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Ross Homel is affiliated with Griffith University in Australia and conducts research primarily in the fields of Health Professions, Psychology, and Social Sciences. Their work is concentrated within subfields such as General Health Professions, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

Homel's research covers a range of topics including Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Community Health and Development, Health Policy Implementation Science, Homelessness and Social Issues, Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression, Crime Patterns and Interventions, and Complex Network Analysis Techniques.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Homel include:

  • Developmental Crime Prevention in the Twenty-first Century: Generating Better Evidence Embedded in Large-scale Delivery Systems, 2021, Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology
  • Evaluation of a place-based collective impact initiative through cross-sectoral data linkage, 2020, Australian Journal of Social Issues
  • Child well-being before and after the 2020 COVID-19 lockdowns in three Australian states, 2023, Australian Journal of Social Issues
  • Cumulative Sociodemographic Risk as a Predictor of Adolescent Antisocial Behaviour, 2024, Child Indicators Research
  • The development and psychometric properties of a scalable digital measure of social and emotional wellbeing for middle childhood, 2023, Applied Developmental Science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Homel include:

  • Kate Freiberg
  • Jacqueline Allen
  • Tara Renae McGee
  • Judy Rose
  • Samantha Low-Choy

Typical publication venues for Homel's research include:

  • Australian Journal of Social Issues
  • Child Indicators Research
  • Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology
  • Applied Developmental Science
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Homel has also authored works published by the Australian Institute of Criminology eBooks, such as:

  • The impact of a preschool communication program and comprehensive family support on serious youth offending: New findings from the Pathways to Prevention Project, 2024
  • Family support, enriched preschool and serious youth offending, 2024

Best Publications

  • Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity: Research and Public Policy

    Thomas Babor;Raul Caetano;Sally Casswell;Griffith Edwards

  • Alcohol: No ordinary commodity: Research and public policy, 2nd ed.

    Thomas Babor;Raul Caetano;Sally Casswell;Griffith Edwards

  • Infectious Burglaries. A Test of the Near Repeat Hypothesis

    Michael Kenneth Townsley;Ross Homel;Janet Chaseling

  • Policing and Punishing the Drinking Driver: A Study of General and Specific Deterrence

    Ross Homel

  • The Prediction and Prevention of Violence in Pubs and Clubs

    Ross Homel

  • A Revised Classification of Situational Crime Prevention Techniques

    Ross Homel;R. Clarke

  • Policing and Punishing the Drinking Driver: A Study of General and Specific Deterrence.

    Harold G. Grasmick;Ross Homel

  • Public Drinking and Violence: Not Just an Alcohol Problem

    Ross Homel;Steve Tomsen;Jennifer Thommeny

  • Raising the bar: preventing aggression in and around bars, clubs and pubs

    Kathryn Graham;Ross Homel

  • Repeat Burglary Victimisation: Spatial and Temporal Patterns

    Michael Kenneth Townsley;Ross Homel;Janet Chaseling

  • Alcohol : No Ordinary Commodity – a summary of the second edition

    T. Babor;R. Caetano;S. Casswell;G. Edwards

  • Policing and punishing the drinking driver

    Ross Homel

  • Preventing Alcohol-related Crime Through Community Action: The Surfers Paradise Safety Action Project

    Ross Homel;Margory Ann Hauritz;Richard Keith Wortley;G. McIlwain

  • A meta-analysis of the effects of early developmental prevention programs in at-risk populations on non-health outcomes in adolescence

    Matthew Manning;Ross Homel;Christine Ann Smith

  • Making licensed venues safer for patrons: what environmental factors should be the focus of interventions?

    Ross Homel;Russell Carvolth;Marge Hauritz;Gillian Barbara McIlwain

  • The Long-term Effects of Random Breath Testing in Four Australian States: A Time Series Analysis

    J Henstridge;Ross Homel;P Mackay

  • A prospective study investigating the impact of school belonging factors on negative affect in adolescents.

    Ian M. Shochet;Coral L. Smith;Michael J. Furlong;Ross Homel

  • Risk and Resilience: Crime and Violence Prevention in Aboriginal Communities

    Ross Homel;Robyn A Lincoln;Bruce Herd

  • ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND THE WELLBEING OF CHILDREN

    Ross Homel;Ailsa Burns

  • Danger on the Dance Floor: A Study of Interior Design, Crowding and Aggression in nightclubs

    S. Macintyre;Ross Homel

Frequent Co-Authors

Kathryn Graham
Kathryn Graham Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Harold D. Holder
Harold D. Holder Pacific Institute
Robin Room
Robin Room La Trobe University
Ingeborg Rossow
Ingeborg Rossow Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Sally Casswell
Sally Casswell Massey University
Michael Livingston
Michael Livingston La Trobe University
Raul Caetano
Raul Caetano Pacific Institute For Research and Evaluation
Norman Giesbrecht
Norman Giesbrecht Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Joel W. Grube
Joel W. Grube Pacific Institute
John W. Toumbourou
John W. Toumbourou Deakin University

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