.
Dr. Hawkins is a current member of the Institute of Medicine’s Board on Children, Youth and Families, a past President of the Society for Prevention Research, has served as a member of the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s Epidemiology, Prevention and Services Research Review Committee, the Office for Substance Abuse Prevention’s National Advisory Committee, the National Institutes of Health’s Study Section for Community Prevention and Control, the Department of Education’s Safe, Disciplined, Drug-Free Schools Expert Panel, and the Washington State Governor’s Substance Abuse Prevention Committee. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Prevention Science. He is listed in Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, was awarded the 2009 Flynn Prize for Research from the USC School of Social Work, the 1999 Prevention Science Award from the Society for Prevention Research, 1999 August Vollmer Award from the American Society of Criminology, and the 2003 Paul Tappan Award from the Western Society of Criminology. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology, the Academy of Experimental Criminology, and the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. He is committed to translating research into effective practice and policy to improve adolescent health and development.
Published research
- Understanding the interplay of individual and social-developmental factors in the progression of substance use and mental health from childhood to adulthood
- Time-varying effects of families and peers on adolescent marijuana use: Person-environment interactions across development
- The social development model
- The role of self-regulation in academic and behavioral paths to a high school diploma
- The interplay between marijuana-specific risk factors and marijuana use over the course of adolescence
- The association of unemployment from age 21 to 33 with substance use disorder symptoms at age 39: The role of childhood neighborhood characteristics
- Parent-focused prevention of adolescent health risk behavior: Study protocol for a multisite cluster-randomized trial implemented in pediatric primary care
- Outcomes of childhood preventive intervention across 2 generations: A nonrandomized controlled trial
- Optimizing assessment of risk and protection for diverse adolescent outcomes: Do risk and protective factors for delinquency and substance use also predict risky sexual behavior?
- Neighborhood, family, and peer factors associated with early adolescent smoking and alcohol use
- Neighborhood structural factors and proximal risk for youth substance use
- Mechanisms linking high school graduation to health disparities in young adulthood: A longitudinal analysis of the role of health behaviors, psychosocial stressors, and health insurance
- Identifying and predicting criminal career profiles from adolescence to age 39
- Effects of social development intervention in childhood on adult life at ages 30 to 39
- Developmental pathways of youth gang membership: A structural test of the social development model
- Communities That Care: Building community engagement and capacity to prevent youth behavior problems
- Assessment of risk and protection in Native American youth: Steps toward conducting culturally relevant, sustainable prevention in Indian Country
- Applying the social development model in middle childhood to promote healthy development: Effects from primary school through the 30s and across generations
- An examination of alcohol use disorder symptoms and neighborhood disorganization from age 21 to 39
- A test-replicate approach to candidate gene research on addiction and externalizing disorders: A collaboration across five longitudinal studies
- Effect of the Communities That Care prevention system on adolescent handgun carrying: A cluster-randomized clinical trial
- Long-term impacts and benefit-cost analysis of the Communities That Care prevention system at age 23, 12 years after baseline
- Long-term effects of the Communities That Care trial on substance use, antisocial behavior, and violence through age 21 years
- Testing the question-behavior effect of self-administered surveys measuring youth drug use
- Effects of Communities That Care on males’ and females’ drug use and delinquency 9 years after baseline in a community-randomized trial
- Benefit-cost analysis of a randomized evaluation of Communities That Care: Monetizing intervention effects on the initiation of delinquency and substance use through grade 12
- The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force’s opportunity to pursue a new strategy for behavioral health
- The role of electronic cigarette use for quitting or reducing combustible cigarette use in the 30s: Longitudinal changes and moderated relationships
- The relationship between marijuana and conventional cigarette smoking behavior from early adolescence to adulthood
- The relationship between interpersonal violence victimization and smoking behavior across time and by gender
- The need for long-term follow-ups of delinquency prevention experiments
- Testing cross-generational effects of the Raising Healthy Children intervention on young adult offspring of intervention participants
- The dimensions of successful young adult development: A conceptual and measurement framework
- The Communities That Care Brief Depression Scale: Psychometric properties and criterion validity
- The association between regular marijuana use and adult mental health outcomes
- Sustaining adoption of science-based prevention through Communities That Care
- State-of-the-art in substance use prevention and early intervention: Applications to pediatric primary care settings
- Is e-cigarette use associated with better health and functioning among smokers approaching midlife?
