Victim Researcher Profile

BIO

Lisa M. Jones is a research associate professor of psychology at the Crimes against Children Research Center (CCRC) at the University of New Hampshire. Dr. Jones received a Ph.D. in clinical psychology in 1999 from the University of Rhode Island. She has 20 years of experience conducting research on child victimization and evaluating national, state, and community-level prevention and intervention responses to youth victims. Recent research focuses on youth and child experiences with hate and bias crime victimization, firearm violence exposure, sexual abuse and sex trafficking victimization, and online victimization. Dr. Jones recently completed a study testing a newly developed Youth Bias Victimization Questionnaire (YBVQ). She is PI on a study funded by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) to learn more about hate crimes that are investigated by law enforcement. Dr. Jones has published several papers from research on bullying and technology-based harassment victimization and is currently leading a cluster randomized control trial evaluation of an internet safety education program. In past work, Dr. Jones helped to direct the Multi-Site Evaluation of Child Advocacy Centers (CACs) and has conducted research examining national declines in child sexual and physical abuse. Dr. Jones has published over 75 papers on child victimization and regularly presents across the country and internationally on these topics.

VICTIMIZATION FOCUS

Bullying, Child Abuse and Sexual Abuse, Child Trafficking and Exploitation, Gun Violence, Hate and Bias Crimes

SPECIAL POPULATIONS

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

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

VICTIM RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

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