Brandon C. Welsh is an Associate Professor in the College of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University, Senior Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement at Free University in Amsterdam, and a Steering Committee member of the Campbell Collaboration Crime and Justice Group. His research focuses on the prevention of delinquency and crime, with an emphasis on the application of the evidence-based paradigm. Professor Welsh is an author or editor of seven books, including Making Public Places Safer: Surveillance and Crime Prevention (Oxford University Press, 2009), Saving Children from a Life of Crime: Early Risk Factors and Effective Interventions (Oxford University Press, 2007), and Preventing Crime: What Works for Children, Offenders, Victims, and Places (Springer, 2006). He is an author of three Campbell Collaboration systematic reviews. He was recently appointed to the U.S. National Institute of Justice’s Study Group on the Transitions from Juvenile Delinquency to Adult Crime. Previously he was a member of the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s 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. Professor Welsh received his Ph.D. in Criminology from the University of Cambridge in 1999.
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