Building protection, support, and opportunity for inner-city youth and their families. Tolan, P.H., Sherrod, L., Gorman-Smith, D., & Henry, D. Mash (Eds.), Behavioral and emotional disorders in adolescents. Interventions for adolescent psychopathology: Linking treatment and prevention. Kamon, J., Tolan, P.H., & Gorman-Smith, D. Resilience in children, families, and communities: Linking theory with practice and policy. Promoting resilience in the inner-city: Families as a venue for protection, support and opportunity. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Sombrano (Eds.), Developmental approaches to prevention of substance abuse and related problems. Gorman-Smith, D., Tolan, P.H., Henry, D., Quintana, E., & Lutovsky, K. Understanding Children and Poverty: The Science and Ecology of Early Development: Oxford University Press. The Oxford Handbook on Crime Prevention, Oxford University Press. Developmental perspective on preventing girls’ antisocial behavior. National Institute of Justice and Centers for Disease Control. Family focused prevention and gang violence. Toward an urban psychology: Research, action, and policy. Sagaert, S., Thomas, V., Gorman-Smith, D., Keita, G., Maton, K., Soriano, F. Chapter 7: Violence Against Children in the Community. Report of the United Nation’s Secretary General’s Study on Violence Against Children. World Report on Violence Against Children.

Programme to Support Pro-Poor Development in South African, The Centre for Social Development in Africa, University of Johannesburg. Family contexts, child support grants and child well-being in South Africa. Patel, L., Knijin, T., Gorman-Smith, D., Hochfeld, T., Isserow, M., Garthe, R., Chiba, I., Moodley, J. American Journal of Community Psychology, DOI: 10.1002/ajcp.12239 Neighborhood concentrated disadvantage and dating violence among urban adolescents: The mediating role of neighborhood social processes. Garthe, R., Gorman-Smith, D., Gregory, J., and Schoeny, M. Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research, 9, 131-157. (2018) Fathers’ criminal behavior and involvement with children: The moderating role of family relationships. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 48, 54-67.Ĭharles, P., Gorman-Smith, D., Schoeny, M., Sudec, L., Tolan, P.H., and Henry, D. Reciprocal effects of positive future expectations to safety, and risk behavior across adolescence. Prince, D.M, Eptstein, M., Nurius, P.S., Gorman-Smith, D. et al. (2020). Family Support and Connection Groups: Long-Term Benefits for Inner-City Children?. She was also a member of a Study Group on Primary Prevention of Antisocial Behavior for the United Kingdom’s Department of Health.

Her research group put forth recommendations for consideration by Member States of the UN. Gorman-Smith led a study for the United Nations on violence against children that provided an in-depth picture of the prevalence, nature, and causes of all forms of violence against children. She has published extensively in areas related to youth violence, including the relationship between community characteristics, family functioning and aggression and violence, including partner violence and the impact of family-focused preventive interventions. Gorman-Smith has been or currently is Principal or Co-Principal Investigator on several longitudinal risk and preventive intervention studies funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), CDC-P, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and the William T. Her program of research, grounded in a public health perspective, is focused on advancing knowledge about development, risk, and prevention of aggression and violence, with specific focus on minority youth living in high burden urban communities. Professor Deborah Gorman-Smith is the Principal Investigator and Director of the Chicago Center for Youth Violence Prevention, one of six national Academic Centers of Excellence for Youth Violence Prevention funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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