James Garbarino, the E.L. Vincent Professor of Human Development at Cornell University, will give the 2001 Bernard Yudowitz Lecture at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 28, in the MacDonald Moot Court Room in the Cornell Law School's Myron Taylor Hall.

Garbarino will speak on "Lost Boys: Why Our Sons Turn Violent," which is the title of his latest book (The Free Press, 1999). Garbarino is the co-director of the Family Life Development Center at Cornell and the author of 15 other books. Lost Boys draws on extended interviews with incarcerated teen murderers and tries to make sense of their words through the lens of the latest child development research. Garbarino has been studying violence and the impact of violence on children and youth in the United States and around the world for 25 years. He will discuss how, to vulnerable boys, violence becomes normal or even "the right thing to do," and how, to these boys, violence makes moral sense and seems necessary for survival.

The Bernard S. Yudowitz Lecture Series was established in 1999 by Dr. Bernard S. Yudowitz. The series brings practitioners and scholars to the Cornell Law School for annual lectures on subjects of importance to students with an interest in law and medicine.

Yudowitz is board certified in both psychiatry and neurology and is a diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Psychiatry. In addition to numerous clinical directorships and faculty appointments, he has conducted extensive research on violent behavior and has testified in more than 500 murder cases throughout the United States.

Yudowitz earned a bachelor's degree from Cornell in 1955, a juris doctorate from Rutgers University School of Law in 1961 and an M.D. from Scotland's Glasgow Medical School in 1966.

Other related websites:

• Events at the Cornell Law School: http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/alumni
• Information on "Lost Boys" by Garbarino: http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/April99/lost.boys.ssl.html.