Victim Researcher Profile

BIO

Dr. Voith, an Assistant Professor, has worked over the last decade to address violence against girls and women through counseling, agency- and community-based coordination efforts, and research. Her research focuses on the prevention and intervention of violence against girls and women by working with boys and men to uncover the etiology of violence using trauma-focused and health disparities lenses. Her research shows that exposure to adversity and violence in family- and community-settings in childhood and adolescence are significant factors that, if gone unaddressed, can lead men to perpetrate violence in adulthood. Dr. Voith’s research aims to inform the development and evaluation of violence prevention programs with at-risk youth, and improve batterer intervention programming with men.

VICTIMIZATION FOCUS

Child Abuse and Sexual Abuse, Dating Violence (Teen), Domestic and Family Violence

SPECIAL POPULATIONS

Men and boys of color, Urban high crime neighborhood victims

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

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

VICTIM RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Data collection, Descriptive studies, Program evaluation, Qualitative studies, Quantitative studies, Quasi-experimental studies