Victim Researcher Profile

BIO

MIN XIE is an associate professor and the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at University of Maryland-College Park. She received her BA and MA in information management from Peking University and her PhD in criminal justice from University at Albany, SUNY. Her research interests include theories of criminal victimization; race/ethnicity, gender and, immigration; multilevel and longitudinal models; and spatial data analysis. She has received funding from the American National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), and the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study violent victimization in relation to immigration and the making of immigration enforcement policies in different states and local jurisdictions. Her specialties include the analysis of the U.S. National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS).

VICTIMIZATION FOCUS

Domestic and Family Violence, Physical Assault (other than domestic violence or elder abuse), Robbery, Sexual Abuse or Violence (other than campus sexual assault)

SPECIAL POPULATIONS

Immigrants and refugees, Racial/ethnic minorities

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

Descriptive studies, Quantitative studies

VICTIM RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Quantitative studies