Daniel J. Flannery is the Dr. Semi J. and Ruth Begun Professor and Director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education at the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences. 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 author of several books including Violence in Everyday Life (2006), Wanted on Warrants: The Fugitive Safe Surrender Program (2013), and the upcoming 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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The Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education is the largest research center at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University, managing over 100 grants and contracts annually. The Begun Center has a long record of applied, community-based research, training, advocacy, and technical assistance since 1998. The Center is comprised of approximately 60 professional staff, most with master’s and doctoral degrees from a wide range of disciplines including psychology, education, social work, public health, sociology, anthropology, and criminal justice. Begun Center researchers are nationally recognized scholars whose publications are well-cited in research on exposure to violence and victimization, mental health and trauma, criminal justice system involvement, school based violence prevention, fatal and non-fatal overdose, and youth development. The team has extensive experience in county, state, and federally funded research and evaluation projects, including large-scale multi-state and multi-county designs.
Research Information
Recent Funding
Recent Grants
Enhanced Data for Improved Substance Use Surveillance, Prevention and Recovery on Reentry in Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Evaluation Principal Investigator
U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance (with the Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services Board of Cuyahoga County)
$735,000
2022–2025
Overdose Data to Action (OD2A)
Evaluation Principal Investigator
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
$2,935,470
2019–2024
Detection Reporting and Intervention of Violent Extremism in Rural and Suburban Communities (DRIVERS)
Principal Investigator
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
$530,000
2021–2024
Post-doctoral fellowship in trauma and mental health
Principal Investigator
The Begun Foundation
$320,000
2019–2025
Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health Center of Excellence
Co-Investigator
Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (OhioMHAS)
$6,000,000
2021–2025
Substance Use Disorders Center of Excellence (COE)
Co-Investigator
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA) through Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (OhioMHAS)
$6,000,000
2023–2025
Innovative Prosecutions
Principal Investigator
U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance
(with Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office)
$100,000
2021–2023
Operation and Program Support for the Begun Center for Violence Prevention, Research and Education
Principal Investigator
The Begun Foundation
$1,550,000
2015–2024
Data Coordination and Analysis of Requirements for Settlement
Agreement with the US. Department of Justice on Police Use of Force and Misconduct
Principal Investigator
City of Cleveland Division of Policing
$1,750,000
2017–2024
Fugitive Safe Surrender
Principal Investigator
Miller Foundation
$100,000
2012–2015
Cleveland Foundation’s My Community My Commitment (MyCom)
Principal Investigator
Cleveland Foundation
$169,963
2012–2013
Cuyahoga County DJA in Collaboration with Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Court Felony
Drug Court Project
Principal Investigator
Cuyahoga County
$195,000
2011–2014
Offender Reentry Program for Juveniles
Principal Investigator
Catholic Charities Services
$142,020
2011–2013
Cuyahoga County Tapestry System of Care & Youth and Family Community Partnership
Principal Investigator
Cuyahoga County
$425,000
2011–2012
Family and Children First Council’s My Community My Commitment Project (MyCom)
Principal Investigator
Cuyahoga County
$100,000
2011–2012
Second Chance Act: A Demonstration Project for Adult Offender Reentry
Principal Investigator
Cuyahoga County
$75,000
2011–2012
Cleveland Foundation’s My Community My Commitment (MyCom)
Principal Investigator
Cleveland Foundation
$169,968
2011–2012
Children Exposed to Violence
Principal Investigator
Cuyahoga County
$66,721
2011–2012
Publications
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
Education
Additional Information
Concentration
- Children, Youth and Families
In the News
Cleveland is investing more than ever in violence prevention. Will it be enough?
