Coffee Chats with Researchers Coffee Chats with Researchers

Catie interviews Dr. Rebecca Campbell, Professor of Psychology at Michigan State University,
who researches victim disclosure practices and help-seeking experiences. Dr. Campbell speaks
to her experience serving as Presidential Advisor, Relationship Violence & Sexual Misconduct, in
which she assisted Michigan State University administration in improving the process for
survivors on their campus in response to former doctor Larry Nassar’s abuse of patients. Dr.
Campbell and Catie discuss the importance and challenges of the role of “researchers as
activists” while Dr. Campbell shares her dedication to changing systems by impacting policy and
practice and ultimately improving the survivor experience.



Content/Trigger Warning: Please note, content discussed in these conversations are related to
violence, abuse, and victimization. Episodes often contain content that may be alarming to
some listeners.

Catie interviews Dr. April Zeoli, Associate Professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy
in the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan, a firearm violence researcher studying
intimate partner homicide and examining extreme-risk protection order laws and their implementation.
She and Catie discuss the challenges of accessing data and records around gun violence in intimate
partner cases as well as the ways implementation of “red flag laws” can improve to ensure gun
relinquishment occurs. And most importantly, Dr. Zeoli shares that the research indeed suggests “that
we can prevent gun violence and reduce homicide through laws that restrict dangerous people from
having guns”.


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Extreme risk protection orders in response to threats of multiple victim/mass shooting in six U.S.
states: A descriptive study


Content/Trigger Warning: Please note, content discussed in these conversations are related to
violence, abuse, and victimization. Episodes often contain content that may be alarming to
some listeners.

Catie interviews Dr. Chiara Sabina, Associate Professor in the Rutgers University School of Social Work
and Associate Director of the Center for Research on Ending Violence in the Rutgers University School of Social Work. Dr. Sabina, whose work primarily focuses on the Latinx population, shares with Catie her
passion for bringing more diversity into the field of gender-based violence. The two discuss the
importance of prevention and intervention that account for the intersections of identity and reach
populations that have been historically oppressed and underserved. Dr. Sabina also discusses the
potential long-term implications of her current study with local domestic violence survivors in Quito,
Ecuador using integrative community therapy, which she describes as a culturally congruent, non-
hierarchical dialogue circle, group-based approach.

Catie interviews Professor Leigh Goodmark, JD, who serves as the Marjorie Cooke Professor of Law at
the University of Maryland Carey School of Law where she directs the Gender Violence Clinic. Professor
Goodmark represents criminalized survivors of domestic violence and trains students to represent
victims of violence. She and Catie discuss how the criminal and legal system can harm victims and
further the perpetration of violence. Professor Goodmark discusses how her passion to mitigate further
trauma and harm to criminalized survivors led her on a journey to identifying as an abolitionist.


The Gender Policy Report: Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: Economic, Public Health,
and Community Solutions


Content/Trigger Warning: Please note, content discussed in these conversations are related to
violence, abuse, and victimization. Episodes often contain content that may be alarming to
some listeners.

Catie interviews Dr. Kaitlin Boyle, Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal
Justice and the University of South Carolina, who uses social psychology and sociological perspectives to
study how social inequalities and power dynamics shape the socialization processes that enable
environments in which violence occurs. She and Catie discuss her approach to research as looking at
violence as both a reflection of and reinforcer of inequality and its influence on her varied research
interests, including looking at the role gender plays in mass gun violence. And finally, Dr. Boyle shares
more about the process of moving her Violence and (In)justice Lecture Series to a working group,
thereby building professional networks across the many fields addressing interpersonal violence and
encouraging interdisciplinary research collaborations.


Content/Trigger Warning: Please note, content discussed in these conversations are related to
violence, abuse, and victimization. Episodes often contain content that may be alarming to
some listeners.

Catie interviews Dr. Claire M. Renzetti, Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of Kentucky;
the Judy Conway Patton Endowed Chair for Studies on Violence Against Women in the Center for
Research on Violence Against Women; Editor, Violence Against Women: An International,
Interdisciplinary Journal (SAGE); Editor, Gender & Justice Series (University of California Press); Co-
Editor, Interpersonal Violence Series (Oxford University Press); and Editor, Family & Gender-Based
Violence Series (Cognella). Dr. Renzetti starts by sharing her excitement for her research of the OVW
funded evaluation of the therapeutic horticulture program at the Greenhouse 17 shelter and its
implications for improvement in self-esteem and self-efficacy for women participating in therapeutic
horticulture shelter programs. The two discuss the value of funding innovative research in the field of
violence against women and the impacts of what Dr. Renzetti calls “purposive research”, which she
defines as data collection that is making a difference and producing usable knowledge.