Victim Researcher Profile

BIO

Rebecca Headley Konkel is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her research focuses on spatial and neighborhood contextual effects on offending/victimization, parolee outcomes, and a array of social phenomena. Additionally, she conducts research at the neighborhood-level on neighborhood institutions that are theoretically relevant to offending, victimization, and deviance.

VICTIMIZATION FOCUS

Domestic and Family Violence, Drug-Related Victimization, Sexual Abuse or Violence (other than campus sexual assault), Vicarious Trauma

SPECIAL POPULATIONS

Rural victims, Urban high crime neighborhood victims

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

Data collection, Descriptive studies, Ethnography, Qualitative studies, Quantitative studies, Randomized controlled trial

VICTIM RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Descriptive studies, Quantitative studies