Victim Researcher Profile

BIO

Ms. Wojcik is a doctoral candidate at the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. Her research focuses on victimology and crime prevention with an emphasis on community-based partnerships. She currently serves as a lead investigator on a project investing the trajectory and outcomes of child sexual abuse cases in Cincinnati, OH. She also serves as a lead evaluator for a project evaluating the Domestic Violence Enhanced Response Team (DVERT), a domestic violence service delivery program in Cincinnati, OH. To date, the DVERT evaluation project has been awarded nearly $27,000 in external grant funding. She has a background in both qualitative and quantitative methodologies and experience in data collection, entry, management and analyses, conducting interviews, and survey design and implementation. She has over six years’ experience working with a diverse group of community partners including police departments, hospitals, child advocacy centers, and domestic violence services. She also spent a year interning at a rape crisis center where she provided support and services to survivors of sexual- and gender-based violence.

VICTIMIZATION FOCUS

Campus Sexual Assault, Child Abuse and Sexual Abuse, Domestic and Family Violence, Sexual Abuse or Violence (other than campus sexual assault), Vicarious Trauma

SPECIAL POPULATIONS

Child victims, LGBTQ victims

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

Community-based participatory research, Data collection, Descriptive studies, Program evaluation, Qualitative studies, Quantitative studies, Quasi-experimental studies, Randomized controlled trial, Training and/or technical assistance

VICTIM RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Community-based participatory research, Data collection, Descriptive studies, Program evaluation, Qualitative studies, Quantitative studies