Ross Homel
Biographic Data
| ID | 309888 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ross Homel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ross |
| FAMILY NAME | Homel |
| SIGNATURE | HOMEL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7036-8706 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Population Perspectives on Nurturing Relational Health from Early Life: A Systematic Review Series
Opportunities to Improve the Implementation of Relational Health Interventions for Children and Families: A Secondary Analysis of a Scoping Review
Despite the availability of universally delivered evidence-based relational health interventions, their wide-scale translation into practice is slow and unsustained. Measuring implementation outcomes within intervention trials is critical to understand their effectiveness and inform future scaling. This study aimed to determine the extent to which universally delivered relational health interventions measured and reported on implementation outcom…
A Living Scoping Review of Universal Interventions for Promoting Relational Health in Childhood, Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Mapping What Works to Strengthen the Relational Ecology of Early Child Development: A Systematic Scoping Review
The development of secure bonds between children and adult carers, particularly parents, is determined by a complex ecosystem of relationships that includes parents, care providers in other settings, and the values and institutions that care for those who care for children. Here we conduct a scoping review to map scientific progress in the development of evidence based interventions across all levels of relational ecology of early child developme…
Return on investment of the pathways to prevention project from the reduced probability of the onset of serious youth offending
The development and psychometric properties of a scalable digital measure of social and emotional wellbeing for middle childhood
The need for a new measure of social-emotional wellbeing for children 6–12 years emerged in our collaboration with schools and community agencies in a disadvantaged region of Brisbane, Australia. Our search for an age-appropriate medium led us to develop Clowning Around, a computer game generating data which was assessed for validity and reliability in Study 1 (N = 3,461), revealing four wellbeing factors with satisfactory properties. The imperat…
Cumulative Sociodemographic Risk as a Predictor of Adolescent Antisocial Behaviour
Sociodemographic disadvantage has pervasive effects on a broad range of youth outcomes, including greater likelihood of involvement in delinquent and criminal behaviours. Sociodemographic vulnerabilities rarely exist in isolation however, and research suggests that the cumulative impact of these risks exacerbates their effects. Most research examining cumulative disadvantage combines sociodemographic risk factors with more proximal variables rela…
Child well‐being before and after the 2020 Covid ‐19 lockdowns in three Australian states
This paper reports on changes in the social‐emotional well‐being of 6‐ to 12‐year‐old children tested before the COVID‐19 pandemic and during 2020 and 2021. Well‐being was assessed using a video game that empowers children to report their own well‐being, including school attachment, social and emotional well‐being, behavioural conformity and family support. We compared well‐being over time for two groups of children in government schools in Queen…
Evaluation of a place‐based collective impact initiative through cross‐sectoral data linkage
Australian governments fund many place‐based collective impact initiatives like Communities for Children (CfC); states fund family support services to keep at‐risk children out of the child protection system; and schools implement many extracurricular programmes. Do these services have a beneficial, cost‐effective collective impact on child well‐being? This paper describes a proof‐of‐concept attempt to address this question by linking for one CfC…
Preventing Crime and Recidivism: State of the Art Evidence, and How to Apply it at Scale
In the important article by David Weisburd, David Farrington, and Charlotte Gill (2017, this issue), based on a systematic review of 118 separate systematic reviews, the authors and their extensive research team have assembled the most compelling evidence to date that crime prevention and correctional programs work, and they often work extremely well. In fact, an amazing array of different approaches, including developmental and social prevention…
Disentangling Operationalizations of Persistent Offending
The Parent Empowerment and Efficacy Measure (Peem): A Tool for Strengthening the Accountability and Effectiveness of Family Support Services
This article describes the development, validity, and reliability of the Parent Empowerment and Efficacy Measure (PEEM). Development was guided by theory and by challenges faced by Pathways to Prevention family support staff who required a short, practical, and reliable measure of parent empowerment. The measure's psychometric properties were tested using data from 866 parents of children aged 5 to 12, living in high to low socioeconomic status a…
Pathways and Crime Prevention
Valuing Developmental Crime Prevention
