Victim Researcher Profile

BIO

Bruce Taylor, Ph.D., has 25 years of experience in applied research and evaluation. Dr. Taylor has led more than a dozen field experiments covering a variety of public safety/public health topics and has conducted longitudinal research and national surveys regarding victimization and offending. As a criminologist, he has focused on identifying demographic and contextual explanations for a variety of forms of violent behaviors and related risky behaviors. Funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), his research has included studies of the psychological recovery process of rape victims, correlates of post-crime distress for crime victims receiving victim services, and the effects of a joint police and social service response to the problem of domestic and sexual violence affecting partners, the elderly, and children. Dr. Taylor’s other experimental research has included the effectiveness of batterer treatment programs, violence prevention for pre-adolescent girls, the Shifting Boundaries teen dating violence prevention program and, under contract to the CDC, the effectiveness of the Dating Matters™ violence prevention middle school initiative. Dr. Taylor is co-PI of the NIJ-funded longitudinal national Survey on Teen Relationships and Violence (STRiV) and was co-PI of the first National Census of Victim Service Providers. Dr. Taylor is working with the Family Justice Center of the Montgomery County (MD) Office of the Sheriff to assist them in their research and evaluation planning activities. Dr. Taylor is teaming with Boston University and Northeastern University in developing a new adolescent dating abusing instrument for NIJ. Dr. Taylor is also working with a number of local law enforcement agencies in developing community infused problem-solving interventions to proactively address hot spots of violence and evaluate the effectiveness of these interventions.

VICTIMIZATION FOCUS

Bullying, Campus Sexual Assault, Child Abuse and Sexual Abuse, Dating Violence (Teen), Domestic and Family Violence, Physical Assault (other than domestic violence or elder abuse), Sexual Abuse or Violence (other than campus sexual assault)

SPECIAL POPULATIONS

Child victims, LGBTQ victims, Men and boys of color, Male victims generally, Older victims, Urban high crime neighborhood victims

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

Action research, Data collection, Needs assessment, Program evaluation, Qualitative studies, Quantitative studies, Quasi-experimental studies, Randomized controlled trial, Training and/or technical assistance

VICTIM RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Data collection, Needs assessment, Program evaluation, Qualitative studies, Quantitative studies, Quasi-experimental studies, Randomized controlled trial