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VITA: KIRK R. WILLIAMS

Contact Information

Office Address: Department of Criminology, Law & Society

3309 Social Ecology II

University of California, Irvine

Irvine, CA 92697

Phone: (949) 677-1202

Email: kirkrw@uci.edu

Education

Undergraduate: Bachelor of Arts in Sociology/Journalism,

Texas Christian University; Fort Worth,

Texas: 1971.

Graduate: Master of Arts in Sociology, Texas Christian University; Fort Worth,

Texas: 1973.

Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology,

The University of Arizona, Tucson,

Arizona: 1977.

Areas of Interest Intimate Partner and Youth Violence,

Family and Youth Violence Risk

Assessment, Violence Prevention, Homicide

Research

Faculty and Administrative Positions

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Memphis State

University (1976-1981)

Postdoctoral Fellow in the Sociology of Social Control, Department of Sociology, Yale

University (1981-1982), funded by the National Institute of Mental Health

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Memphis State

University (1982-1984)

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of New

Hampshire (1984-1990, Professor 2004-2005)

Research Associate, Family Research Laboratory, University of New Hampshire (1986-

1990, 2004-2005)

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Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado (1990 to 1999)

Professional Staff, Research Program on Problem Behavior, Institute of Behavioral

Science, University of Colorado (1991 to 1999)

Founding Associate Director, Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence,

University of Colorado (1992 to 1999)

Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California at Riverside (1998 to 2011)

Faculty Fellow (1998-2004), Interim Director (2005-2006), Co-Director (2006 to 2011),

Robert Presley Center for Crime and Justice Studies, University of California at

Riverside

Co-Director (2000-2011), Southern California Academic Center of Excellence in Youth

Violence Prevention, University of California at Riverside

Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice, University of

Delaware (2011 to 2016)

Professor, Department of Criminology, Law & Society, University of California, Irvine

(2016 to present)

Graduate Director, Social Ecology Ph.D. Core Program, University of California, Irvine

(2018 to present)

Articles and Chapters

Google Scholar Link:

http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nt1QVukAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Hammond, Phillip E. and Kirk R. Williams (1976). "The Protestant ethic thesis: A social-

psychological assessment." Social Forces (March): 579-589.

Hammond, Phillip E. and Kirk R. Williams (1979). "Moral climates of nations:

Measurement and classification." In Robert Wuthnow (Ed.), The Religious

Dimension: New Directions in Quantitative Research. New York: Academic

Press.

Williams, Kirk R., Jack P. Gibbs, and Maynard L. Erickson (1980). "Public knowledge of

statutory penalties: The extent and basis of accurate perception." Pacific

Sociological Review 23: 105-128.

Williams, Kirk R. and Susan Drake (1980). "Social structure, crime, and criminalization:

An empirical examination of the conflict perspective." The Sociological Quarterly

21: 563-575.

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Williams, Kirk R. and Maynard L. Erickson (1981). "Potential for crime and knowledge

of legal sanctions." Deviant Behavior 2: 287-304.

Williams, Kirk R. and Jack P. Gibbs (1981). "Deterrence and knowledge of statutory

penalties." The Sociological Quarterly 22: 591-606.

Williams, Kirk R. and Michael F. Timberlake (1984). "Structured inequality, conflict,

and control: A cross-national test of the threat hypothesis." Social Forces 63:

414-432.

Timberlake, Michael F. and Kirk R. Williams (1984). "Dependence, political exclusion,

and government repression: A cross-national study." American Sociological

Review 49: 141-146.

Williams, Kirk R. (1984). "Economic sources of homicide: Reestimating the effects of

poverty and inequality." American Sociological Review 49: 283-289.

Williams, Kirk R. and Richard Hawkins (1986). "Perceptual research on general

deterrence: A critical review." Law and Society Review 20: 545-572.

Williams, Kirk R. and Michael F. Timberlake (1987). " Structural position in the world-

system, inequality, and political violence." Journal of Political and Military

Sociology 15: 1-5.

Carmody, Dianne Cyr and Kirk R. Williams (1987). "Wife assault and perceptions of

sanctions." Violence and Victims 2: 25-38.

Williams, Kirk R. and Robert Flewelling (1987). "Family, acquaintance, and stranger

homicide: An Alternative procedures for rate calculations." Criminology 25: 543-

560.

