Dana DeHart, a Research Associate Professor at The Center for Child & Family Studies, has been Principal Investigator on over $3.5 million in grants and contracts. Her specialty area is violence and victimization, particularly women’s crime, domestic abuse, and service responses. She has conducted research on incarcerated women and girls, battered women’s recovery, batterer treatment, psychological abuse, intimate homicide, and service use among ethnic and sexual minorities. Dr. DeHart has expertise in needs assessment, program evaluation, scale design, and ethical research design. She is experienced in a range of qualitative and quantitative community-engaged research and enjoys exploring innovative methodologies. She serves on state and national workgroups, is a peer reviewer for leading psychological journals, has authored book chapters, and has published in Violence Against Women, Violence & Victims, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Journal of Family Violence, Women & Health, Journal of Correctional Health Care, Child & Youth Social Work Journal, Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect, Journal of Death & Dying, and Journal of Sex Research, among others.

Links to representative projects and reports follow:

• Elder Mistreatment Prevention Training
• Development of a Victim Service Coordinating Council
• Victimization Experiences of Incarcerated Women
• Poly-Victimization of Girls Referred to the Justice System
• National Victim Assistance Standards Consortium
• Ethics in Victim Services
• Collaborative Response to Crime Victims in Urban Areas
• Sexual Victimization of Persons with Developmental Disabilities
• SC Professional Developmental Consortium

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