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Research Interests
Dr. Perkins’ research focuses on citizen participation, empowerment,
and social and environmental change through grassroots community organizing
and development and the use of social research in public policy making. The
problems his research, teaching, and consultation have addressed include
neighborhood revitalization, housing, crime and delinquency, fear of crime,
and social and physical disorder in the urban residential environment. He
studies and consults with community voluntary associations, non-profit
organizations, and government agencies responding to such problems. His conceptual orientation stresses ecological systems frameworks
and multiple levels of analysis (individuals, families, organizations,
communities). His populations of interest include neighborhood residents and
leaders, the disenfranchised, low-income, minorities, and at risk youths.
Dr. Perkins taught
Criminal Justice at Temple University (1986-89), Environment & Behavior
and Family & Consumer Studies at the University
of Utah (1989-2000), and was
the first Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of
Human and Organizational Development at Peabody College,
Vanderbilt (2000-2003). He is a Fellow of the Society
for Community Research & Action and has been SCRA liaison to the Community Development Society, the Environmental Design Research Association,
and the Urban Affairs Association.
He
founded and directed the interdisciplinary Center for
Community Studies (CCS) at Vanderbilt from 2004-2008, now coordinates
its
International Communities Work Group, and is a member of the Healthy
Communities, Organizational
Change, Urban
Neighborhoods, and Religion,
Spirituality, and Community Work Groups.
The CCS is affiliated with the Community
Action-Research Centers network of the Society
for Community Research & Action.
Many CCS researchers and visitors have connected with others around
the world, particularly in studying issues related
to the development and use of organized power in community [see International
Research Network Proposal].
The new Center was launched at the Interdisciplinary
Community Research Working Conference, cosponsored by Vanderbilt
University and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, held May 21-23, 2004, at
Peabody College’s Wyatt Center, and published as a special
issue of the American Journal of Community Psychology on
Community-based Interdisciplinary Research.
Perkins is also core
faculty in, and a former Coordinator of, Vanderbilt University’s
Interdisciplinary Program in
Social Psychology, which is currently inactive.
Current/Recent
Projects
Nashville Urban
Partnership Academic Center of Excellence (NUPACE) for Youth Violence
Prevention Research | Organizational
Networks Project
VICTR
(CTSA) Community Engaged Research Program (CERP)
Collaborations with Italian community/developmental
psychologists at the Università degli Studi di Padova Facolta
di Psicologià and Laboratorio
LINK
The development of community studies and local democratic
institutions & processes in China
| 2007
CCS Field School in Guangxi, China
Hidden
Costs of Homelessness in Nashville | Mayor's 2004
Task Force on Homelessness | Strategic
Framework to End Chronic Homelessness in Nashville | News Article
New SPECs: Changing Paradigms in Human Services (Co-PI) |
Project
Structure and Overview of Work Plan
Learning
Communities & Community Organizations, funded by the Learning Sciences
Institute
Nashville
Immigrant Community Assessment (CoPI)
South
Nashville Community Needs & Assets Assessment
Past Major Research Projects:
Neighborhood
Revitalization & Disorder: An Intervention Evaluation (1997-2000; funded by
National Institute of Justice; PI: Barbara Brown; Co-PI: Doug Perkins)
Neighborhood
Assessment: West Salt Lake City Revitalization Initiative (1993-95) Part of
Demonstration Grant from U.S. Dept. Housing & Urban Development to Salt
Lake City Dept. Community & Economic Development (PI)
Mental Health: Adaptive Coping with Urban Crime & Fear (1986-88; funded
by the National Institute of Mental Health; PI: Ralph
Taylor; Director: Doug Perkins)
Block Boosters: The Role of Block Associations in Community Development &
Crime Prevention (1984-86; funded by Ford Foundation; PIs: David Chavis, Paul Florin, Richard Rich, Abe
Wandersman) + Participation and
the social and physical environment of residential blocks: Crime and
community context (1985-86; funded by National Institute of Justice; PI:
Douglas Perkins) + Block Boosters, Revisited (1992 follow-up study; PI:
Perkins)
Selected Publications (full text or additional resources
as indicated; VITA: DOUGLAS
D. PERKINS):
Perkins, D.D. (in press). The
death of community psychology (& the development of community research
& action) in the United States: Issues of theoretical,
methodological, & practical diversity. First International
Conference on Community Psychology.
Perkins, D.D., Larsen, C., & Brown,
B.B. (2009). Mapping urban revitalization: Using GIS spatial analysis to
evaluate a new housing policy. Journal of Prevention & Intervention in
the Community, 37(1), 48-65. [special issue on GIS
applications in community psychology]
Santinello,
M., Martini, E.R., & Perkins, D.D. (in press). Community psychology in Italy: Introduction
and prospects. Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community.
