Victim Researcher Profile

BIO

Dr. Kathryn Maguire-Jack is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan School of Social Work. Her research focuses on child abuse and neglect prevention, with an emphasis on communities and geographic disparities. Her work is funded by the United States Department of Health and Human Services Administration on Children, Youth, and Families, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, and the Ohio Children’s Trust Fund. She has expertise in advanced statistical methods and program evaluation. She has a BA in Social Welfare and Political Science (’05), MPA (’06), MSW (’09), and PhD (’13) from the University of Wisconsin—Madison.

VICTIMIZATION FOCUS

Child Abuse and Sexual Abuse

SPECIAL POPULATIONS

Child victims, Rural victims, Urban high crime neighborhood victims

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

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

VICTIM RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

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