Developmental crime prevention programs produce positive returns on investment. Previous studies of such returns do not adequately quantify and weight impacts across multiple domains of quality of life (e.g., social-emotional development, family wellbeing) or provide a protocol for deciding between programs that recognizes these multiple domains (i.e. propose a method for the ranking of program alternatives). We adapted a multiple criteria decisi…
Overview of: “Valuing Developmental Crime Prevention”
Research Summary Developmental crime prevention programs produce positive returns on investment. Previous studies of such returns have not adequately quantified and weighted impacts across multiple domains of quality of life (e.g., social‐emotional development and family well‐being) or have provided a protocol for deciding between programs that recognizes these multiple domains (i.e., propose a method for the ranking of program alternatives). We …
Collective Efficacy as a Task Specific Process: Examining the Relationship Between Social Ties, Neighborhood Cohesion and the Capacity to Respond to Violence, Delinquency and Civic Problems
In the neighborhood effects literature, collective efficacy is viewed as the key explanatory process associated with the spatial distribution of a range of social problems. While many studies usefully focus on the consequences of collective efficacy, in this paper we examine the task specificity of collective efficacy and consider the individual and neighborhood factors that influence residents’ perceptions of neighborhood collective efficacy for…
Environments for Healthy Living (EFHL) Griffith Birth Cohort Study: Background and Methods
Making the developmental system work better for children: Lessons learned implementing an innovative programme
Pathways to Prevention is an early prevention project founded on developmental systems theory operating through a schools‐community agency‐university partnership in a socially disadvantaged area of Brisbane. Circles of Care is a Pathways programme also implemented on a small scale by the same agency in a regional city. The Circles programme is designed to strengthen connections between schools, families and community services, and harmonize activ…
Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity
Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity - Research and Public Policy Second Edition is a collaborative effort by an international group of addiction scientists to improve the linkages between addiction science and alcohol policy. It presents the accumulated scientific knowledge on alcohol research that has a direct relevance to the development of alcohol policy on local, national, and international levels. It provides an objective analytical basis on whic…
A meta-analysis of the effects of early developmental prevention programs in at-risk populations on non-health outcomes in adolescence
The Good Life: What is it, do we have it
Beyond Risk Factors: Towards a Holistic Prevention Paradigm for Children and Young People
Since the mid 1990s early intervention and prevention has become a central feature of public policy across the western world. This development has had a major impact on re-constructing the prevention paradigm in children and youth services. It has been underpinned by the emergence of the science of risk factor analysis (RFA). This paradigm has had mixed success in prevention work but has gained significant political credence and support. While RF…
Creating pathways to participation: A community-based developmental prevention project in Australia
Pathways to Prevention is a developmental prevention project focused on the transition to school in a disadvantaged multicultural urban area in Queensland. The project incorporates two elements: The Preschool Intervention Program (PIP) promotes communication and social skills related to school success; and the Family Independence Program (FIP) (parent training, facilitated playgroups, support groups, etc) promotes family capacity to foster child …
Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity: Research and public policy
From a public health perspective, alcohol is no ordinary consumer product. On a global level, it is a major contributor to disease, disability, and premature mortality. It also has an adverse impact on many aspects of social life. Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity – Research and Public Policy describes recent advances in alcohol research that have direct relevance for the development of effective alcohol policies at the local, national and internati…
Perceptions of Physical, Psychological, Social and Legal Deterrents to Joyriding
Collective Efficacy as a Task Specific Process: Examining the Relationship Between Social Ties, Neighborhood Cohesion and the Capacity to Respond to Violence, Delinquency and Civic Problems
In the neighborhood effects literature, collective efficacy is viewed as the key explanatory process associated with the spatial distribution of a range of social problems. While many studies usefully focus on the consequences of collective efficacy, in this paper we examine the task specificity of collective efficacy and consider the individual and neighborhood factors that influence residents’ perceptions of neighborhood collective efficacy for…
Environmental quality and the well-being of children
