Rick Nevin

Rick Nevin is an economic consultant who acts as an adviser to the National Center for Healthy Housing and has worked on the Federal Strategy to eliminate childhood lead poisoning [cite web|url=http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2007/07/lead-poisoning-.html|title=Riehl World View: Lead Poisoning And Crime] . Amongst other research, he has published papers in the journal "Environmental Research" claiming to demonstrate a link between environmental lead exposure and violent crime in the United States [cite journal|doi=10.1006/enrs.1999.4045 |author=Nevin, Rick|date=May 2000|title=How Lead Exposure Relates to Temporal Changes in IQ, Violent Crime, and Unwed Pregnancy|journal=Environmental Research|volume=83|issue=1|pages=1–22] and in nine countries worldwide [cite journal|doi=10.1016/j.envres.2007.02.008|author=Nevin, Rick|date=July 2007|title=Understanding international crime trends: The legacy of preschool lead exposure|journal=Environmental Research|volume=104|issue=3|pages=315–336] . This research has been publicized in the press by a Washington Post article in July 2007 [cite news|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/07/AR2007070701073_pf.html|title=Research Links Lead Exposure, Criminal Activity|publisher=Washington Post|date=July 8, 2007|accessdate=2007-07-13] , and elsewhere, including the UK's Independent in October 2007 [cite news|url=http://environment.independent.co.uk/green_living/article3104678.ece|title=Ban on leaded petrol 'has cut crime rates around the world'|publisher=The Independent|date=October 28, 2007|accessdate=2007-12-01] .

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