Victim Researcher Profile

BIO

Dr. Shelly Clevenger is an Associate Professor and Chair of the first Victim Studies Department in the nation at Sam Houston State University. She has authored peer-reviewed journal publications and books on the connection between sexual assault, intimate partner abuse and cyber victimization. Dr. Clevenger presented her research on cybervictimizations at the United Nations Women in 2016 and a U.S. Congressional Briefing in 2018. Dr. Clevenger is also the recipient of the 2017 Feminist Criminology Article of the Year Award and the 2018 American Society of Criminology, Division on Women and Crime New Scholar Award. She has three books, The Virtual Enemy: The Intersection between Intimate Partner Abuse, Technology, and Cybercrime, Teaching Criminological Theory, and Understanding Victimology; An Active Learning Approach, which was the 2019 American Society of Criminology, Division of Victimology, Bob Jerin Book of the Year Award winner. She has a fourth book to be published by University of California Press in 2020, Gendering Criminology; Crime and Justice Today and a fifth book to be published in 2021 by Cognella Press, Understanding Sex Offenses. She been recognized for her teaching nationally by the American Society of Criminology, Division of Victimology, Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award and the American Society of Criminology, Division of Critical Criminology and Social Justice, Teacher of the Year Award.

VICTIMIZATION FOCUS

Child Abuse and Sexual Abuse, Computer/Internet Crimes, Sexual Abuse or Violence (other than campus sexual assault), Stalking, Vicarious Trauma

SPECIAL POPULATIONS

Child victims, LGBTQ victims, Rural victims

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

Action research, Community-based participatory research, Data collection, Ethnography, Needs assessment, Training and/or technical assistance

VICTIM RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Action research, Community-based participatory research, Data collection, Descriptive studies, Ethnography, Training and/or technical assistance