Parental Social Networks and Child Development
It has often been suggested - but not demonstrated - that parents' links with kin, neighbours, friends and formal organizations are likely to have many effects on children. In the present study independent interviews were held with 305 nine-to eleven-year-old children and their parents. Two aspects of parents' networks displayed strong effects: (a) the parental possession of regularly seen dependable friends ('friends you can call on in a crisis'…
Beyond Risk Factors: Towards a Holistic Prevention Paradigm for Children and Young People
Since the mid 1990s early intervention and prevention has become a central feature of public policy across the western world. This development has had a major impact on re-constructing the prevention paradigm in children and youth services. It has been underpinned by the emergence of the science of risk factor analysis (RFA). This paradigm has had mixed success in prevention work but has gained significant political credence and support. While RF…
The Parent Empowerment and Efficacy Measure (Peem): A Tool for Strengthening the Accountability and Effectiveness of Family Support Services
This article describes the development, validity, and reliability of the Parent Empowerment and Efficacy Measure (PEEM). Development was guided by theory and by challenges faced by Pathways to Prevention family support staff who required a short, practical, and reliable measure of parent empowerment. The measure's psychometric properties were tested using data from 866 parents of children aged 5 to 12, living in high to low socioeconomic status a…
Reducing violence in licensed venues through community safety action projects: The Queensland experience
Community-based safety action projects, replications of the model developed in Surfers Paradise designed to reduce violence and disorder in licensed environments in city entertainment areas, were implemented in three diverse North Queensland cities (Cairns, Townsville and Mackay). The change model is based on prior experience with community interventions, the theory of situational crime prevention, and the theory of responsive regulation. The int…
Valuing Developmental Crime Prevention
Developmental crime prevention programs produce positive returns on investment. Previous studies of such returns do not adequately quantify and weight impacts across multiple domains of quality of life (e.g., social-emotional development, family wellbeing) or provide a protocol for deciding between programs that recognizes these multiple domains (i.e. propose a method for the ranking of program alternatives). We adapted a multiple criteria decisi…
Gender Division of Tasks by Parents and Their Children
The division of parenting tasks between wives and husbands was explored in a sample of 279 Australian families containing a 9–11-year-old child, and the children's performance of household tasks was compared with their parents' division of labor. Three parenting factors (domestic care, leisure/enrichment, and psychological), and four child factors (handyman, domestic, maturity, and babysitting) were obtained. Mothers were more active than fathers…
A meta-analysis of the effects of early developmental prevention programs in at-risk populations on non-health outcomes in adolescence
Evaluation of a place‐based collective impact initiative through cross‐sectoral data linkage
Australian governments fund many place‐based collective impact initiatives like Communities for Children (CfC); states fund family support services to keep at‐risk children out of the child protection system; and schools implement many extracurricular programmes. Do these services have a beneficial, cost‐effective collective impact on child well‐being? This paper describes a proof‐of‐concept attempt to address this question by linking for one CfC…
Crime and Disadvantage
T. VINSON, R. HOMEL; CRIME AND DISADVANTAGE: The coincidence of medical and social problems in an Australian city, The British Journal of Criminology, Volu
Child well‐being before and after the 2020 Covid ‐19 lockdowns in three Australian states
This paper reports on changes in the social‐emotional well‐being of 6‐ to 12‐year‐old children tested before the COVID‐19 pandemic and during 2020 and 2021. Well‐being was assessed using a video game that empowers children to report their own well‐being, including school attachment, social and emotional well‐being, behavioural conformity and family support. We compared well‐being over time for two groups of children in government schools in Queen…
Cumulative Sociodemographic Risk as a Predictor of Adolescent Antisocial Behaviour
Sociodemographic disadvantage has pervasive effects on a broad range of youth outcomes, including greater likelihood of involvement in delinquent and criminal behaviours. Sociodemographic vulnerabilities rarely exist in isolation however, and research suggests that the cumulative impact of these risks exacerbates their effects. Most research examining cumulative disadvantage combines sociodemographic risk factors with more proximal variables rela…
Disentangling Operationalizations of Persistent Offending
Overview of: “Valuing Developmental Crime Prevention”
