Victim Researcher Profile

BIO

For more than 30 years, Dr. Renzetti's research has focused on the violent victimization experiences of socially and economically marginalized women and girls. She founded in 1993, and continues to edit, the peer-reviewed, international and interdisciplinary journal Violence Against Women, which is published 16 times a year by Sage Publications. Dr. Renzetti is also the editor of the Gender and Justice book series for University of California Press, and co-editor of the Interpersonal Violence book series for Oxford University Press. She has written or edited 24 books as well as numerous book chapters and journal articles based on her own research. Dr. Renzetti is currently co-PI with Dr. Diane Follingstad on Department of Justice-funded evaluation of the horticultural therapy program for battered women and their children at Greenhouse 17 (formerly the Bluegrass Domestic Violence Program) in Lexington. She also studies the problem of domestic sex trafficking, including identifying gaps in the knowledge base and in rigorous and reliable data collection, and assisting health care providers and law enforcement in identifying domestic sex trafficking victims. She collaborated with Catholic Social Services in Louisville, KY on an evaluation of services for victims of trafficking. She also conducts research on the effects of religiosity and religious self-regulation on intimate partner violence perpetration and victimization.

VICTIMIZATION FOCUS

Campus Sexual Assault, Child Trafficking and Exploitation, Domestic and Family Violence, Sexual Abuse or Violence (other than campus sexual assault), Trafficking in Persons

SPECIAL POPULATIONS

Child victims, LGBTQ victims, Urban high crime neighborhood victims

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

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

VICTIM RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

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