Williams, Kirk R. and Robert Flewelling (1988). "The social production of criminal

homicide: A comparative study of disaggregated homicide rates in American

cities." American Sociological Review 53: 421-431.

Williams, Kirk R. and Richard Hawkins (1989). "The meaning of arrest for wife assault.”

Criminology 27: 163-181.

Browne, Angela and Kirk R. Williams (1989). "Resource availability for women at risk

and partner homicide." Law and Society Review 23: 75-94.

Williams, Kirk R. and Richard Hawkins (1989). "Controlling male aggression in intimate

relationships." Law and Society Review 23: 591-612.

Ward Sally K., Kathy Chapman, Ellen Cohn, Susan White, and Kirk R. Williams (1991).

"Acquaintance rape and the college social scene." Family Relations 40: 65-71.

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Dutton, Donald G., Stephan G. Hart, Leslie G. Kennedy, and Kirk R. Wiliams (1992).

"Arrest and the reduction of repeat wife assault." In Buzawa, Eve, and Carl

Buzawa (Eds.), Domestic Violence: The Changing Criminal Justice Response.

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Williams, Kirk R. and Richard Hawkins (1992). "Wife assault, costs of arrest, and the

deterrence process." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 29: 292-310.

Williams, Kirk R. (1992). "Social sources of marital violence and deterrence: Testing an

integrated theory of assaults between partners." Journal of Marriage and the

Family 54: 620-629.

Browne, Angela and Kirk R. Williams (1993). "Gender, intimacy, and lethal violence:

Trends from 1976 – 1987." Gender and Society 7:78-98.

Lackey, Chad and Kirk R. Williams (1995). "Social bonding and the cessation of

violence over the life course." Journal of Marriage and the Family 57: 295-305.

Murray, Mary, Nancy G. Guerra, and Kirk R. Williams (1997). "Violence prevention for

the 21st

century." In Weissberg, Roger, Thomas P. Gullotta, Robert L. Hampton, Bruce A. Ryan, and Gerald R. Adams (Eds.) Enhancing Children’s Wellness. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Elliott, Delbert S., Beatrix Hamburg, and Kirk R. Williams (1998). "Violence in

American schools: An overview." In Elliott, Delbert S., Beatrix Hamburg, and

Kirk R. Williams (Eds.) Violence in American Schools. Cambridge University

Press.

Elliott, Delbert S., Kirk R. Williams, and Beatrix Hamburg (1998). "An integrated

approach to violence prevention." In Elliott, Delbert S., Beatrix Hamburg, and

Kirk R. Williams (Eds.) Violence in American Schools. Cambridge University

Press.

Flewelling, Robert and Kirk R. Williams (1999). "Categorizing homicides: The use of

disaggregated data in homicide research." In Smith, Dwayne and Margaret Zahn

(Eds.) Homicide: A Sourcebook of Social Research. Thousand Oaks: Sage

Publications.

Browne, Angela, Kirk R. Williams, and Donald G. Dutton (1999). "Homicide between

intimate partners: A 20-year review." In Dwayne Smith and Margaret Zahn (Eds.)

Homicide: A Sourcebook of Social Research. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

Browne, Angela, Kirk R. Williams, and Donald G. Dutton (1999). "Homicide between

intimate partners." In Dwayne Smith and Margaret Zahn (Eds.) Studying and

Preventing Homicide. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

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Pampel, Fred and Kirk R. Williams (2000). “Intimacy and homicide: Compensating for

missing data in the SHR.” Criminology 38: 661-680.

Guerra, Nancy G. and Kirk R. Williams (2003). “Implementation of school-based

Wellness Centers.” Psychology in the Schools 40: 473-487.

Williams, Kirk R. and Amy Barry Houghton (2004). “Assessing the risk of domestic

violence re-offending: A validation study.” Law and Human Behavior 28: 437-

455.

Williams, Kirk R. (2005). “Arrest and intimate partner violence: Toward a more

complete application of deterrence theory.” Aggression and Violent Behavior: A

Review Journal 10: 660-679.

Guerra, Nancy G. and Kirk R. Williams (2006). “Ethnicity, youth violence, and the

ecology of development.” In Guerra, Nancy G. and Emilie Phillips Smith (Eds.)

Preventing Youth Violence in a Multi-Cultural Society, American Psychological

Association.

Williams, Kirk R. and Sabrina Arredondo-Mattson (2006). “Lessons learned from a

community-based project to reduce youth handgun violence in Colorado.” New

Directions for Evaluation 110: 5-17.

