Daniel J. Flannery, PhD

Recent Publications

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. 

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.

Lovell, R., McGuire, M., Lorincz-Comi, N., Overman, L., Dover, T., and Flannery, D.J. (in press). Examining walking-waiting sexual assaults from previously untested sexual assault kits:  The intersection of stranger and outdoor sexual assaults.  Victims and Offenders. 

Lovell, R., Luminais, M., Flannery, D.J., Overman, L., Huang, D., Walker, T., Clark, D.R. (2017). Offending patterns for serial sex offenders identified via the DNA testing of previously unsubmitted sexual assault kits. Journal of Criminal Justice (52) 68-78.

Butcher, F., Holmes, M.R., Kretschmar, J., & Flannery, D.J. (2016). Polyvictimization across social contexts: Home, school, and neighborhood violence exposure. Criminal Justice and Behavior (43) 12.

Galanek, J., Duda, J., Flannery, D.J., Kretschmar, J., & Butcher, F. (2016). Fugitive Safe Surrender: A qualitative analysis of participant’s reasons for surrender and anticipated outcomes to inform program evaluation. Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice and Criminology, 4, 161-187.

Flannery, D.J., Todres, J., Bradshaw, C. et al. (2016). Bullying prevention: A summary of the report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Prevention Science. 2016 Nov;17(8):1044-1053.

Kretschmar, J., Tossone, K., Butcher, F., & Flannery, D.J. (2016). Patterns of poly victimization in a sample of at-risk youth. Journal of Child Abuse and Trauma.

Timmons-Mitchell, J.T., Levesque, D., Harris, L., Flannery, D.J., & Falcone, T. (2016). Pilot test of StandUp, an online school-based bullying prevention program. Children and Schools, 38, 71-79.

Flannery, D., & Farrell, A. (2016). "Evaluating school-based violence prevention programs: Challenges and opportunities now and into the future." In Mayer, M., & Jimerson, S. (Eds.). School safety and violence prevention: Science, Practice and Policy Driving Change. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Lovell, R., Flannery, D., & Luminais, M. (2016). "Lessons learned: Serial sex offenders identified from backlogged sexual assault kits (SAKs)." In Vazsonyi, A., Flannery, D., & DeLisi, M. (Eds.). The Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior and Aggression (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Vazsonyi, A., Flannery, D., & DeLisi, M. (2016). "New directions in research on violence: Bridging science, practice and policy." In Vazsonyi, A., Flannery, D., & DeLisi, M. (Eds.). The Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior and Aggression (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Kretschmar, J., Butcher, F., Flannery, D. J., & Singer, M. (2016). Diverting juvenile justice-involved youth with behavioral health issues from detention: Preliminary findings from Ohio’s Behavioral Health Juvenile Justice (BHJJ) initiative. Criminal Justice Policy Review, 27, 302-325.

Baughman Sladky, M., Hussey, D., Flannery, D., Jefferis, E. (2015). "Adolescent delinquency and violent behavior." In T. P. Gullotta, R. W. Plant, M. A. Evans (Eds.). Handbook of Adolescent Behavioral Problems: Evidence-Based Approaches to Prevention and Treatment, 2nd edition (pp. 445-471). New York: Springer Press.

Butcher, F., Galanek, J., Kretschmar, J., & Flannery, D.J. (2015). The impact of neighborhood disorganization on neighborhood exposure to violence, trauma symptoms and social relationships among at-risk youth. Social Science and Medicine, 146, 300-306.

Butcher, F., Kretschmar, J., Singer, M., & Flannery, D.J. (2015). Confirmatory factor analysis of the Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children in an at-risk sample of youth. Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research, 6 (2), 251-268.

Singer, M.I., Flannery, D.J., Kretschmar, J., and Bartholomew, J. (2015). Brief report: A county-wide survey of residents’ violence exposure. Journal of Psychiatry, 18, 14-16.

Flannery, D.J., & Singer, M.I. (2014). The Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education at Case Western Reserve University. Research on Social Work Practice. 25 (2) 278-85.

Kretschmar, J., Butcher, F., & Flannery, D. (2014).  "The impact of bullying and cyberbullying on depression and suicidality." In Van Dulmen, M., Bossarte, R. & Swahn, M. (Eds.),  Developmental and Public Health Perspectives on Suicide Prevention: An Integrated Approach.  SkiKnow Press.

Kretschmar, J., Butcher, F., & Flannery, D. (2014). "Aspects of bullying and its relationship to suicide." In Van Dulmen, M., Bossarte, R. & Swahn, M. (Eds). Developmental and Public Health Perspectives on Suicide Prevention: An Integrated Approach, pp.58-83. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press.

Butcher, F., Kretschmar, J., Lin, Y., Flannery, D.J., & Singer, M.I. (2014). Analysis of the validity scales in the Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children. Research on Social Work Practice, 24, 695-704.

Flannery, D.J., van Dulmen, M.H., & Mata, A. (2013).  "Developmental trajectories of exposure to violence."  In M.J. Delisi & K. Beaver (Eds.),  The life-Course of Antisocial Behavior:  Aggression to Delinquency to Crime.  Boston, MA:  Jones & Bartlett.

Kretschmar, J.M., Butcher, F., & Flannery, D. (2013).  An evaluation of the behavioral health/juvenile justice (BHJJ) initiative.  Behavioral Health in Ohio—Current Research Trends, 1(2), 18-30.

Brunell, A., Davis, M., Schley, D., Eng, A., Van Dulmen, M., Wester, K., & Flannery, D. (2013).  A new measure of interpersonal exploitativeness. Frontiers in Personality Science and Individual Differences. 2013 May 29;4:299.

Flannery, D.J., Modzeleski, W., & Kretschmar, J. (2013).  Violence and school shootings. Invited Paper. Current Psychiatry Reports, 15, 331-337.

OpEds

Dan Flannery shares suggestions for preventing gun violence
Crain’s Cleveland Business; September 29, 2022

Testing of backlogged rape evidence leads to hundreds of convictions
The Conversation; November 13, 2016

Here’s how witnessing violence harms children’s mental health
The Conversation; March 28, 2016

Police are first social responders; let’s help them work with citizens
St. Louis Post; December 23, 2014

Suicide risk can help us understand school shootings
CNN; December 24, 2012

Books

Preventing Bullying Through Science, Policy, and Practice

Wanted on Warrants: The Fugitive Safe Surrender Program 

The Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior and Aggression

Violence and Mental Health in Everyday Life

Youth Violence: Prevention, Intervention, and Social Policy