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On Tuesday, June 16, Case Western Reserve University will go All In Together for our eighth annual Day of Giving—with this year’s efforts focused on the university’s COVID-19 research and to support our students as they face additional transitions because of the coronavirus. The Jack, Joseph and…

Rachel Lovell, research assistant professor at the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, and Daniel Flannery, the Semi J. and Ruth W. Begun Professor at the Mandel School and director of the Begun Center, collaborated with other experts on a piece about investigating sexual…

Fred Butcher, senior associate research professor at the Begun Center, and Jeff Kretschmar, managing director of the Begun Center, have co-authored an article featured in an issue of Juvenile Justice Information Exchange. Butcher’s and Kretschmar’s article is titled “How Juvenile Justice Systems…

A research article co-authored by Renne Dragomir, research associate at Case Western Reserve University’s Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, was published to Springer publication Contemporary Family Therapy. In the article, titled “A Dyadic Examination of Individual…

Rachel Lovell, research assistant professor at the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, testified before the Ohio State Judiciary Committee on Feb. 20 in favor of Senate Bill 162, which would eliminate the statute of limitation for rape in Ohio. Read her full testimonial…

Dan Flannery, director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, will be the featured speaker in the university’s Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods seminar series talk on Wednesday, Feb. 12, from noon to 1:15 p.m. at the Bioenterprise Building, Room…

Warning: This article contains specific information related to sexual assaults and rapes in the Cleveland area.  Larry McGowan is a sexual-assault offender, identified through the DNA testing of thousands of rape kits in Cleveland. He’s been linked to raping six women—killing one of them—during a…

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine recently appointed Dan Flannery, the Semi J. and Ruth W. Begun Professor and director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, to the new School Safety Working Group. The working group was created as part of the new Ohio School Safety Center. The…

Designed in response to high exposure rates, new screening measure expected to be implemented nationally One in five children in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, are either exposed to, or are victims of, violence and trauma, according to a new study from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied…

Several researchers at the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education co-authored an article in the peer-reviewed journal Victims and Offenders. Their article, published in October, is titled “Poly-Victimization across Time in Juvenile Justice-Involved Youth Receiving Behavioral…