Williams, Kirk R. and Stephen R. Grant (2006). “Empirically examining the risk of

intimate partner violence: The Revised Domestic Violence Screening Instrument

(DVSI-R).” Public Health Reports 121:400-408.

Williams, Kirk R. and Nancy G. Guerra (2007).“Prevalence and predictors of cyber-

bullying.” Journal of Adolescent Health 41: 514-521.

Cook, Clayton R., Kirk R. Williams, Nancy G. Guerra, and Louis Tuthill (2007).

“Cyberbullying: What is it and what can we do about it.” Communique 36: 1-5.

Williams, Kirk R. (2007). “The Domestic Violence Screening Instrument (DVSI and

DVSI-R).” In Cutler, B. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law. Sage

Publications.

Williams, Kirk R., Louis Tuthill, and Shoon Lio (2008). “A portrait of juvenile offending

in the United States.” In Hoge, Bob, Nancy G. Guerra, and Paul Boxer (Eds.)

Treating the Juvenile Offender. Guilford Press.

Guerra, Nancy G., Kirk R. Williams, Patrick H. Tolan, and Kathy Modecki (2008).

“Theoretical and research advances in understanding the causes of juvenile

offending.” In Hoge, Bob, Nancy G. Guerra, and Paul Boxer (Eds.) Treating the

Juvenile Offender. Guilford Press.

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Payne, Pedro and Kirk R. Williams (2008). “Building social capital through

neighborhood mobilization: Challenges and lessons learned.” Journal of

Preventive Medicine 34: S42-S47.

Kim, Tia, Nancy G. Guerra, and Kirk R. Williams (2008). “Preventing youth problem

behaviors and enhancing physical health by promoting core competencies.”

Journal of Adolescent Health 43:401-407.

Cook, Clayton R., Kirk R. Williams, Nancy G. Guerra, and Tia E. Kim (2010).

“Variation in the prevalence of bullying and victimization: A cross-national and

methodological analysis.” In Jimerson, Shane R., Susan Swearer, and Dorothy

Espelage (Eds.) The International Handbook of School Bullying. New York:

Routledge.

Guerra, Nancy G. and Kirk R. Williams (2010). “Implementing bullying prevention in

diverse settings: Geographic, economic, and cultural influences.” In Vernberg,

Eric M. and Bridget K. Biggs (Eds.) Preventing and Treating Bullying and

Victimization. Oxford University Press.

D’Auria, Stephanie and Kirk R. Williams (2010). “A reconceptualization of general and

specific deterrence: Stafford and Warr’s deterrence theory.” In Cullen, Francis T.

and Pamela Wilcox (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Criminological Theory. Sage.

Cook, Clayton R., Kirk R. Williams, Nancy G. Guerra, Tia E. Kim, and Shelly Sadek

(2010). “Predictors of bullying and victimization in children and adolescents: A

meta-analytic review.” School Psychology Quarterly 25: 65-83.

Guerra, Nancy G., Kirk R. Williams, Julie Meeks-Gardner, and Ian Walker (2010). “The

Kingston Y.M.C.A. Youth Development Programme: An effective violence

prevention programme for inner city youth.” In Hoffman, Joan, Robert McMahon,

and Lyndee Knox (Eds.) Beyond Supression. Praeger International Press.

Guerra, Nancy G. and Kirk R. Williams (2011). “Bullying and victimization from

childhood to adolescence: Developmental changes and implications for

prevention.” Child Development 82: 295-310.

Knox, Lyndee, Nancy G. Guerra, and Kirk R. Williams (January, 2011). “Preventing

children’s aggression in immigrant Latino families: A mixed methods evaluation

of the Families and Schools Together (FAST) program.” American Journal of

Community Psychology. DOI 10.1007/s10464-010-9441-0.

Williams, Kirk R. and Nancy G. Guerra (2011). “Perceptions of collective efficacy and

bullying perpetration in schools.” Social Problems 58: 126-143.

Gendron, Brian, Kirk R. Williams, and Nancy G. Guerra (2011). “Individual

characteristics and contextual perceptions in the prediction of bullying behavior.”

Journal of School Violence 10: 150-164.

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Meeks Gardner, Julie, Kirk R. Williams, Nancy G. Guerra, and Ian Walker (2011). “The

Jamaican Youth Survey: Assessing core competencies and risk for aggression

among Jamaican youth.” Caribbean Quarterly 57 (1): 35-53.

