Brandon Welsh
Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Director, Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study, Co-Director, Crime Prevention Lab
Dr. Welsh is a Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University and the Visiting Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is the Director of the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study and Co-Director (with Eric Piza) of the Crime Prevention Lab. His research and teaching focuses on the prevention of delinquency, crime, and interpersonal violence and evidence-based social policy. He has written extensively on these topics and is an author or editor of 12 books. He holds a Ph.D. in Criminology from Cambridge University
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.
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Education
PhD, Criminology, University of Cambridge
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Contact
617.373.8078 b.welsh@northeastern.edu -
Address
401B Churchill Hall
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