Research Summary Developmental crime prevention programs produce positive returns on investment. Previous studies of such returns have not adequately quantified and weighted impacts across multiple domains of quality of life (e.g., social‐emotional development and family well‐being) or have provided a protocol for deciding between programs that recognizes these multiple domains (i.e., propose a method for the ranking of program alternatives). We …
Making the developmental system work better for children: Lessons learned implementing an innovative programme
Pathways to Prevention is an early prevention project founded on developmental systems theory operating through a schools‐community agency‐university partnership in a socially disadvantaged area of Brisbane. Circles of Care is a Pathways programme also implemented on a small scale by the same agency in a regional city. The Circles programme is designed to strengthen connections between schools, families and community services, and harmonize activ…
Motoring Offences as Crime: Some Priorities for Social and Action Research
This paper highlights recent trends in criminology and assesses their relevance for road safety research. It is concluded that research priorities should be in the areas of general deterrence (particularly the value of random breath testing), physical prevention and study of the criminal justice system (especially the police). In addition, close attention should be paid to the political context within which the research is carried out. Lessons fo…
Crime and Disadvantage
T. VINSON, R. HOMEL; CRIME AND DISADVANTAGE: The coincidence of medical and social problems in an Australian city, The British Journal of Criminology, Volu
Motoring Offences as Crime: Some Priorities for Social and Action Research
This paper highlights recent trends in criminology and assesses their relevance for road safety research. It is concluded that research priorities should be in the areas of general deterrence (particularly the value of random breath testing), physical prevention and study of the criminal justice system (especially the police). In addition, close attention should be paid to the political context within which the research is carried out. Lessons fo…
Sex Role Satisfaction Among Australian Children: Some Sex, Age, and Cultural Group Comparisons
Children's satisfaction with being a member of their own sex was explored within two Australian samples. In a national sample of 2,268 children, grades 1–6, trends were similar to those reported in the United States. Girls were less satisfied with their sex role than boys, and older girls were more dissatisfied than younger girls. The most frequent reason girls offered for dissatisfaction with their sex was restriction of sports opportunities. In…
Parental Social Networks and Child Development
It has often been suggested - but not demonstrated - that parents' links with kin, neighbours, friends and formal organizations are likely to have many effects on children. In the present study independent interviews were held with 305 nine-to eleven-year-old children and their parents. Two aspects of parents' networks displayed strong effects: (a) the parental possession of regularly seen dependable friends ('friends you can call on in a crisis'…
Gender Division of Tasks by Parents and Their Children
The division of parenting tasks between wives and husbands was explored in a sample of 279 Australian families containing a 9–11-year-old child, and the children's performance of household tasks was compared with their parents' division of labor. Three parenting factors (domestic care, leisure/enrichment, and psychological), and four child factors (handyman, domestic, maturity, and babysitting) were obtained. Mothers were more active than fathers…
Policing and Punishing the Drinking Driver: A Study of General and Specific Deterrence
Environmental quality and the well-being of children
Sentencer and offender factors as sources of discrimination in magistrates' penalties for drinking drivers
Reducing violence in licensed venues through community safety action projects: The Queensland experience
Community-based safety action projects, replications of the model developed in Surfers Paradise designed to reduce violence and disorder in licensed environments in city entertainment areas, were implemented in three diverse North Queensland cities (Cairns, Townsville and Mackay). The change model is based on prior experience with community interventions, the theory of situational crime prevention, and the theory of responsive regulation. The int…
Perceptions of Physical, Psychological, Social and Legal Deterrents to Joyriding
Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity: Research and public policy
From a public health perspective, alcohol is no ordinary consumer product. On a global level, it is a major contributor to disease, disability, and premature mortality. It also has an adverse impact on many aspects of social life. Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity – Research and Public Policy describes recent advances in alcohol research that have direct relevance for the development of effective alcohol policies at the local, national and internati…
Creating pathways to participation: A community-based developmental prevention project in Australia
