GRANTS & PROJECTS

Current Funded Projects

  • Co-Investigator, CYFAR USDA Simple Suppers Scale Up. USDA/NIFA, 9/1/18-8/31/22 (Carolyn Gunther, PI)
  • Principal Investigator, BETHA foundation. Engineering Design to Enhance Urban GEMS. $14,912. 8/1/18-7/31/20.
  • Principal Investigator, OSU Office of Outreach and Engagement Connect and Collaborate funding mechanism. Planting Urban GEMS in South Columbus. $39,800 5/15/17- 5/14/19.
  • Principal Investigator, Aetna Foundation, Urban GEMS Youth Work. Aetna Foundation. $100,000. 9/1/2016-5/31/2019.
  • Principal Investigator, CYFAR USDA, Urban G.E.M.S. (Grow fresh, Eat fresh, Market fresh, and Sustain healthy communities). USDA/NIFA $660,000. 9/1/15-8/31/20.

Completed Projects

  • Mediating Disputes. Funded by the OSU International Poverty Solutions Collaborative. 2012. Wilkinson (PI)
  • CeaseFire Columbus anti-gun violence initiative. Office of Criminal Justice Services. Project Safe Neighborhoods. U.S. Department of Justice. 3/1/12-2/28/13. Wilkinson (PI)
  • Community Safety Institute (CSI) Knowledge and Resource Center funded by the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services, ARRA fundes [$25,040]. 2010. Wilkinson (PI)
  • The Columbus Violence Prevention Collaborative Phase II (Identifying Violent Hot Spots) funded by the OSU College of Education and Human Ecology Interdisplinary Seed grant program [$25,000] 2010. Wilkinson and Moore (PIs)
  • The Columbus Violence Prevention Collabortaive Phase III (Smart Prevention Grid: Building a Network of Support and Capacity) funded by the OSU Office of Outreach and Engagement Impact Grant [$50,000] 6/1/2010-7/1/2011. Wilkinson and Moore (PIs)
  • The Columbus Violence Prevention Collaborative Phase I (Building Community Capacity Survey) funded by the OSU Criminal Justice Research Center  [$20,000] 2008-2009. (info coming soon)
  • Urban Youth Gun Violence The New York City Youth Violence Study, a study of the life histories of young violent offenders. Principal Investigator, Event Dynamics and the Role of Third Parties in Youth Violence. Funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice. $259,756. 6/2006-5/2009 IJ-CX-0004. Event Dynamics and the Role of Third Parties in Youth Violence. Final Report submitted to the U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice. Grant #: 2006-IJ-CX-0004. Columbus, Ohio. May 28. 230+ pages.  Final report
  • Publications:
  • Wilkinson, D. L. (2010). An Emergent Situational and Transactional Theory of Urban Youth Violence In Oxford Handbook on Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice. Edited by Feld, B. & Bishop, D. Cambridge: Oxford University Press. (forthcoming)
  • Co-offending and the social embeddedness of gun use €” Wilkinson, D.L., McBryde, M.S.*, Williams, B.*, Bloom, S.* and Bell, K.* (2009). Peers and gun use among urban adolescent males: An examination of social embeddedness. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 25(1): 20-44.
  • An empirical examination of Donald Black’s Theory of Crime as Self-Help €” Wilkinson, Deanna L., Beaty, Chauncey,* and Lurry Regina M.* (2009). Youth Violence-Crime or Self-Help?: Marginalized Urban Males Perspectives on the Limited Efficacy of Criminal Justice System to Stop Youth Violence. The Annals of the American Academy of Political & Social Science. Volume 623 May: 25-38.
  • Wilkinson, D.L. and Carr, P.J. (2008). Violent Youths’ Responses to High Levels of Exposure to Community Violence: What Violent Events Reveal about Youth Violence. Journal of Community Psychology. 36: 1026-1051.
  • Collective efficacy, informal social control, and social disorganization theory: Wilkinson, D.L. (2007). Local Social Ties and Willingness to Intervene: Textured Views among Violent Urban Youth of Neighborhood Social Control Dynamics and Situations. Justice Quarterly. 24(2): 185-220.
  • The Social Contagion of Violence: Fagan, J., Wilkinson, D.L., and Davies, G. (2007). Social Contagion of Violence. In Flannery, D., Vazsonyi, A., & Waldman, I. (eds.). The Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior and Aggression. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 688-723. 052184567Xc36_p688-724.pdf

