Patricia Campie, PhD

Dr. Patricia Campie is a criminologist whose primary research focuses on reducing violence.  Dr. Campie has evaluated violence prevention and intervention strategies in multiple localities across the nation, including Massachusetts’ Safe and Successful Youth Initiative, a statewide gun violence intervention and promising practice in Crime Solutions. She was Co-P.I. on a nine-year study through the National Institute of Justice to examine root causes of school and community violence in California. In that study, she and colleagues found that community risk and need factors had a greater effect on student safety and academic outcomes than internal school climate supports.  She’s authored global studies on conflict sensitivity and the push and pull factors in common between individuals engaged with groups involved in community-based violence or armed conflict.