Parker, Robert Nash, Kirk R. Williams, Kevin McCaffrey, Emily K. Asencio, Angela

Browne, Kevin J. Strom, and Kelle Barrick (2011). “Alcohol availability and

youth homicide in the 91 largest US cities, 1984-2006.” Drug and Alcohol Review

30: 505-514.

Williams, Kirk R. (2012). “Family violence risk assessment: A predictive validation

study of the Domestic Violence Screening Instrument (DVSI-R).” Law and

Human Behavior 36: 120-129. DOI 10.1007/s10979-011-9272-6.

Guerra, Nancy G. and Kirk R. Williams (2012). “Implementing evidence based practices

(EBPs) for juvenile justice prevention and treatment communities.” Pp. 297-308

In Elena Grigorenko (Ed.) Handbook of Juvenile Forensic Psychology and

Psychiatry. New York: Springer

Browne, Angela, Kirk R. Williams, Robert Nash Parker, Kevin Strom, and Kelle Barrick.

“Factors and Trends in Youth Homicide Perpetration in the United States: 1984-

2006.” (2013). Weisburd and Bruinsma (Eds) Encyclopedia of Criminology and

Criminal Justice. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer.

Bell, Caryn and Kirk R. Williams (2013). “Gender and partner violence: Does dual

arrests reveal gender symmetry or asymmetry?” Journal of Interpersonal

Violence 28: 1561-1578. DOI 10.1177/0886260512468325.

Nieri, Tanya, Jennifer L. Matjasko, Kirk R. Williams, and Nancy G. Guerra (2013).

“Youth violence prevention: Public health intervention and high risk

populations.” Pp. 225-238 In Sanders, Bill, F., Yonette F. Thomas and Bethany

Reeds (Eds.) Crime, HIV and Health: Intersections of Criminal Justice and

Public Health Concerns. Springer Press.

Stansfield, Richard and Kirk R. Williams (2014). “Predicting family violence recidivism

using the DVSI-R: Integrating survival analysis and perpetrator characteristics.”

Criminal Justice and Behavior 41: 163-180.

Williamson, Ariel, Lyndee Knox, Nancy G. Guerra, and Kirk R. Williams (2014). “A

pilot randomized trial of community-based parent training for immigrant Latina

mothers.” American Journal of Community Psychology 53: 47-59.

Stansfield, Richard, Kirk R. Williams, and Karen F. Parker (2017). “Economic

disadvantage and homicide: Accounting for temporal trends across cities by age

groups.” Homicide Studies 21: 59-81. DOI 10.1177/1088767916647990.

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Williams, Kirk R. and Richard Stansfield (2017). “Disentangling the risk assessment and

intimate partner violence relation: Estimating mediating and moderating effects.”

Law and Human Behavior 41: 344-353.

Campbell, Jacquelyn C., Jill Theresa Messing, and Kirk R. Williams (2017). “Prediction

of homicide of and by battered women.” Pp. 107-138 In Campbell, Jacquelyn C.

and Jill Theresa Messing (Eds.) Assessing Dangerousness: Domestic Violence

Offenders and Child Abusers, 3rd Edition, New York: Springer Publishing

Company.

Mancik, Ashley M., Karen F. Parker, and Kirk R. Williams (2018). “Neighborhood

context and homicide clearance: Estimating the effects of collective efficacy.”

Homicide Studies 22:188-213.

Stansfield, Richard and Kirk R. Williams (2018). “Coercive control between intimate

partners: An application to nonfatal strangulation.” Journal of Interpersonal

Violence DOI: 10.1177/0886260518795175.

Gerstenberger, Caryn, Richard Stansfield, and Kirk R. Williams (2019). “Intimate partner

violence in same-sex relationships.” Criminal Justice and Behavior DOI:

1177/0093854819871984.

Nevarez Martinez, Deyanira, Matt Barno, and Kirk R. Williams (2019). “Bail reform,

pretrial assessment and supervision in California.” Perspectives 43: 30-35.

Barno, Matt, Deyanira Nevarez Martinez, and Kirk R. Williams (2019). “Exploring

alternatives to cash bond: An evaluation of Orange County’s pretrial assessment

and release supervision (PARS) program.” American Journal of Criminal Justice

DOI: 10.1007/s12103-019-09506-3.

