Faculty / Wayne Welsh

Dr. Welsh has conducted research in two broad areas: (1) applications of organizational theory to criminal justice and examinations of organizational change, and (2) theories of violent behavior and intervention/prevention programs. His recent research has focused on prison-based drug treatment, school violence and community-based delinquency prevention.

Undergraduate courses he has taught include Introduction to Criminal Justice; Violence, Crime and Justice; Environmental Criminology; and Planned Change in Criminal Justice. Graduate courses include Violence, Crime, and Aggression; Criminal Justice Organizations: Structure, Process, and Change; and Rehabilitation, Reentry and Recidivism.

In April, 2009, Dr. Welsh was invited by Deputy Mayor Everett A. Gillison to sit on the City of Philadelphia’s Reentry Task Force. Mayor Nutter will chair the Task Force, which will be charged with developing a strategic plan for reentry in the City of Philadelphia.
 

Dr. Welsh has also been invited by Judge Kevin Dougherty, Administrative Judge of Philadelphia Family Court, to sit on the Children’s Roundtable, a monthly meeting of city juvenile justice officials and stakeholders charged with improving outcomes for youth who come into contact with Philadelphia’s juvenile justice and human services systems.

Selected Publications

2008
Welsh, W.N., & Harris, P.W. Criminal Justice Policy and Planning (3rd ed). Cincinnati: LexisNexis, Anderson Publishing Co.

Riedel, M., & Welsh, W.N. Criminal Violence: Patterns, Causes, and Prevention (2nd ed). New York: Oxford University Press.

Welsh, W.N., & McGrain, P.N. Predictors of therapeutic engagement in prison-based drug treatment. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 96, 271–280.

Kelly, C.E., & Welsh, W.N. The predictive validity of the level of service inventory-revised for drug-involved offenders. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 35, 819-831.

2007

Welsh, W.N. A multi-site evaluation of prison-based TC drug treatment. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 34, 1481-1498.

Welsh, W.N., McGrain, P., Salamatin, N., & Zajac, G. Effects of prison drug treatment on inmate misconduct: A repeated measures analysis. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 34, 600-615.

Welsh, W.N. The need for a comprehensive approach to program planning, development, and evaluation. Criminology and Public Policy, 5, 603-614.

2006
Welsh, W.N. “The Need for a Comprehensive Approach to Program Planning, Development, and Evaluation.” Criminology and Public Policy 5:603-614.

2005
Welsh, W.N. and P.W. Harris, Criminal Justice Policy and Planning (2nd ed). Cincinnati: LexisNexis, Anderson Publishing Co.