Dorothy Thornton
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Community Health & Human Development
PHONE:
(415) 492-8022
FAX: (510) 642-2951
E-MAIL: dthornto@berkeley.edu
Courses
- Introduction to Secondary Data: Research Design and Analysis
- Environmental Policy and Regulation
Research Interests
- Environmental Regulation and Policy Implementation
- Designing environmental policy for regulatory fields with many small actors
- The role of mental health on maternal and birth outcomes
- The effect of pregnancy on maternal mental illness
Selected Publications
Environmental Regulation and Policy Implementation
Thornton, D., N. Gunningham & R.A. Kagan, General Deterrence and Corporate Environmental Behavior, Law & Policy vol 27 (2), April 2005
Gunningham, N., D. Thornton, & R.A. Kagan, Motivating Management: Corporate Compliance in Environmental Protection, Law and Policy vol. 27(2): 89-316, April 2005
Gunningham, N., R.A. Kagan & D. Thornton, Social License and Environmental Protection: Why Businesses Go Beyond Compliance. Law and Social Inquiry 29(4): 307-341, 2004
Shades of Green: Business, Regulation and Environment. (Gunningham, Neil; Kagan Robert A., and Thornton, Dorothy) Stanford University Press. June 2003
Thornton, D. R.A. Kagan, & N. Gunningham. Sources of Corporate Environmental Performance, California Management Review: 46(1): 127, 2003
Thornton, Dorothy; Kagan, Robert A.; Gunningham, Neil, Explaining Corporate Environmental performance: How Does Regulation Matter? Law and Society Review: 37(1):51-90, 2002
Maternal and Mental Health
Thornton HB, Nel DG, Thornton D, Van Honk J, Baker GA, and Stein D. The Neuropsychiatry and Neuropsychology of Lipoid Proteinosis, Forthcoming in the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 2007
Guendelman, S., D. Thornton, J. Gould, & N. Hosang. Mexican women in California: Differentials in maternal morbidity between foreign and US born populations. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 2006 Nov: 20(6):471-81
Guendelman, S., D. Thornton, J. Gould and N. Hosang. Obstetric Complications During Labor and Delivery: Assessing Ethnic Differences in California. Women's Health Issues 2006 Jul-Aug;16(4):189-97.
Guendelman, S. D. Thornton, J. Gould, & N. Hosang. Social Disparities in Severe Maternal Morbidity During Labor and Delivery. A Comparison of Mexican-Born and White Californians, 1996-1999. Am J Public Health. 2005 Dec; 5(12):2218-24.
Catalano, R., W. McConnell, P. Forster, B. McFarland & D. Thornton. Psychiatric Emergency Services and the System of Care, Psychiatric Services, 54:351-355, 2003. .
Bloom, J., D. Thornton, S.Stewart, P.Fobair, A.Varghese, & S. Hancock, The Effect of Risk Notification on Mood in Long Term Survivors of Hodgkin's Disease, Risk Decision and Policy, 5:225-237, 2000. .
Catalano, R., W. McConnell, P. Forster, B. McFarland, M. Shumway & D. Thornton, Does the Disbursement of Income Increase Psychiatric Emergencies Involving Drugs and Alcohol, Health Services Research, 35(4):813-823, 2000
Profile Updated: October 17, 2007