Lane, David C., Kirk R. Williams, and Jacob Foster (2020). “Businesses, places, and

homicide: A preliminary empirical examination.” DOI:

10.1080/01639625.2020.1743137.

Williams, Kirk R. Richard Stansfield, and Jacquelyn C. Campbell (under review).

“Persistence and potential lethality in intimate partner violence: Evaluating the

concurrent and predictive validity of a dual assessment protocol.

Books

Elliott, Delbert S., Beatrix Hamburg, and Kirk R. Williams (Eds.). (1998). Violence in

American Schools. Cambridge University Press

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Technical Reports

Williams, Kirk R., Brian A. Mattson, Delbert S. Elliott, Deborah Haack, and Lane Cook

(1993). Violence in Colorado, 1976-91: A Focus on homicide. Center for the

Study and Prevention of Violence, University of Colorado and The Colorado

Department of Public Health and Environment.

Williams, Kirk R., Brian Mattson, and Delbert Elliott (1994). Violence in Colorado:

Trends and Resources. A resource manual produced by the Violence Prevention

Advisory Committee, the Colorado Department of Public Health and

Environment, and the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence.

Jackson, Kristi, Kirk R. Williams, and Delbert S. Elliott (1996). Program evaluation

overview. Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, University of

Colorado, Boulder, CO.

Guerra, Nancy G. and Kirk R. Williams (1996). Building effective strategies to address

youth violence in your community: A program planning guide for a risk-focused

approach. Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, University of

Colorado, Boulder.

Williams, Kirk R., Nancy G. Guerra, and Delbert S. Elliott (1996). Human development

and violence prevention. Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence,

University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.

Arredondo, Sabrina, Tonya Aultman-Bettridge, Tenah Johnson, and Kirk R. Williams

(1999). A study of youth handgun violence. Center for the Study and Prevention of

Violence, University of Colorado, Boulder.

Williams, Kirk R., Nancy G. Guerra, and Delbert S. Elliott (1999). Supporting youth by

strengthening communities: Helping children grow and preventing problem

behaviors. Center for the study and Prevention of Violence, University of

Colorado, Boulder.

Williams, Kirk R. and Nancy Guerra (2000). A Review of the Senate Bill 91-94

Evaluation. Report to the Division of Youth Corrections, Research and Evaluation

Office, Denver, CO

Williams, Kirk R. and Lyndee Knox (2001). Approaches to Grantmaking. Final report to

The Colorado Trust, Denver, CO.

Williams, Kirk R. and Elizabeth Conniff (2002). Legal sanctions and the violent

victimization of women. Commissioned paper presented at “Expanding the

Federal Research Agenda on Violence Against Women: A Workshop of The

Committee on Law and Justice and The National Research Council’s Division on

Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. Washington, D.C.

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Williams, Kirk R. (2004). Results of the exit interviews for the Palliative Care Initiative.

Commissioned report to The Colorado Trust, Denver, CO.

Williams, Kirk R. (2004). Results of The Colorado Trust Grantee Survey. Commissioned

report to The Colorado Trust, Denver, CO.

Williams, Kirk R. and Nancy G. Guerra (2005). Improving the Quality, Expanding the

Reach and Unleashing the Potential of After-School Programming in Colorado.

Commissioned report to The Colorado Trust, Denver, CO.

Strom, Kevin, Kelle Barrick, Angela Browne, Kirk R. Williams, and Robert Nash Parker

(2010). Anticipating the future based on analysis of the past: Intercity variation in

youth homicide, 1984-2006. A final report to the National Institute of Justice.

Washington DC.

Guerra, Nancy G., Kirk R. Williams, Ian Walker, and Julie Meeks-Gardner (2010).

Building an ecology of peace in Jamaica: New approaches to understanding

youth crime and violence and evaluating prevention strategies. Final report to The

World Bank, Washington, DC.

Barno, Matt, Deyanira Nevarez Martinez, and Kirk R.Williams (Supervisor) (2019a).

Orange County Superior Court Pretrial Assessment and Release Supervision

(PARS) Assessment Tool Validation. Final report to the Superior Court.

Barno, Matt, Kirk R. Williams, and Deyanira Nevarez Martinez (2019b). Orange County

Superior Court Pretrial Assessment and Release Supervision (PARS) Assessment

Tool Validation. Report on testing for potential bias in the assessments by race,

ethnicity, and gender.

