Brandon C. Welsh

Brandon C. Welsh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice. He received his Ph.D. in criminology from Cambridge University in 1999. His research interests include the prevention of delinquency and crime and economic analysis of prevention programs. Funded research has included studies on the monetary costs of juvenile offending in urban areas and the role of public health in the prevention of juvenile criminal violence. Dr. Welsh is an author or editor of five books, including Evidence-Based Crime Prevention (Routledge, 2002, with Lawrence Sherman, David Farrington, and Doris MacKenzie). Recent articles have appeared in Criminology & Public Policy, Justice Quarterly, Crime and Justice: A Review of Research, and Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He was as a member of OJJDP’s Study Group on Very Young Offenders and a contributing author to its volume, and has been a consultant to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the British Home Office. Dr. Welsh teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on juvenile delinquency, crime prevention and public policy, international criminal justice and criminology, and policing for crime reduction.