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Ray Swisher received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, before pursuing postdoctoral research with
the National Consortium on Violence Research (University of Montreal) and the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center (Cornell).
His research and teaching interests are in the areas of family and crime and deviance. Most broadly, he uses a life course
perspective to examine risk factors in the lives of low income families and youth. A central theme emerging from this research
is the role of violence, including the effects of exposure to neighborhood violence on adolescent well-being (depression,
survival expectations), adolescent violence as adaptation to community violence, and domestic violence and other risk factors
in the lives of unmarried parents. In related work, he has examined the effects of father’s incarceration on relationships
with mothers and father involvement with non-residential children.
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