- Adult social environments and the use of combustible and electronic cigarettes: Opportunities for reducing smoking in the 30s
- A trait-like propensity to experience internalizing symptoms is associated with problem alcohol involvement across adulthood, but not adolescence
- Parents’ perceptions of adolescent exposure to marijuana following legalization in Washington State
- Seattle Social Development Project – The Intergenerational Project (SSDP-TIP)
- Racial differences in mechanisms linking childhood socioeconomic status with growth in adult body mass index: The role of adolescent risk and educational attainment
- Ensure healthy development for all youth
- Effects of exposure to the Communities That Care prevention system on youth problem behaviors in a community-randomized trial: Employing an inverse probability weighting approach
- General and specific predictors of comorbid substance use and internalizing problems from adolescence to age 33
- Foreword
- Evidence-based juvenile justice programs and practices: A critical review
- Neighborhood poverty increases risk for daily smoking from age 30 to 39
- Parental alcohol use, parenting, and child on-time development
- Examining protective factors against violence among high-risk youth: Findings from the Seattle Social Development Project
- Marijuana legalization and parents’ attitudes, use, and parenting in Washington State
- Planning for long-term follow-up: Strategies learned from longitudinal studies
- Primary health care: Potential home for family-focused preventive interventions
- Long-term consequences of adolescent gang membership for adult functioning
- General and substance-specific predictors of young adult nicotine dependence, alcohol use disorder, and problem behavior: Replication in two samples
- Prevention system mediation of Communities That Care effects on youth outcomes
- Sexual risk behavior in young adulthood: Broadening the scope beyond early sexual initiation
- The onset of STI diagnosis through age 30: Results from the Seattle Social Development Project intervention
- Understanding the link between early sexual initiation and later sexually transmitted infection: Test and replication in two longitudinal studies
- Variation in the sustained effects of the Communities That Care prevention system on adolescent smoking, delinquency, and violence
- Youth problem behaviors 8 years after implementing the Communities That Care prevention system: A community-randomized trial
- Addressing core challenges for the next generation of type 2 translation research and systems: The translation science to population impact (TSci Impact) framework
- Alcohol and tobacco use disorder comorbidity in young adults and the influence of romantic partner environments
- Educational inequalities in the co-occurrence of mental health and substance use problems, and its adult socioeconomic consequences: A longitudinal study of young adults in a community sample
- Sustained effects of the Communities That Care system on prevention service system transformation
- The application of meta-analysis within a matched-pair randomized control trial: An illustration testing the effects of Communities That Care on delinquent behavior
- The association between parent early adult drug use disorder and later observed parenting practices and child behavior problems: Testing alternate models
- The effect of general and drug-specific family environments on comorbid and drug-specific problem behavior: A longitudinal examination
- Transforming prevention systems in the United States and the Netherlands using Communities That Care
- Variation in the effect of Communities That Care on community adoption of a scientific approach to prevention
- A cross-national comparison of risk and protective factors for adolescent drug use and delinquency in the United States and the Netherlands
- Can patterns of alcohol use disorder in young adulthood help explain gender differences in depression?
- Co-occurrence of sexual risk behaviors and substance use across emerging adulthood: Evidence for state- and trait-level associations
- Community-level effects of individual and peer risk and protective factors on adolescent substance use
- Cost-benefit analysis of Communities That Care outcomes at eighth grade
- Effects of timing of adversity on adolescent and young adult adjustment
- Examining explanatory mechanisms of the effects of early alcohol use on young adult alcohol dependence
- Family influences related to adult substance use and mental health problems: A developmental analysis of child and adolescent predictors
- Not quite normal: Consequences of violating the assumption of normality in regression mixture models
- Predictive validity of established cut points for risk and protective factor scales from the Communities That Care Youth Survey
- Risk versus direct protective factors and youth violence: Seattle Social Development Project
- Sustainability of the Communities That Care prevention system by coalitions participating in the Community Youth Development Study
- Sustained decreases in risk exposure and youth problem behaviors after installation of the Communities That Care prevention system in a randomized trial
- Sustaining the utilization and high quality implementation of tested and effective prevention programs using the Communities That Care prevention system
- The effects of general and alcohol-specific peer factors in adolescence on trajectories of alcohol abuse disorder symptoms from 21 to 33 years
- The role of educational aspirations and expectations in the discontinuity of intergenerational low-income status between generations
- Commentary on Valentine, Jeffrey, et al.: Replication in prevention science. The Advisory Board of Blueprints for Violence Prevention
- Drug use and risk among youth in different rural contexts
- Effects of Communities That Care on the adoption and implementation fidelity of evidence-based prevention programs in communities: Results from a randomized controlled trial
- Engaging communities to prevent underage drinking
- How do families matter? Age and gender differences in family influences on delinquency and drug use
- Men’s and women’s pathways to adulthood and associated substance misuse
- Positive childhood experiences and positive adult functioning: Prosocial continuity and the role of adolescent substance use
- Prevention service system transformation using Communities That Care
- Sensitive periods for adolescent alcohol use initiation: Predicting the lifetime occurrence and chronicity of alcohol problems in adulthood
- Strategies for characterizing complex phenotypes and environments: General and specific family environmental predictors of young adult tobacco dependence, alcohol use disorder, and co-occurring problems
- The role of maternal early-life and later-life risk factors on offspring low birth weight: Findings from a three-generational study
- Alcohol use disorders and depression: Protective factors in the development of unique versus comorbid outcomes
- Broadening understanding of the long-term effects of risk- and protection-focused prevention on the public health: Lessons from nurse-family partnerships
- Implementation of the Communities That Care prevention system by coalitions in the Community Youth Development Study
- Men’s and women’s pathways to adulthood and their adolescent precursors
- Person-environment interaction in the prediction of alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence in adulthood
- Testing the universality of the effects of the Communities That Care prevention system for preventing adolescent drug use and delinquency
- The relationship between outpatient mental health treatment and subsequent mental health symptoms and disorders in young adults
- Effects of childhood conduct problems and family adversity on health, health behaviors, and service use in early adulthood: Tests of developmental pathways involving adolescent risk taking and depression
- Growth in adolescent delinquency and alcohol use in relation to young adult crime, alcohol use disorders, and risky sex: A comparison of youth from low- versus middle-income backgrounds
- Ethnic and gender variation in religious involvement: Patterns of expression in young adulthood
- Letter to the editor
- Cumulative risk and cumulative protection: Relative contributions to predicting substance use, antisocial behavior, and mental health across development