Dallago, L., Cristini, F., Perkins, D.D., Nation, M., & Santinello,
M. (in press). The adolescents, life Context & School Project:
Youth voice and civic participation. Journal of Prevention &
Intervention in the Community [special issue on community psychology
in Italy]
Perkins,
D. D. (in press). International community psychology: Development and
challenges. American Journal of Community Psychology.
Dallago, L., Perkins, D. D., Santinello, M., Boyce, W., Molcho, M., & Morgan, A. (in press). Adolescent place
attachment, social capital, & perceived safety: A comparison of 13
countries. American Journal of Community Psychology.
Bess, K.D.,
Prilleltensky, I., Perkins, D.D., & Collins, L. (in press). Participation
for Community Well-Being in Health and Human Services: Between Tokenism and
Meaningful Political Engagement. American Journal of Community Psychology.
Robinson,
J., & Perkins, D.D. (in press). Social development needs assessment in
China: Lessons from an international collaborative field school in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. China Journal of Social
Work.
Christens, B., & Perkins, D.D. (2008). Transdisciplinary, multilevel action research to enhance
ecological and psycho-political validity. Journal of Community Psychology,
36, 214-231.
Nation,
M., Vieno, A., Perkins, D.D., & Santinello, M. (2008). Bullying in school
and adolescent sense of empowerment: An analysis of relationships with
parents, friends, and teachers. Journal of Community and Applied Social
Psychology, 18, 211-232.
Perkins,
D.D., Bess, K., Cooper, D.G., Jones, D. Armstead, T., & Speer, P.W.
(2007). Community organizational learning: Case studies illustrating a
three-dimensional model of levels and orders of change. Journal of
Community Psychology, 35,
307-332.
Dupéré, V., & Perkins, D.D. (2007). Block
types and mental health: An ecological study of local environmental stress
and coping. American Journal of Community Psychology, 39, 107-119.
Long,
D. A. & Perkins, D. D. (2007). Community social and place predictors of
sense of community: A multilevel and longitudinal analysis. Journal of
Community Psychology, 35,
563-581.
Voorhees,
C.C.W., Vick, J., & Perkins, D.D. (2007). “Came hell and high
water:” The intersection of Hurricane Katrina, the news media, and
poverty. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 17, 415-429.
Vieno,
A., Santinello, M., Pastore, M., & Perkins,
D.D. (2007). Social support, sense of community in school, and self-efficacy
as resources during early adolescence: An integrative, model. American
Journal of Community Psychology, 39,
177-190.
Vieno,
A., Nation, M., Perkins, D.D., & Santinello, M. (2007). Civic
participation and the development of adolescent behavior problems. Journal
of Community Psychology, 35,
761-777.
Hanlin, C. E., Bess, K., Conway, P., Evans, S.
D., McCown, D., Prilleltensky, I., & Perkins, D. D. (2007). Community
psychology [chapter 28]. In C. Willig & W. S.
Rogers (Eds.), The Handbook of Qualitative
Methods in Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Maton,
K., Perkins, D.D., & Saegert, S. (2006). Community psychology at the
crossroads: Prospects for interdisciplinary theory, research and action. American
Journal of Community Psychology, 38(1-2), 9-21..
Maton,
K., Perkins, D.D., Altman, D.G., Gutierrez, L., Kelly, J.G., Rappaport, J.,
& Saegert, S. (2006). Community-based interdisciplinary research:
Introduction to the special issue. American Journal of Community
Psychology, 38(1-2), 1-7.
Manzo,
L.C., & Perkins, D.D. (2006). Neighborhoods as common ground: The importance of place attachment to
community participation and development. Journal of Planning Literature,
20, 335-350. (one of the top 10 most-read (downloaded) articles in JPL
history)
Levine,M., Perkins, D.D., &
Perkins, D.V. (2005). Principles of community psychology: Perspectives and
Applications (3rd Edition). New York: Oxford University Press.
Vieno, A., Perkins, D.D., Smith, T.M., &
Santinello, M. (2005). Democratic school climate and sense of
community in school: A multilevel analysis. American Journal of Community
Psychology, 36, 327-341.
Perkins,
D.D., Crim, B., Silberman,
P. & Brown, B.B. (2004). Community development as a response to
community-level adversity: Ecological theory and research and strengths-based
policy. In K.I. Maton, C.J. Schellenbach, B.J. Leadbeater & A.L. Solarz
(Eds.), Investing in children, youth, families and communities:
Strengths-based research and policy
(pp. 321-340). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. [Links
to Community Development Resources on the Internet]
Brown, B.B., Perkins, D.D. & Brown, G.
