Deborah Denno comments to the Huffington Post on the fact that convicted children had lead levels 10 to 11 times higher than their non-offending counterparts.
In the first longitudinal study of the issue, Fordham Law Professor Deborah Denno weighed more than 3,000 factors to see what correlated with incarceration and criminality. She discovered that an elevated lead level in blood was the single highest predictor of school behavioral problems and the third highest predictor of juvenile crime.
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