Victim Researcher Profile

BIO

Jennifer Yahner is a Senior Research Associate in Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center. She is a former National Consortium on Violence Research fellow who has been conducting criminal justice research for more than 15 years on the needs and experiences of vulnerable populations, including youth and adult victims of crime (e.g., intimate partner and teen dating violence, human trafficking, LGBTQ victimization) and formerly incarcerated individuals. She currently co-directs the Office for Victims of Crime-funded Center for Victim Research, and she directs projects on elder mistreatment prevention, costs of crime victimization, and employment retention for justice-involved individuals. She is skilled in sophisticated statistical modeling using a variety of quantitative methodologies and has published research in peer-refereed journals, including Criminology and Public Policy, Justice Quarterly, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Journal of Marriage and Family, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, and Crime and Delinquency.

VICTIMIZATION FOCUS

Child Trafficking and Exploitation, Dating Violence (Teen), Domestic and Family Violence, Elder Abuse/Mistreatment, Trafficking in Persons

SPECIAL POPULATIONS

LGBTQ victims, Older victims

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

Action research, Data collection, Descriptive studies, Program evaluation, Qualitative studies, Quantitative studies, Quasi-experimental studies, Randomized controlled trial

VICTIM RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Action research, Data collection, Descriptive studies, Qualitative studies, Randomized controlled trial