Tim St. Onge

Between 2013 and 2015, I served as a research assistant for the Clark University research team of the Shannon Community Safety Initiative (CSI). The Shannon CSI is a Massachusetts state grant program aimed at supporting multidisciplinary approaches to combating gang and youth violence through intervention, prevention, suppression, and community involvement techniques. The research team at Clark University serves as a Statewide Research Partner for the Shannon CSI and is led by Laurie Ross, Ph.D., and Ellen Foley, Ph.D. My contributions to the project included community resource mapping, hot spot analysis of crime activity, and the mapping of demographic and socioeconomic variables in Worcester. In addition to GIS-related analysis, I also extensively reviewed research on the use of social network analysis to understand informal criminal networks and social connections of youth through crime data.