Brandon
Welsh
Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Brandon Welsh in the Press
Ottawa Citizen
Will CCTV cameras in the ByWard Market help curb violent crime? Hardly
The meta-analysis is by Brandon Welsh, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University in Boston, and David Farrington of Cambridge University, publishing in a journal called Criminology and Public Policy.
Freakonomics
When helping hurts
WELSH: Long before Father Greg Boyle and Homeboy Industries, and all the others like them, there was a civic-minded Harvard physician named Richard Clarke Cabot. That’s Brandon Welsh, a criminologist at Northeastern University. WELSH: For Bostonians: he was a member of the Cabot family. The Cabots and the Lodges, very distinguished family …
New York’s LED streetlights: A crime deterrent to some, a nuisance to others
Research differs on whether better lighting leads to a reduction in crime, though a 2007 meta-analysis of 13 cities around the world, including eight in the United States, showed an overall reduction. “I believe in New York, you would expect to see a positive result,” said Brandon Welsh, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University […]
