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Raymond Swisher
rswishe@bgsu.edu
(419)372 -8054
Curriculum vita
Associate Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999
Dr. Swisher’s research employs a life course perspective to understanding risk factors in the lives of low income families
and youth. A central theme emerging from this research is the role of violence in the lives of poor families. He has examined
the detrimental effects of exposure to neighborhood violence on adolescent well-being (depression, survival expectations),
how adolescents adapt to community violence with violence of their own, and the prevalence of domestic violence and other
risk factors among unmarried parents. In more recent work (with Maureen Waller), he has studied the effects of father’s incarceration
on relationship stability with mothers and involvement with non-residential children, as well as variations in these relationships
across White, African-American, and Latino families. Most recently, he has begun a project (with Danielle Payne and Jorge
Chavez) examining trajectories of violence in the transition to adulthood, and how these trajectories are related to changing
neighborhood conditions and other life course transitions. This project utilizes newly available data that he produced as
part of the Wave III Contextual Database of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health.
Recent Publications:
Leblanc, Line, Raymond R. Swisher, Richard Tremblay, and Frank Vitaro. (Forthcoming). “Antisocial behavior and high school
social climate: A 10 year longitudinal and multilevel study.” Journal of Research on Adolescence.
Swisher, Raymond R. and Robert Latzman. (Forthcoming). “Youth Violence as Adaptation? Introduction to the Special Issue” Journal of Community Psychology.
Swisher, Raymond R. and Maureen R. Waller. (Forthcoming). “Confining Fatherhood: Incarceration and Paternal Involvement among
Unmarried White, African American, and Latino Fathers.” Journal of Family Issues.
Swisher, Raymond R. (Forthcoming). “Wave III Contextual Database: National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health.” Carolina
Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Swisher, Raymond R. (2008). “Neighborhoods and Youth: How neighborhood demographics and social processes affect youth outcomes.”
The Prevention Researcher. 15(2):7-10.
LeBlanc, Line, Raymond R. Swisher, Frank Vitaro, and Richard E. Tremblay. (2007). “School social climate and teachers’ perceptions
of classroom behavior problems: a 10 year longitudinal and multilevel study.” Social Psychology of Education. 10(4):429-442.
Waller, Maureen and Raymond R. Swisher. “Fathers' Risk Factors in Fragile Families: Implications for 'Healthy' Relationships
and Father Involvement.” (2006). Social Problems. 53(3):392-420.
Sweet, Stephen, Raymond R. Swisher, and Phyllis Moen. (2005) “Selecting and Assessing the Family-Friendly Community: Adaptive
Strategies of Middle-Class Dual-Earner Couples.” Family Relations. 54(5):596-606.
Romano, Elisa, Richard Tremblay, Bernard Boulerice, and Raymond R. Swisher. (2005). “Multilevel Correlates of Childhood Physical
Aggression and Prosocial Behavior.” Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. 33(5):565-578.
Latzman, Robert, and Raymond R. Swisher. (2005). “The Interactive Relationship Among Adolescent Violence, Street Violence,
and Depression.” Journal of Community Psychology. 33(3):355-71.
Swisher, Raymond R., Stephen Sweet, and Phyllis Moen. (2004). “The Family-Friendly Community and its Life Course Fit for Dual-Earner
Couples.” Journal of Marriage and Family. 66(May):281-92.
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