Barno, Matt and Kirk R. Williams (2019c). Orange County Superior Court Pretrial

Assessment and Release Supervision (PARS) Assessment Tool Validation. Report

on testing whether the assessment instrument (VPRAI) can be improved in

predicting failure to appear in court.

Major Federal and Foundation Grants

Williams, Kirk R. (PI) and Murray A. Straus (Co-PI). Justifiable and Criminal Homicide

of Family Members, Acquaintances, and Strangers: Regional, Cultural, and

Environmental Factors. National Institute of Justice (1985-1987, $126,594)

Williams, Kirk R. (PI) and Murray A. Straus (Co-PI). Panel Survey of Deterrence

Processes. National Science Foundation (1986-1989, $253,892)

Williams, Kirk R. (PI). Supplemental Homicide Report Study. subcontract from the

National Study of the Incidence of Missing Children (Gerald Hotaling and David

Finkelhor, PIs), Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (1987-

1988, $56,035)

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Elliott, Delbert (Founding Director) and Kirk R. Williams (Founding Associate Director).

Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence. The Carnegie Corporation of

New York (1992-1994, $600,000)

Elliott, Delbert (Founding Director) and Kirk R. Williams (Founding Associate Director).

Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence. The Carnegie Corporation of

New York (1994-1996, $700,000)

Elliott, Delbert (PI) and Kirk R. Williams (Co-PI). Schools and Violence. The W. T.

Grant Foundation (1994-1996, $202,214)

Williams, Kirk R. (PI) and Delbert Elliott (Co-PI). Technical Assistance Grant to Provide

Violence-Related and Evaluation Assistance for The Colorado Trust's Violence

Prevention Initiative. The Colorado Trust (1995-2000, $430,000)

Elliott, Delbert (Founding Director) and Kirk R. Williams (Founding Associate Director).

Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence. The Carnegie Corporation of

New York (1996-1998, $600,000)

Williams, Kirk R. (PI), Delbert Elliott (Co-PI), and Nancy G. Guerra (Co-PI). Human

Development and Violence Prevention. The Annie E. Casey Foundation (1995-

1996, $50,000; 1996-1997, $200,000)

Fagan, Jeffrey (PI) and Kirk R. Williams (Co-PI). Lethal and Non-Lethal Adolescent

Violence: Social, Economic, and Neighborhood Risk Factors. Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention (1996-1999, $749,982)

Williams, Kirk R. (PI) and Fred Pampel (Co-PI), Colorado Domestic Violence Risk

Reduction Project. Violence Against Women Grants Office, Office of Justice

Programs, U. S. Department of Justice: Subcontract from the Office of Probation

Services, State Court Administrator’s Office, State of Colorado (1997– 2000,

$282,237)

Williams, Kirk R. (PI). Preventing Youth Handgun Violence in Colorado. The Colorado

Trust (1999–2002, $350,000)

Guerra, Nancy G. (PI), Kirk R. Williams (Co-PI), and Robert Nash Parker (Co-PI).

Healthy Schools/Healthy Places. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services

Administration (SAMHSA) (1999–2002, $814,743)

Guerra, Nancy G. (PI), Kirk R. Williams (Co-PI), Robert Nash Parker (Co-PI), and

Lyndee Knox (Co-PI). Southern California Center of Academic Excellence in

Youth Violence Prevention (ACE-UCR). Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention (2000–2003, $1,200,000)

Guerra, Nancy G. (PI), Kirk R. Williams (Co-PI), Robert Nash Parker (Co-PI), and

Lyndee Knox (Co-PI). Southern California Center of Academic Excellence in

Youth Violence Prevention (ACE-UCR). Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention (2003-2005, $774,000)

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Guerra, Nancy G. (PI), Kirk R. Williams (Co-PI), Robert Nash Parker (Co-PI), and

Lyndee Knox (Co-PI). Southern California Center of Academic Excellence in

Youth Violence Prevention (ACE-UCR). Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention (2005-2010, $4,300,000)

Williams, Kirk R. (PI) and Angela Browne (PI), and Kevin Strom (Co-PI). Anticipating

the future based on analysis of the past: Intercity variation in youth homicide,

1984-2006. National Institute of Justice (2007–2010, subcontract from RTI

International, $89,250)

Guerra, Nancy (PI), Kirk R. Williams (Co-PI), and Jessie Borelli (Co-PI). A

Comprehensive Parent-Child Prevention Program for Youth Violence: The

YEA/MADRES Program. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2017-

2020, $995,000).

