Victim Researcher Profile

BIO

Dr. Leah E. Daigle is Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. She received her Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati. Her most recent research has centered on repeat sexual victimization of college women and the development and continuation of victimization across the life course. She is coauthor of Criminals in the Making: Criminality Across the Life Course (2nd ed.) and Unsafe in the Ivory Tower: The Sexual Victimization of College Women, which was awarded the 2011 Outstanding Book Award by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and author of Victimology: A Text/Reader and Victimology: The Essentials. Her research has also appeared in peer-reviewed journals including Justice Quarterly, Victims and Offenders, The Journal of Quantitative Criminology, and The Journal of Interpersonal Violence. For the past three years, she has served as the university evaluator for OVC's Vision 21: Victim Legal Assistance Networks for Georgia.

VICTIMIZATION FOCUS

Campus Sexual Assault, Other Campus Crime, Child Abuse and Sexual Abuse, Dating Violence (Teen), Domestic and Family Violence, Vicarious Trauma

SPECIAL POPULATIONS

Formerly incarcerated victims, LGBTQ victims, Currently incarcerated victims

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

Descriptive studies, Needs assessment, Qualitative studies, Quantitative studies, Quasi-experimental studies

VICTIM RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Data collection, Descriptive studies, Needs assessment, Quantitative studies