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2023

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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52
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2411
National Ranking
1176

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Overview

Brandon C. Welsh is affiliated with Northeastern University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in social sciences and health professions. Their work spans multiple subfields including sociology and political science, general health professions, clinical psychology, history, and health.

Their research topics focus on various areas such as crime patterns and interventions, criminal justice and corrections analysis, decadence, literature and society, health policy implementation science, homelessness and social issues, historical studies on reproduction, gender, health, and societal changes, and health disparities and outcomes.

Welsh's recent publications include:

  • Understanding iatrogenic effects for evidence-based policy: A review of crime and violence prevention programs (2020, Aggression and Violent Behavior)
  • Early Developmental Crime Prevention Forged Through Knowledge Translation: a Window into a Century of Prevention Experiments (2020, Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology)
  • Richard Cabot, pair-matched random allocation, and the attempt to compare like with like in the social sciences and medicine. Part 1: the context of the social sciences (2021, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine)
  • Richard Cabot, pair-matched random allocation, and the attempt to compare like with like in the social sciences and medicine. Part 2: the context of medicine and public health (2021, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine)
  • Standing on the shoulders of pioneers in experimental criminology: the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study at 85 years (1935-2020) and beyond: the 2021 Joan McCord Award Lecture (2021, Journal of Experimental Criminology)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Welsh include Steven N. Zane, Scott H. Podolsky, Daniel P. Mears, Eric L. Piza, and Alexis Yohros. These collaborations reflect interdisciplinary inputs across social science and health-related topics.

The primary publication venues where Welsh's work appears are CrimRxiv, Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Aggression and Violent Behavior, and the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.

Welsh has also contributed to academic literature through book publications, including a forthcoming work titled Between Medicine and Criminology, to be published by Oxford University Press in 2025.

Best Publications

  • Saving Children from a Life of Crime: Early Risk Factors and Effective Interventions

    David P. Farrington;Brandon C. Welsh

  • Evidence-Based Crime Prevention

    Brandon C. Welsh;David P. Farrington

  • Effects of early family/parent training programs on antisocial behavior and delinquency

    Alex R. Piquero;David P. Farrington;Brandon C. Welsh;Richard E. Tremblay

  • Effects of Early Family/Parent Training Programs on Antisocial Behavior & Delinquency

    Alex R. Piquero;David P. Farrington;Brandon C. Welsh;Richard Tremblay

  • Public Area CCTV and Crime Prevention: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

    Brandon C. Welsh;David P. Farrington

  • A meta-analysis update on the effects of early family/parent training programs on antisocial behavior and delinquency

    Alex R. Piquero;Wesley G. Jennings;Brie Diamond;David P. Farrington

  • Randomized experiments in criminology: What have we learned in the last two decades?

    David P. Farrington;Brandon C. Welsh

  • Family-based Prevention of Offending: A Meta-analysis

    David P Farrington;Brandon C Welsh

  • CCTV surveillance for crime prevention: A 40‐year systematic review with meta‐analysis

    Eric L. Piza;Brandon C. Welsh;David P. Farrington;Amanda L. Thomas

  • Can Policing Disorder Reduce Crime? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis:

    Anthony A. Braga;Anthony A. Braga;Brandon C. Welsh;Cory Schnell

  • Crime prevention effects of closed circuit television: a systematic review

    Brandon C. Welsh;David P. Farrington

  • The capable guardian in routine activities theory: A theoretical and conceptual reappraisal

    Meghan E Hollis;Marcus Felson;Brandon C Welsh

  • Guardianship for crime prevention: a critical review of the literature

    Meghan E. Hollis-Peel;Danielle M. Reynald;Maud van Bavel;Henk Elffers

  • The Maryland Scientific Methods Scale

    David P. Farrington;Denise C. Gottfredson;Lawrence W. Sherman;Brandon C. Welsh

  • Preventing Crime: What Works for Children, Offenders, Victims and Places

    Brandon Welsh;David P. Farrington

  • Effects Of Improved Street Lighting On Crime: A Systematic Review

    David P. Farrington;Brandon C. Welsh

  • The Oxford Handbook of Crime Prevention

    Brandon C Welsh;David P Farrington

  • Costs of Juvenile Crime in Urban Areas A Longitudinal Perspective

    Brandon C. Welsh;Rolf Loeber;Bradley R. Stevens;Magda Stouthamer-Loeber

  • When early crime prevention goes to scale: a new look at the evidence.

    Brandon C. Welsh;Christopher J. Sullivan;David L. Olds

  • Costs and Benefits of Preventing Crime

    Brandon C Welsh

  • Effects of Closed-Circuit Television on Crime

    Brandon C. Welsh;David P. Farrington

  • SURVEILLANCE FOR CRIME PREVENTION IN PUBLIC SPACE: RESULTS AND POLICY CHOICES IN BRITAIN AND AMERICA

    Brandon C. Welsh;David P. Farrington

Frequent Co-Authors

David P. Farrington
David P. Farrington University of Cambridge
Anthony A. Braga
Anthony A. Braga University of Pennsylvania
Richard E. Tremblay
Richard E. Tremblay University of Montreal
Alex R. Piquero
Alex R. Piquero University of Miami
Wesley G. Jennings
Wesley G. Jennings University of Mississippi
Rolf Loeber
Rolf Loeber University of Pittsburgh
J. David Hawkins
J. David Hawkins University of Washington
Adrian Raine
Adrian Raine University of Pennsylvania
Mark W. Lipsey
Mark W. Lipsey Vanderbilt University
Magda Stouthamer-Loeber
Magda Stouthamer-Loeber University of Pittsburgh

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