(2004). Crime, new housing, and housing incivilities in a first ring suburb:
Multilevel relationships across time. Housing Policy Debate, 15(2),
301-345.
Brown,
B.B., Perkins, D. D., & Brown, G. (2004). Incivilities, place attachment
and crime: Block and individual effects. Journal
of Environmental Psychology, 24, 359-371.
Brown,
G., Brown, B.B., & Perkins, D.D. (2004). New housing as neighborhood
revitalization: Place attachment and confidence among residents. Environment and Behavior, 36, 749-775.
Brown,
B.B., Perkins, D. D., & Brown, G. (2003). Place attachment in a
revitalizing neighborhood: Individual and block levels of analysis. Journal
of Environmental Psychology, 23, 259-271.
Long,
D.A., & Perkins, D.D. (2003). Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Sense
of Community Index and Development of a Brief SCI. Journal of Community
Psychology, 31, 279-296.
Speer,
P.W., & Perkins, D.D. (2003). Community organizations, agencies and
groups: Significance for children and
teens. In J.W. Guthrie (Ed.), Encyclopedia
of Education (2nd Ed.)(pp. 431-441).
New York: Macmillan.
Robinson,
J.B., Lawton, B.A., Taylor, R.B., & Perkins, D.D. (2003). Multilevel
longitudinal impacts of incivilities: Fear of crime, expected safety, and
block satisfaction. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 19(3),
237-274.
Perkins,
D.D., Hughey, J., & Speer, P.W. (2002). Community psychology perspectives
on social capital theory and community development practice. Journal of
the Community Development Society, 33(1), 33-52.
Perkins,
D.D., & Long, D.A. (2002). Neighborhood sense of community and social
capital: A multi-level analysis. In A. Fisher, C. Sonn, & B. Bishop
(Eds.), Psychological sense of community: Research, applications, and
implications (pp. 291-318). New York: Plenum.
Perkins,
D.D. (2002). Community psychology, planning and learning: An applied social
ecology approach to sustainable development. In I. Falk (Ed.), Learning to
manage change: Developing regional communities for a local-global millennium
(pp. 37-44). Adelaide: NCVER.
Nation, M., Wandersman, A.,
& Perkins, D.D. (2002). Promoting healthy communities through community
development. In L. Jason & D. Glenwick (Eds.), Innovative
strategies for preventing psychological problems (pp. 324-344).
New York: Springer.
Webster,
L. & Perkins, D.D. (2001).
Redressing structural violence against children: Empowerment-based
interventions and research. In D.J.
Christie, R.V. Wagner & D.D. Winter (Eds.), Peace, conflict, and
violence: Peace psychology for the 21st century (pp. 330-340). Upper Saddle River,
NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Perkins,
D.D. (2000). Research, teaching, and service in applied, multidisciplinary
academic programs and in community organizations. Journal of Prevention
and Intervention in the Community, 19(2), 121-128. (also published in O'Donnell,
C.R., & Ferrari, J.R. (Eds.)(2000). Employment in community
psychology: The diversity of opportunity. New York:
Haworth Press.)
Perkins,
D.D., Brown, B.B., & Taylor, R.B. (1996). The ecology of empowerment:
Predicting participation in community organizations. Journal of Social
Issues, 52, 85-110. (issue on Psychology of Grassroots Organizing)
Perkins,
D.D., & Taylor, R.B. (1996). Ecological assessments of community
disorder: Their relationship to fear of crime and theoretical implications. American
Journal of Community Psychology, 24, 63-107. (to be reprinted by Plenum in a volume of the most important articles
of the first 25 years of AJCP)
Taylor, R.B., Koons, B.A., Kurtz, E.M.,
Greene, J.R., & Perkins, D.D. (1995). Street blocks with more
nonresidential land use have more physical deterioration: Evidence from
Baltimore and Philadelphia. Urban Affairs Review, 31, 120-136.
Perkins, D.D. (1995). Speaking truth to power:
Empowerment ideology as social intervention and policy. American Journal of
Community Psychology, 23, 765-794.
Perkins,
D.D., & Zimmerman, M.A. (1995). Empowerment theory, research, and
application. American Journal of Community Psychology, 23, 569-579.
Perkins,
D.D., Wandersman, A., Rich, R.C., & Taylor,
R.B. (1993). The physical environment of street crime: Defensible space,
territoriality and incivilities. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 13,
29-49.
Perkins,
D.D., Meeks, J.W., & Taylor, R.B. (1992). The physical environment of
street blocks and resident perceptions of crime and disorder: Implications
for theory and measurement. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 12,
21-34.
Brown,
B.B., & Perkins, D.D. (1992). Disruptions in place attachment. In I.
