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Staff from Cleveland’s Karamu House—the oldest producing African American theatre in the nation—will join in conversation with the Center for Civic Engagement & Learning’s (CCEL) Executive Council and Adiah Bailey, president of CWRU Black Student Union, to reflect on the legacy of Juneteenth and the...

A new article by Rachel Lovell​, Laura Overman​, Jeff Huang and Dan Flannery explores the bureaucratic burden placed on victims to identify who sexually assaulted them and to remain engaged in an often harmful process and investigative and judicial system. Implications suggest this burden could be e...

Bobbi Beale, senior consultant and trainer with the Center for Innovative Practices, has started a podcast she co-hosts with Prescott College professor Maurie Lung. In “Pondering Life Adventures,” the two seasoned mental health professionals reflect on life while integrating their experiences in a...

Misty Luminais, Rachel Lovell, Maggie McGuire, Joanna Klingenstein, Angela Kavadas and Laura Overman, all researchers at the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, wrote a piece about the impact of victim advocacy integration on cold case investigations by the Cuyahoga County S...

Researchers at the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education contributed to a book titled Bullying in Schools by writing chapters for the piece. Daniel Flannery, director of Begun Center, and Dalhee Yoon, a 2020 PhD graduate from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applie...

Daniel Flannery, director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, recently appeared on The Conversationalist Podcast's mental health series. Flannery discussed how mental health relates to gun violence in the U.S., and the steps, if any, being taken to prevent it. He spo...

Jane Timmons-Mitchell, senior research associate at the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, collaborated with other authors to publish a piece titled “Digital conversations about suicide among teenagers and adults with epilepsy: A big-data, machine learning analysis”. The s...

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 as...

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 M...

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 Sympt...