Brandon Welsh | College of Social Sciences and Humanities

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Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Director, Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study

Professor Brandon C. Welsh’s research and teaching focuses on the prevention of delinquency and crime, with an emphasis on developmental, community, and situational approaches, and evidence-based social policy. Professor Welsh is an author or editor of 10 books, including Experimental Criminology: Prospects for Advancing Science and Public Policy (Cambridge University Press), The Oxford Handbook of Crime Prevention (Oxford University Press), and The Future of Criminology (Oxford University Press). He was a member of the NIJ Study Group on Transitions from Juvenile Delinquency to Adult Crime and the OJJDP Study Group on Very Young Offenders, and has served as a consultant to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the British Home Office, Canada’s National Crime Prevention Centre, and the International Centre for the Prevention of Crime in Montreal.

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Selected Publications

Books

Welsh, B.C., Braga, A.A., & Bruinsma, G.J.N. (Eds.). (2013). Experimental Criminology: Prospects for Advancing Science and Public Policy. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Welsh, B.C., & Farrington, D.P. (Eds.). (2012). The Oxford Handbook of Crime Prevention. New York: Oxford University Press.
Loeber, R., & Welsh, B.C. (Eds.). (2012). The Future of Criminology. New York: Oxford University Press.
Welsh, B.C., & Farrington, D.P. (2009). Making Public Places Safer: Surveillance and Crime Prevention. New York: Oxford University Press.
Farrington, D.P., & Welsh, B.C. (2007). Saving Children from a Life of Crime: Early Risk Factors and Effective Interventions. New York: Oxford University Press.

Articles

Welsh, Brandon C., and Richard E. Tremblay (2020). Early developmental crime prevention forged through knowledge translation: A window into a century of prevention experiments. Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology.
Welsh, Brandon C. (2020). The case for rigorous comparative research and population impacts in a new era of evidence-based interventions for juvenile offenders. Criminology & Public Policy, 19, 1347-1354.
Zane, Steven N., Daniel P. Mears, and Brandon C. Welsh (2020). How universal is disproportionate minority contact? An examination of racial and ethnic disparities in juvenile justice processing across four states. Justice Quarterly, 37, 817-841.
Welsh, B.C., Zane, S.N., Zimmerman, G.M., & Yohros, A. (2019). Association of a crime prevention program for boys with mortality 72 years after the intervention: A follow-up of a randomized clinical trial. JAMA Network Open, 2(3), e190782.
Tremblay, R.E., Welsh, B.C., & Sayre-McCord, G. (2019). Crime and the life-course, prevention, experiments, and truth seeking: Joan McCord’s pioneering contributions to criminology. Annual Review of Criminology, 2, 1-20.
Piza, E.L., Welsh, B.C., Farrington, D.P., & Thomas, A.L. (2019). CCTV surveillance for crime prevention: A 40-year systematic review with meta-analysis. Criminology & Public Policy, 18, 135-159.
Welsh, B.C., Dill, N.E., & Zane, S.N. (2018). The first delinquency prevention experiment: A socio-historical review of the origins of the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study’s research design. Journal of Experimental Criminology. DOI: 10.1007/s11292-018-9323-9.
Zane, S.N., Welsh, B.C., & Zimmerman, G.M. (2018). Criminal offending and mortality over the full life-course: A 70-year follow-up of the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study. Journal of Quantitative Criminology. DOI: 10.1007/s10940-018-9399-4.
Welsh, B.C., Zimmerman, G.M., & Zane, S.N. (2018). The centrality of theory in modern day crime prevention: Developments, challenges, and opportunities. Justice Quarterly, 35, 139-161.
Welsh, B.C., Zane, S.N., & Rocque, M. (2017). Delinquency prevention for individual change: Richard Clarke Cabot and the making of the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study. Journal of Criminal Justice, 52, 79-89.

Education

PhD, Criminology, University of Cambridge
Contact

617.373.8078 b.welsh@northeastern.edu
Address

401B Churchill Hall
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115

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Professor Emeritus of Criminology and Criminal Justice

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Ekaterina Botchkovar

Undergraduate Program Director; Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Carlos Cuevas

Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Co-Director of the Violence and Justice Research Lab

Kevin Drakulich

Associate Director and Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Amy Farrell

Director and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Co-Director of the Violence and Justice Research Lab

James Alan Fox

Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy

Natasha Frost

Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; PhD Program Director

Jack Greene

Professor Emeritus of Criminology and Criminal Justice

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Nikos Passas

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Simon Singer

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Jacob Stowell

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Gregory Zimmerman

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