John M. MacDonald

Research interests

Publications

• Citywide cluster randomized trial to restore blighted vacant land and its effects on violence, crime, and fear

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1718503115

• Neighborhood Interventions to Reduce Violence

  Annual Review of Public Health · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-publhealth-040617-014600

• Effect of Greening Vacant Land on Mental Health of Community-Dwelling Adults

  JAMA Network Open · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2018.0298

• Urban Blight Remediation as a Cost-Beneficial Solution to Firearm Violence

  American Journal of Public Health · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2016.303434

• The Effects of Immigrant Concentration on Changes in Neighborhood Crime Rates

  Journal of Quantitative Criminology · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-012-9176-8

• A Difference-in-Differences Analysis of Health, Safety, and Greening Vacant Urban Space

  American Journal of Epidemiology · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwr273

• Public Safety through Private Action: An Economic Assessment of BIDS

  The Economic Journal · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2011.02419.x

• The Effect of Light Rail Transit on Body Mass Index and Physical Activity

  American Journal of Preventive Medicine · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2010.03.016

• The Effect of Less-Lethal Weapons on Injuries in Police Use-of-Force Events

  American Journal of Public Health · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2009.159616

• Overdispersion and Poisson Regression

  Journal of Quantitative Criminology · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-008-9048-4

• POLICE SUSPICION AND DISCRETIONARY DECISION MAKING DURING CITIZEN STOPS*

  Criminology · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0011-1348.2005.00012.x

• Self-Control, Violent Offending, and Homicide Victimization: Assessing the General Theory of Crime

  Journal of Quantitative Criminology · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-004-1787-2

• The Influence of Delinquen Peers on Delinquency

  Youth & Society · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1177/0044118x04265652

• The Relationship Between Life Satisfaction, Risk-Taking Behaviors, and Youth Violence

  Journal of Interpersonal Violence · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260505278718

• Risk Factors and Behaviors Associated With Adolescent Violence and Aggression

  American Journal of Health Behavior · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.5993/ajhb.26.6.6

• Gender Bias and Juvenile Justice Revisited: A Multiyear Analysis

  Crime & Delinquency · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1177/0011128701047002002

• Police use of force: An analysis of organizational characteristics

  Justice Quarterly · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1080/07418820100094951

Current projects

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