Daniel J. Flannery is the Semi J. and Ruth Begun Professor and director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education. His research has been published in a variety of scientific outlets including The New England Journal of Medicine, Developmental Psychology, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Criminology and Public Policy. He is also the author of several books including Violence in Everyday Life (2006), Wanted on Warrants: The Fugitive Safe Surrender Program (2013), and the Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior and Aggression (2nd edition, 2018).
His primary areas of research are in youth violence prevention, the link between violence and mental health, and community-based program evaluation.
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Why I Teach
I teach because it is important to bring what is happening in the community, with respect to education and awareness, practice and policy, into the classroom. Students need not only to learn about theory and principles of their discipline, but they need exposed to current events and how being in a school of social work matters in addressing some of the most complex social issues we face. This includes violence in all of its forms and related morbidities, like substance use and mental health, among others.
Why I Chose This Profession
As a clinical-child psychologist by training I believe in prevention and working with children and families as a way to make a difference over the long-term. I also believe that in our profession we are in a position to bring information and evidence to those making everyday decisions of best practice and policy that can change lives in the short and long-term. What better position can one be in to make a difference?
Publications
Lovell, R., Collins, C., McGuire, M., Overman, L., Luminais, M., & Flannery, D.J. (2019). Understanding intimate partner sexual assaults: findings from sexual assault kits. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma, 28, 8-24. doi: 10.1080/10926771.2018.1494234.
Bass, P., Scholer, S., Flannery, D.J., & Lichenstein, R. (2019, June). How to identify and treat bullying. Contemporary Pediatrics, 36 (6), 30-34. Invited. https://www.contemporarypediatrics.com/pediatrics/how-identify-and-treat-bullying.
Flannery, D.J., Tossone, K., Kretschmar, J., Butcher, F., & Singer, M.I. (2019). Examination of a new brief screener to measure trauma symptoms and violence exposure among young children. Violence and Victims, 34 (5), 733-751. doi: 10.1891/0886-6708.VV-D-17-00214. PubMed PMID: 31575812.
Baughman, M., Tossone, K., Singer, M.I., & Flannery, D.J. (2019). Evaluation of treatment and other factors that lead to drug court success, substance use reduction, and mental health symptomatology reduction over time. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Flannery 9 Comparative Criminology, 63(2), 257-275. Doi: 10.1177/0306624X18789832. PubMed PMID: 30058416.
Butcher, F., Tossone, K., Kishna, M., Kretchmar, J., & Flannery, D. J. (2019). Polyvictimization across time in juvenile justice-involved youth receiving behavioral health treatment. Victims and Offenders, 15(1), 22-42. doi.org/10.1080/15564886.2019.1680467.
Lovell, R., Huang, W., Overman, L., McGuire, M., & Flannery. D.J., (2020). Offending Histories and Typologies of Suspected Sexual Offenders Identified via Untested Sexual Assault Kits. Criminal Justice and Behavior. doi: 101177/0093854819896385.
Timmons-Mitchell, J., & Flannery, D.J. (2020). What Pediatricians should know and do about cyberbullying. Pediatrics in Review, 41(7, July), 373-375. Doi.org/10.1542/pir.2019- 0165. PubMed PMID: 32611804. Invited.
Lovell, R., Williamson, A., Dover, T., Keel, T., & Flannery, D.J. (2020, May). Identifying serial sexual offenders through cold cases. Law Enforcement Bulletin. Available at leb.fbi.gov.
Flannery, D.J., Gilson, T. Bhullar, M., & Noriega, I. (2020, August). Research in Brief: Carfentanil-- A fourth wave of fatal overdoses. Police Chief Magazine, International Association of Chiefs of Police. https://www.policechiefmagazine.org/rib-carfentanil-fourth-wave-fataloverdose/?ref=f0577666e90dcbffe304ff6867daa47b.
Lovell, R., Overman, L., Huang, J., & Flannery, D.J. (2020). The bureaucratic burden of identifying your rapist and remaining “cooperative”: What the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative tells us about sexual assault case attrition and outcomes. American Journal of Criminal Justice. doi: 10.1007/s12103-020-09573-x.
Flannery, D.J., Fox, J.A., Wallace, L.N., Mulvey, E., & Modzeleski, W. (2021). Guns, school shooters and school safety: What we know and directions for change. School Psychology Review. Doi.org/10.1080/2372966X.2020.1846458. Invited.
Lovell, R., Singer, M., Flannery, D.J., & McGuire, M. (2021). The Case for ‘Investigate All’: Assessing the Cost-Effectiveness of Investigating No CODIS Hit Cases in a Sexual Assault Kit Initiative. Journal of Forensic Sciences. Doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.14686. PubMed PMID: 33650102.
Lovell, R., McGuire, M., Lorincz-Comi, N., Overman, L., Dover, T., & Flannery, D.J. (2022). Examining walking-waiting sexual assaults from previously untested sexual assault kits: The intersection of stranger and outdoor sexual assaults. Victims and Offenders, 1-23. Doi: 10.1080/15564886.2022.2100544.
Lovell, R., Klingenstein, J., Du, J., Overman, L., Sabo, D., Ye, X., & Flannery, D.J. (2023). Using machine learning to assess rape reports: Sentiment analysis detection of officers’ “signaling” about victims’ credibility. Journal of Criminal Justice. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2023.102106.
Lovell, R., Klingenstein, J., Du, J., Overman, L., Sabo, D., Ye, X., & Flannery, D.J. (2023). Using machine learning to assess rape reports: “Signaling” words about victims’ credibility that predict investigative and prosecutorial outcomes. Journal of Criminal Justice. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2023.102107.
Flannery 10 Noriega, I., Bhullar, M., Gilson, T., Flannery, D.J., Deo, V., & Fulton, S. (2023). A case study for local data surveillance in opioid overdose fatalities in Cuyahoga County, Ohio 2016-2020. Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dadr.2023.100187.
Flannery, D.J., Noriega, I., Pittman, S., Singer, M., Kretschmar, J., & Butcher, F. (2024). Violence Exposure and Trauma Screener for Youth (VETSY). Child Abuse & Neglect, 153. Doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.106843.
Deo, V.S., Bhullar, M., Gilson, T., Flannery, D.J., & Fulton, S. (2024). The need to rethink harm reduction for people using drugs alone to reduce overdose fatalities. Substance Use and Misuse. https://doi: 10.1080/10826084.2023.2280534.
McMaster, R., Masarweh-Zawahri, L., Flynn, K., Deo, V., & Flannery, D.J. (in press). Drug overdose death among residents of urban census tracts: How granular geographical analyses uncover socioenvironmental correlates in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Journal of Urban Health. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-024-00939-8.