Victim Researcher Profile

BIO

Kristy Holtfreter is a Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University, where she also serves as an affliliated faculty member in the Women and Gender Studies program. Professor Holtfreter earned a doctorate from Michigan State University in 2004. She is the author of more than 50 refereed articles and numerous reports to agencies of government. Her articles have appeared in journals such as Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Aging and Mental Health, Journal of Adult Development, Criminal Justice and Behavior, and the Journal of Financial Crime. Dr. Holtfreter is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of female offending and victimization, white-collar crime and criminological theory. She has received more than $1.3 million in research funding as Principal Investigator on federal and state grants. From 2010 to 2018, she served the school's graduate program in several adminstrative positions, including as director of the on-campus MSCCJ and doctoral degrees and the online MACJ degree. Other recent professional appointments include technical review panelist for the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) redesign, member of the Stanford University Financial Fraud Research Center's Fraud Taxonomy Work Group, and member of a National Academy of Sciences Panel on Corporate Criminal Justice. She was the first Chair (2017-2019) of the American Society of Criminology's Division of White-Collar and Corporate Crime and is the Editor-in-Chief of Feminist Criminology, the official journal of the American Society of Criminology's Division on Women and Crime. Professor Holtfreter is the recipient of the 2019 ASU Faculty Women's Association Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, the 2018 Watts College of Public Service Educator Award, and the 2018 American Society of Criminology's Division on Women and Crime Distinguished Scholar Award.

VICTIMIZATION FOCUS

Campus Sexual Assault, Computer/Internet Crimes, Domestic and Family Violence, Elder Abuse/Mistreatment, Fraud and Identity Theft

SPECIAL POPULATIONS

Older victims

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

Descriptive studies, Program evaluation, Qualitative studies, Quantitative studies

VICTIM RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

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