Injury & Victimization Among Youth

    • The Philadelphia Youth Injury Study, Principal Investigator, Evaluating the Violence Prevention Initiative Healthcare Connection. Funded by the William Penn Foundation. $1,115,432. 2/1/01-12/31/05.
    • Publication  Wilkinson, D.L., Kurtz, E.M., Lane, P., and Fein, J. The Emergency Department Approach to Violently Injured Patient Care: A Regional Survey. Injury Prevention. Aug 2005; 11: 206 – 208.
    • Final Report
  • Policing
    • The Aurora-Joliet Neighborhood Oriented Policing study. Co-Principal Investigator, Aurora-Joliet Neighborhood-Oriented Policing and Problem Solving Demonstration Project: A Six Year Follow-up Evaluation.1991-1998 (PI Dennis Rosenbaum).
      • Funded by the National Institute of Justice #95-IJ-CX-0068 and the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA).
    • Publications: Rosenbaum, D.P., and Wilkinson, D.L. (2004). Can Police Adapt? Tracking the Effects of Organizational Reform Over Six Years. In Community Policing: Can it Work? Edited by Wesley Skogan. Wadsworth Publishing. p. 79-108.
    • Rosenbaum, D.P., Yeh, S., and Wilkinson, D.L. (1994). Estimating the Effects of Community Policing Reform on Police Officers. Crime and Delinquency, 40 (3): 331-353.
    • Wilkinson, D.L. and Rosenbaum, D.P., (1994). The Effect of Organizational Structure on Community Policing: A Comparison of Two Cities. In Rosenbaum, D.P. (editor). The Challenge of Community Policing: Testing the Promises. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications. p. 110-126.
  • Community Prevention
    • Community Responses to Drug Abuse (CRDA) Evaluation

Completed Research Projects 1994-1998

Project Director/Co-Investigator, Situational Contexts of Gun Use among Young Males in the Inner City: Risk Factors and Social Processes.

Center for Violence Research and Prevention, Columbia University (P.I. Jeffrey Fagan).

  • Funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention R49-CCR211614, the National Institute of Justice #96-IJ-CX-0021, the National Science Foundation #SBR 9515327, and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.

Related Publications

  • Wilkinson, D.L. (2003). Guns, Violence, and Identity among African American and Latino Youth. New York: LFB Scholarly Publishing, LLC. Wilkinson_ISBN1-59332-009-4.pdf
  • Wilkinson, D.L. (2001). Violent Events and Social Identity: Specifying the Relationship between Respect and Masculinity in Inner City Youth Violence. In Sociological Studies of Children and Youth. Volume 8. Edited by David Kinney. Stanford, CT: Elsevier Science Inc. p.231-265.
  • Wilkinson, D.L., and Fagan, J. (2001). A Theory of Violent Events. In Advances in Criminological Theory Volume 9: The Process and Structure of Crime: Criminal Events and Crime Analysis). Edited by Robert F. Meier, Leslie W. Kennedy, and Vincent F. Sacco. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction. p.169-196.
  • Wilkinson, D.L., and Fagan, J. (2001). “What We Know about Gun Use among Adolescents? Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review. Volume 4(2): 109-132.
  • Fagan, J.A. and Wilkinson, D.L. (1998). Guns, Youth Violence and Social Identity in Inner Cities. In Crime and Justice: Annual Review of Research. Volume 24: 105-188. Edited by M. Tonry and M. Moore. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Fagan, J.A. and Wilkinson, D.L. (1998). The Social Contexts and Functions of Adolescent Violence. In Violence in American Schools. Edited by Delbert S. Elliott, Beatrix A. Hamburg, and Kirk Williams. Cambridge University Press. p. 55-93.
  • Fagan, J.A. and Wilkinson, D.L. (1997). Firearms and Youth Violence. In Handbook of Antisocial Behavior. Edited by D. Stoff, J. Belinger and J. Maser, New York: Wiley. p. 551-567.
  • Wilkinson, D.L. and Fagan, J.A. (1996). The Role of Firearms in Violence ‘Scripts’: The Dynamics of Gun Events Among Adolescent Males. Law and Contemporary Problems, 59 (1): 55-90. Winter.