Awards & Honors
- 2018: Paul Hoch Award from the American Psychopathological Association
- 2017: Clarivate Analytics, Highly Cited Research (top 1% in Psychology/Psychiatry
- 2016: Distinguished Scientific Contributions, American Psychological Association
- 2014: Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher (top 100 in Psychology/Psychiatry)
- 2013: Honorary Doctorate, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
- 2012: Distinguished Fellow, SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind, University of California, Santa Barbara
- 2010: Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize for Productive Youth Development (with T.E. Moffitt)
- 2010: Ruane Prize for Outstanding Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Research from NARSAD (with T.E. Moffitt)
- 2008: Rema Lapouse Award for Significant Contributions to the Scientific Understanding of Epidemiology and Control of Mental Disorders, American Public Health Association (with T.E. Moffitt)
- 2008: Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD) (with T.E. Moffitt)
- 2007: Mortimer D. Sackler MD Prize for Distinguished Achievement in Developmental Psychobiology, by the faculties of the Sackler Institutes of Developmental Psychobiology at Columbia University Medical Center and at Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University)
- 2007: Elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science
- 2006: ISI Highly Cited Research (field: Psychology/Psychiatry). ISI identifies the "top 250 preeminent individual researchers in each of 21 subject categories who have demonstrated great influence on their field as measured by citations"
- 2006: Elected Fellow of the British Academy
- 2006: Royal Society - Wolfson Research Merit Award
- 2005: Elected Fellow of the American Psychopathological Association
- 2003: Maccoby Book Award in Developmental Psychology, American Psychological Association (book award received for Sex Differences in Antisocial Behaviour)
- 2002: Elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (UK)
- 2002: John P. Hill Memorial Award, Society for Research in Adolescence (with T.E. Moffitt)
- 1998: Selected as Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto
- 1995: Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology (Developmental Psychology), American Psychological Association
- 1995: Robert L. Fantz Award, American Psychological Foundation
- 1995-1996: University of Wisconsin Vilas Foundation Associate
- 1994: Margaret Bernauer Research Award, Wisconsin Psychological Association
- 1993-1998: University of Wisconsin H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellow
- 1990-1992: National Academy of Education Spencer Fellowship
- 1984: Cornell University, College of Human Ecology, Graduate Fellowship
- 1983: Foundation for Child Development, Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
- 1981: Highest Honors in Major, UC-Santa Cruz