July 13, 2023
When a student is shot and killed, Cleveland schools' mental health team springs into action
July 10, 2023
CWRU names Daniel J. Flannery a Distinguished University Professor, its highest honor
April 24, 2023
What comes next legally after Jayland Walker grand jury decision? CWRU expert discusses
April 21, 2023
Teen suspect fled after two administrators shot at Denver high school
March 29, 2023
Cuyahoga County sees surge in children killed, children charged with murder
March 14, 2023
Cuyahoga County seeing historic rate of juveniles involved in homicides
March 13, 2023
Disarming gun violence
January 03, 2023
Student misbehavior on the rise nationally and locally, including Akron Public Schools
December 28, 2022
Cuyahoga County tops 200 homicides for the third consecutive year, for first time in 40 years
December 27, 2022
The struggle to address serious student misbehavior in Akron schools
December 21, 2022
Most Ohioans do not support state gun laws, polls show
December 13, 2022
Genealogical DNA leads to arrest of 72-year-old man for rape of 9-year-old in 1997
December 09, 2022
Monitoring your kids online
November 16, 2022
Akron faith and community leaders write letter to police chief objecting to reinstatement of 8 officers who fatally shot Jayland Walker
October 26, 2022
The wait for mental health services in Ohio is growing longer
October 24, 2022
Gun ownership in the Black community, among women on the rise, researchers say
October 19, 2022
8 Akron police officers involved in Walker shooting back at work, some residents call it a 'slap in the face'
October 17, 2022
Breaking down why 8 Akron police officers involved in Jayland Walker fatal shooting are back at work
October 13, 2022
Dan Flannery to discuss bullying at American Academy of Pediatrics Conference
October 05, 2022
Dan Flannery shares suggestions for preventing gun violence in OpEd for Crain’s Cleveland Business
September 29, 2022
2021 saw record fatal ODs, gun deaths, car crashes in Ohio over 15 years, data shows
September 28, 2022
A violent summer for Cleveland teens
September 06, 2022
Dan Flannery talks about the 'forgotten mass shooting' with the Los Angeles Times
July 19, 2022
Dan Flannery writes about developing effective gun violence prevention plans
July 14, 2022
Begun Center’s Daniel Flannery writes about Ohio’s juvenile justice system
July 08, 2022
Gun control: Experts discuss first new federal law in decades
June 30, 2022
Local experts discuss mental toll of mass shootings and how to discuss with children
June 21, 2022
Daniel Flannery presents on the necessity of sexual assault kit testing at national conference
June 17, 2022
Experts warn about local anti-government, extremist groups in Ohio
June 14, 2022
What is the safe surrender program? Ohio governor’s warrant task force members discuss
June 12, 2022
Is the plague of mass school shootings in the U.S. here to stay?
June 08, 2022
These states have the highest rates of gun violence and deaths
June 07, 2022
H.R. 8 mandates gun background checks. Why is it stuck in the Senate?
June 03, 2022
The unrelenting crisis
May 31, 2022
How to cope with the latest school shooting if you're a parent
May 27, 2022
19 students and 2 adults killed in mass shooting at Texas elementary school: the latest
May 25, 2022
Experts say mass shootings pose mental health impacts for many Americans
May 23, 2022
Professor Dan Flannery discusses increases in gun violence, domestic terrorism
May 16, 2022
Guns surpass motor vehicles as top cause of death for U.S. children: What parents should know
April 29, 2022
Proposed bill would prohibit charging domestic violence victims for calling 911
April 28, 2022
Guns leading cause of child death in 2020
April 27, 2022
Begun Center’s Dan Flannery participates in Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services’ webinar
April 14, 2022
Number of juveniles charged with murder in Cleveland, its suburbs spiked in recent years
March 31, 2022
Daniel J. Flannery presents to Cuyahoga County Opiate Task Force
March 14, 2022
Carjackings on the rise in Northeast Ohio
February 25, 2022
Suburban Cleveland homicides rose in 2021, data shows
January 11, 2022
Fentanyl now the biggest killer of Americans 18 to 45 years old
January 5, 2022
Why rape victims are so often left to solve their own cases
February 12, 2021
Study: Reduce crime by focusing efforts on rapists
January 6, 2020
Events
Fall Convocation 2023
September 7, 2023
Critical Conversation #6: Opioid Addiction
February 24, 2023
Critical Conversation #4: Gun Violence & the Second Amendment
December 2, 2022