Other Grants and Contracts

Williams, Kirk R. (PI). Equipment grant from the Office of Research Administration. The

University of New Hampshire (in support of the Justifiable and Criminal

Homicide Project, 1986, $3,500)

White, Susan (PI), Ellen Cohn, Sally Ward, and Kirk R. Williams (Co-PI). Physical and

Sexual Aggression on Campus." The University of New Hampshire (1987-1988,

$11,005)

White, Susan (PI), Ellen Cohn, Sally Ward, and Kirk R. Williams (Co-PI). Reducing the

Incidence of Unwanted Sexual Experiences on the UNH Campus. The University

of New Hampshire (1987-1988, $6,950)

Williams Kirk R. (PI). Predicting the Risk of Interpersonal Violence: A Cross-Sectional

and Longitudinal Analysis. The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (1991,

$23,222)

Williams, Kirk R. (PI) and Delbert Elliott (Co-PI). Monitoring Violence in Colorado.

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (1993, $20,000)

Williams, Kirk R. (PI) and Delbert Elliott (Co-PI). Documenting the Violence Problem in

Colorado. Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (1994,

$12,000)

Mattson, Brian A. (PI) and Kirk R. Williams (Co-PI). Validation of the Colorado Youth

Offender Level of Supervision Inventory (CYO-LSI). Office of Youth Services,

Department of Human Services, State of Colorado (1995-1996, $80,608; 1996-

1997, $104,488)

Williams, Kirk R. (PI). A Study of Youth Handgun Violence. The Colorado Trust (1997-

1998, $100,000)

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Williams, Kirk R. (PI) and Robert Nash Parker (Co-PI). Youth gang prevention project.

Supplement to the Presley Center for Crime and Justice Studies budget from the

University of California Office of the President (2008-2010, $200,000)

Guerra, Nancy G. (PI) and Kirk R. Williams (Co-PI). Cure Violence: Improving

Childhood and neighborhood outcomes through reductions in violence.

Subcontract from the University of Illinois at Chicago (2017-2019, $150,000).

Williams, Kirk R. (PI). Evaluation of the Orange County Superior Court Pre-Trial

Release and Supervision Program (PARS). Orange County Superior Court

(2016, $7.000).

Burton, Candace W. (PI) and Kirk R. Williams (Co-PI) Reporting Intimate Violence:

Expectations and Experiences among Women of Color. Initiative to End Family

Violence, University of California, Irvine (2017-2018, $30,965).

Williams, Kirk R. (PI) and Candace W. Burton (Co-PI) Predicting Lethal Intimate

Partner Violence (IPV): A Comparison of Lethal and Nonlethal IPV in

California and Connecticut. Initiative to End Family Violence, University of

California, Irvine (2018-2019, $12,000).

Williams, Kirk R. (PI) Predicting and Preventing Lethal Intimate Partner Violence

(IPV): An Analysis of Gun-Involved IPV. University of California Firearm

Violence Center (Small Grants Program), University of California, Irvine

(2019-2020, $10,00).

Selected Consultations

Williams, Kirk R. Violence and Threats of Violence Against Men and Women. Center for

Policy Research, Denver, CO (1993-1996)

Williams, Kirk R. Educare Colorado. Facilitation, clarification of outcome objectives,

and selection of an independent evaluator (1999–2000)

Williams, Kirk R. and Lyndee Knox (Co-PI). Best Practices in Philanthropy. Preparation

of a background report for The Colorado Trust’s Strategic Planning Process,

Denver, CO (2000)

Williams, Kirk R. Qualistar Early Learning. Managing the RAND Corporation

evaluation (2000–2007)

Williams, Kirk R. Connecticut’s Family Violence Risk Assessment Project. Implementing

and evaluating the Domestic Violence Screening Instrument-Revised (2002 -

present)

Williams, Kirk R. Palliative Care Funding Initiative: An Assessment. The Colorado Trust

(2003-2004)

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Williams, Kirk R. Grantee Satisfaction Survey. The Colorado Trust (2004)

Williams, Kirk R. and Nancy G. Guerra. After-School Assessment Survey. The Colorado

Trust (2004)

Williams, Kirk R. and Nancy G. Guerra. Evaluating the Effectiveness of Interventions to

Promote Positive Bystander Behavior in Bullying Episodes. The Colorado Trust

(2005-2009)

Williams, Kirk R. Cleveland Municipal Court Family Violence Risk Assessment Project.

