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Case Western Reserve University was honored at the Positive Education Program (PEP) Rally 4 Kids annual event on May 15. Multiple centers at the university were recognized for their various contributions to PEP’s work serving children in the community with mental health and behavioral…

The Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education will co-sponsor “Just Justice: A Discussion on Juvenile Justice Reform” today (March 28) from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Shaker Heights Youth Center (17300 Van Aken Blvd.). Jeff Kretschmar, managing director of the Begun Center, and Ayesha…

Researchers at the Mandel School awarded $715,000 grant to examine thousands of police interviews with sexual assault victims Police officers may use “signaling” language in sexual assault reports—occasionally dropping hints about the validity of the victim’s claims—that possibly influences an…

Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education Senior Research Associate Rachel Lovell and Research Assistant Joanna Klingenstein, and Liuhong Yang, a PhD student at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School for Applied Social Sciences, recently had an article published titled “Testing…

Jeff Kretschmar Jeff Kretschmar, managing director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, recently co-authored a piece for the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange with Summit County Judge Linda Tucci Teodosio. Titled “How Ohio’s Restore Court Focuses on Helping Sex…

In light of Anti-Bullying Week 2018, Jane Timmons-Mitchell and Daniel Flannery, senior research associate and director at the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, respectively, co-authored a blog post for Cambridge University Press on bullying, its effects and what people…

The Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education is partnering with RAHAB Ministries in Akron to provide clothes for 12- to- 20-year-old girls and young women who have experienced human trafficking. RAHAB Ministries provides assistance and mentoring to child survivors of human…

Rachel Lovell, senior research associate at the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, briefed the U.S. Congress about her work on untested sexual assault kits as part of the Division on Women and Crime (DWC) of the American Society of Criminology. At the Congressional…

Join the Mandel School of Applied Sciences Student-Alumni Network and the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education for a screening and discussion of I Am Evidence Wednesday, Oct. 24, at 6:30 p.m. in the Mandel School’s Noble Commons. The film, produced by the Joyful Heart…

In a recent study, a team of experts from the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences found medication-assisted treatment use didn’t increase the odds of drug court graduation, but social supports and age…