Altman and S. Low (Eds.), Place attachment (pp. 279-304). Volume 12 in
the series "Human behavior and the environment: Advances in theory and
research." New York: Plenum.
Perkins,
D.D., Florin, P., Rich, R.C., Wandersman, A. & Chavis, D.M. (1990). Participation and the social and
physical environment of residential blocks: Crime and community context. American
Journal of Community Psychology, 18, 83-115.
Perkins,
D.D., & Wandersman, A. (1990). "You'll
have to work to overcome our suspicions:" Benefits and pitfalls of
research with community organizations. Social Policy, 21 (1), 32-41.
Perkins,
D.D. (1988). The use of social science in public interest litigation: A role
for community psychologists. American Journal of Community Psychology
(Special Issue: Law and Community Psychology), 16, 465-485.
Teaching Philosophy and
Methods
Dr. Perkins' teaching philosophy
and methods (class size permitting) emphasize a participatory seminar format,
collegial atmosphere, and relevant and experiential learning. He was awarded
the Borchard Service-Learning Faculty Fellowship at
the University of Utah and encourages students to go off campus and focus on
the real world. His students look at the community settings they live and
work in and identify real-life social or environmental issues affecting them
and then study and try to solve them systematically.
Courses
developed and taught (VU=Vanderbilt
University; UU=University
of Utah; TU=Temple
University; NYU=New York University;
syllabi available):
Global Dimensions of Community Development
(VU)
Community
Development and Urban Policy (VU)
Community Psychology (VU, UU, NYU)
Graduate
Seminar in Community Psychology (VU)
Advanced
Graduate Seminar in Psychology and Environmental Change (VU)
Graduate Thesis Development Seminar (VU, UU)
Social
Research Methods/Systematic Inquiry (VU, UU, TU)
Masters
Proseminar in Leadership & Organization and
Community Development (VU)
Community
Environments (UU)
Home
& Community Environments (UU)
Community
and Environmental Change (UU)
Capstone
Service-Learning (UU)
Community
Service & the Needs of Children (UU)
Social
Scientists and Social Policy (UU)
Community Crime Prevention
(TU)
Environmental Criminology
(TU)
Planned
Organizational and Community Change (TU)
Urban
Crime Patterns (TU)
Introduction
to Criminal Justice (TU)
Professional
Affiliations and Service (including various committee, editorial, and liaison
activities):
Society for Community
Research & Action <http://www.scra27.org/>
Community Development
Society <http://www.comm-dev.org/>
Environmental Design
Research Association <http://www.edra.org>
Urban Affairs Association < http://www.udel.edu/uaa/
>
Nashville Urban Design
Forum <http://www.civicdesigncenter.org>
Sample Service-Learning/Consultation Projects:
Plan of Nashville Project and
Book
Davidson County Metro Development & Housing Agency
and Planning Department:
Impacts
Of Nashville Housing Redevelopment Projects. A
pilot study by students in HOD 2600/3600: Community Development & Urban
Policy in the Department of Human & Organizational Development, Peabody
College, Vanderbilt University.
Cumberland Region Tomorrow
Smart Growth Visioning Workshop Training and Group Facilitation
Utah Issues (affordable housing
advocacy and community organizing/development)
Envision Utah (Social and Crime
Impact Committees)
Recent Presentations:
Immigrazione
e disordine percepito: Paura del crimine o Xenofobia? [Italian TEXT] Plenaria Finale, 7° Convegno
Nazionale: La Prevenzione Nella Scuola E Nella Comunità: “Convivenze,
paure e reti informali”, Universita’ Degli Studi Di Padova, Dipartimento
Di Psicologia Dello Sviluppo E Della Socializzazione, Padova, Italia, 27 Giugno
2009
Immigrazione
e disordine percepito: Paura del crimine o Xenofobia? [Italian SLIDES] Plenaria Finale, 7° Convegno
Nazionale: La Prevenzione Nella Scuola E Nella Comunità: “Convivenze,
paure e reti informali”, Universita’ Degli Studi Di Padova, Dipartimento
Di Psicologia Dello Sviluppo E Della Socializzazione, Padova, Italia, 27 Giugno
2009
Immigration
and Perceived Disorder: Fear of Crime or Xenophobia? [English TEXT] Closing Plenary, 7th National Convention
on Prevention in Schools and Community: “Living Together, Fear and
informal networks”, University of Padua, Department of Developmental
& Social Psychology, Padua, Italy, June 27, 2009
Immigration
and Perceived Disorder: Fear of Crime or Xenophobia? [English SLIDES] Closing Plenary, 7th National Convention
on Prevention in Schools and Community: “Living Together, Fear and
informal networks”, University of Padua, Department of Developmental
& Social Psychology, Padua, Italy, June 27, 2009
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