Training on the DVSI-R (2011)

Williams, Kirk R. Delaware’s Family Violence Risk Assessment Project. Implementing

and evaluating the Domestic Violence Screening Instrument-Revised (2013)

Williams, Kirk R. Vermont’s Family Violence Risk Assessment Project. Training on the

DVSI-R (2013)

Williams, Kirk R. Massachusetts’s Family Violence Risk Assessment Project. Training

on the DVSI-R (2016)

Williams, Kirk R. Erie County, New York Family Violence Risk Assessment Project.

Training on the DVSI-R (2017)

Williams, Kirk R. Wyoming’s Family Violence Risk Assessment Project. Training on

the DVSI-R (2018)

Williams, Kirk R. New York’s Family Violence Risk Assessment Project. Training on

the DVSI-R (2018)

Williams, Kirk R. South Dakota’s Family Violence Risk Assessment Project. Training

on the DVSI-R (2019)

University and Administrative Service (last five years)

Member Master of Advanced Study in Criminology, Law & Society Advisory Committee

(2016) University of California, Irvine

Member Graduate Student Interview Committee (2016) University of California, Irvine

Member Steering Committee of the Initiative to End Family Violence (2016 to present)

University of California, Irvine

Member Comprehensive Examination Committee, University of California, Irvine

(2018)

Member Ad Hoc Committee on Undergraduate Learning, University of California,

Irvine (2016-2017).

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Member Ad Hoc Committee on Graduate Learning, University of California, Irvine

(2017-2018)

Chair, Personnel Committee, University of California, Irvine (2018)

Member, Personnel Committee, University of California, Irvine (2019)

Member, Social Ecology Curriculum Committee, University of California, Irvine (2019

to present)

Selected Community Outreach and Other Professional Activities

Connecticut Family Violence Risk Assessment Project, Invited presentation to the

Connecticut Family Court Judges (2006)

Connecticut Family Violence Risk Assessment Project, Invited presentation to the

Connecticut Department of Corrections (2006)

Connecticut Family Violence Risk Assessment Project, Invited presentation to

Connecticut Probation Officers (2007)

Findings on Bullying in Colorado Schools, Invited Keynote Speaker for the Bullying

Prevention Initiative Conference, Colorado Springs, CO (2008)

Member Review Panel, Injury Research Grant Review Committee, National Center for

Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA, (2008)

Connecticut Family Violence Risk Assessment Project, Invited presentation to Family

Services, Court Support Services Division, State of Connecticut (2008)

Promoting evidence based practice among California County Departments of Probation,

Governor’s Office of Gangs and Youth Violence Policy (January of 2009 to 2011)

Member Orange County Domestic Violence Death Review Team (2016 to present)

Manuscript Reviewer: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Journal of Conflict

Resolution, Deviant Behavior, Social Forces, American Sociological Review,

Sociology and Social Research, Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and

Delinquency, Law and Society Review, Social Science Quarterly, Violence and

Victims (founding editorial board member), Science, The Sociological Quarterly,

American Journal of Sociology, Social Problems, Journal of Comparative Family

Studies, Sociological Perspectives, American Journal of Public Health, Journal of

Quantitative Criminology, Justice Quarterly, Journal of Preventive Medicine,

Sociological Theory, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Homicide Studies,

Aggressive Behavior

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Proposal Reviewer: National Science Foundation, National Institute of Justice, Centers

for Disease Control and Prevention, The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation,

W. T. Grant Foundation, The Annie E. Casey Foundation, The Colorado Trust

Courses Taught

Undergraduate: Criminology, Deviant Behavior, Field Problems in Social Research,

Honors Seminar: The Death Penalty, Juvenile Delinquency, Research Methods,

Statistical Analysis, Social Problems, Sociology of Crime and Justice, Family Violence,

Special Topics: Men and Violence against Women, Violence in America, Social Control

Graduate Seminars: Collective Behavior and Political Violence, Criminology, Deviant

Behavior, Juvenile Delinquency, Law and Society, Punishment and Corrections,

Domestic and Sexual Violence, Special Topics in Criminology, Research Seminar in

Criminology, Contemporary Theory and Research in Criminology and Socio-Legal

Studies, Research Design, Criminological Theory and Empirical Tests, Research to

Practice, Seminar in Social Ecology