Pathways to Prevention is a developmental prevention project focused on the transition to school in a disadvantaged multicultural urban area in Queensland. The project incorporates two elements: The Preschool Intervention Program (PIP) promotes communication and social skills related to school success; and the Family Independence Program (FIP) (parent training, facilitated playgroups, support groups, etc) promotes family capacity to foster child …
Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity
Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity - Research and Public Policy Second Edition is a collaborative effort by an international group of addiction scientists to improve the linkages between addiction science and alcohol policy. It presents the accumulated scientific knowledge on alcohol research that has a direct relevance to the development of alcohol policy on local, national, and international levels. It provides an objective analytical basis on whic…
A meta-analysis of the effects of early developmental prevention programs in at-risk populations on non-health outcomes in adolescence
The Good Life: What is it, do we have it
Beyond Risk Factors: Towards a Holistic Prevention Paradigm for Children and Young People
Since the mid 1990s early intervention and prevention has become a central feature of public policy across the western world. This development has had a major impact on re-constructing the prevention paradigm in children and youth services. It has been underpinned by the emergence of the science of risk factor analysis (RFA). This paradigm has had mixed success in prevention work but has gained significant political credence and support. While RF…
Environments for Healthy Living (EFHL) Griffith Birth Cohort Study: Background and Methods
Making the developmental system work better for children: Lessons learned implementing an innovative programme
Pathways to Prevention is an early prevention project founded on developmental systems theory operating through a schools‐community agency‐university partnership in a socially disadvantaged area of Brisbane. Circles of Care is a Pathways programme also implemented on a small scale by the same agency in a regional city. The Circles programme is designed to strengthen connections between schools, families and community services, and harmonize activ…
Pathways and Crime Prevention
Valuing Developmental Crime Prevention
Developmental crime prevention programs produce positive returns on investment. Previous studies of such returns do not adequately quantify and weight impacts across multiple domains of quality of life (e.g., social-emotional development, family wellbeing) or provide a protocol for deciding between programs that recognizes these multiple domains (i.e. propose a method for the ranking of program alternatives). We adapted a multiple criteria decisi…
Overview of: “Valuing Developmental Crime Prevention”
Research Summary Developmental crime prevention programs produce positive returns on investment. Previous studies of such returns have not adequately quantified and weighted impacts across multiple domains of quality of life (e.g., social‐emotional development and family well‐being) or have provided a protocol for deciding between programs that recognizes these multiple domains (i.e., propose a method for the ranking of program alternatives). We …
Collective Efficacy as a Task Specific Process: Examining the Relationship Between Social Ties, Neighborhood Cohesion and the Capacity to Respond to Violence, Delinquency and Civic Problems
In the neighborhood effects literature, collective efficacy is viewed as the key explanatory process associated with the spatial distribution of a range of social problems. While many studies usefully focus on the consequences of collective efficacy, in this paper we examine the task specificity of collective efficacy and consider the individual and neighborhood factors that influence residents’ perceptions of neighborhood collective efficacy for…
The Parent Empowerment and Efficacy Measure (Peem): A Tool for Strengthening the Accountability and Effectiveness of Family Support Services
This article describes the development, validity, and reliability of the Parent Empowerment and Efficacy Measure (PEEM). Development was guided by theory and by challenges faced by Pathways to Prevention family support staff who required a short, practical, and reliable measure of parent empowerment. The measure's psychometric properties were tested using data from 866 parents of children aged 5 to 12, living in high to low socioeconomic status a…
Preventing Crime and Recidivism: State of the Art Evidence, and How to Apply it at Scale
In the important article by David Weisburd, David Farrington, and Charlotte Gill (2017, this issue), based on a systematic review of 118 separate systematic reviews, the authors and their extensive research team have assembled the most compelling evidence to date that crime prevention and correctional programs work, and they often work extremely well. In fact, an amazing array of different approaches, including developmental and social prevention…
Disentangling Operationalizations of Persistent Offending
Psychology (21 works) · Political science (16 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Criminology (11 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (10 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (9 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works)