Violence Prevention | Crime Analysis & Public Policy
My work examines how behavioral warning signs are distributed and communicated across systems, how fragmentation prevents those signals from converging into a complete understanding of risk, and how this limits effective threat assessment and early intervention in school-based violence.
Graduate Research – Boston University
Beyond Individual Grievances: Converging Developmental Vulnerabilities and Environmental Stressors in School Violence (37 pages)
This work presents an original convergence-based framework integrating developmental, environmental, and behavioral factors in school violence. Existing research largely examines these risk factors in isolation; this paper demonstrates how they interact and accumulate over time, creating pathways toward violence that are often missed by fragmented systems.
Fragmentation and Convergence Across Systems: A Research Design for Examining Information Gaps in Threat Assessment and School-Based Violence
In Progress
Fragmentation and Convergence Across Systems: How Distributed Warning Signs Limit Threat Assessment in School-Based Violence
In Progress
Course-Based Research and Policy Analysis
Early Adolescent Social Exclusion and Its Contribution to Delinquency and School-Based Violence Risk (10 pages)
This work presents a theory-informed policy framework examining early adolescent social exclusion as a developmental risk factor for delinquency and school-based violence.
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