Anticipated Graduation:  June 2018

Christopher FlemingProfessional and Research Interests:  Christopher’s research focuses on the development and prevention of problematic youth behavior, with an emphasis on high-risk and underserved youth groups.  His experience working with incarcerated, gang-involved, and runaway youth provides a foundation for his research examining the influence of environmental risk and protective factors in the development of youth delinquency, substance use, risky sex, and gang involvement with the goal of generating effective prevention programming.  His dissertation focuses on the effects of a community-based universal prevention system in preventing gang association among rural and small town youth.  Christopher is interested in teaching research methods, child and adolescent development, poverty and inequality, and prevention science.

Email:  cmf45@uw.edu