Harassment & Abuse

Adult Memories and Consequences and Recovery from Child Sexual Abuse
Remembering Childhood Sexual Abuse

This research looked at longitudinal data about adult memories of abuse-related traumas from childhood. Findings from this project can be used to design interventions for and promote the health and well-being of victims of childhood sexual abuse and violence.


Decriminalizing Consensual Teen Sex
Law and Consensual Teen Sex

This project explores the ways in which states attempt to regulate consensual adolescent sexual behavior through criminal law. In the end, the researchers hope to encourage a close-in-age exemption for Massachusetts, which currently is one of a small number of states that do not have any such exemption.


Developing Direct Connections on Bullying and Harassment to Curriculum Frameworks and Performance ..
Linking Bullyproof to Curriculum Frameworks and Performance Standards: Nationwide

This project led to the development a teacher's manual that links curriculum on bullying and harassment directly to national education standards, based on Bullyproof curriculum.


Development and Evaluation of Sexual Violence/Harassment Prevention Programs
Sexual Violence/Harassment Prevention Programs in Middle Schools

This study is designed to help increase the capacity of programs to prevent sexual violence and harassment. The long-term goal/objective of this study is to help prevent intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and sexual harassment by employing the most rigorous methods to evaluate strategies for altering the violence-supportive attitudes and norms of youth.


Longitudinal Research on Partner Violence, Child Physical Abuse, and Child Sexual Abuse
Partner Violence, Child Physical Abuse, and Child Sexual Abuse

This study examined the ways in which physical and/or sexual violence within a family affects the individual, the family unit, and the community. The project focused on prevention programs and policies in order to better understand the varied outcomes of family violence.


Middle School Bullying & Sexual Violence: Measurement Issues & Etiological Models

This research project addresses a critical issue by examining the overlap of bullying perpetration/victimization and sexual violence in order to inform sexual violence prevention in US schools.


Navy Family Study
Violence in Navy Families

This longitudinal study examined family violence within the Navy and was designed to help Navy leaders develop their family advocacy program.


Sexual Harassment and Gender Violence in Schools: A Research and Development Project Linking Schools
Title IX, Sexual Harassment and Gender Violence in Schools

This project created a collaborative intervention model and curriculum for schools and community-based organizations in order to understand and counter rising rates of rape, sexual harassment, and gender discrimination in school environments.


Women in Development IQC: Gender Matters
School-related Gender Violence in Developing Countries
international work

  Through this project, a review was developed to identify, annotate, and synthesize research studies and projects/interventions addressing primary and secondary school-related gender-based violence in developing countries. The review was conducted in 2003 and again in 2005/2006.


Zero Tolerance
Sexual Harassment Policies: Zero Tolerance

Through this project, researchers examined experiences of sexual harassment in schools even when zero-tolerance policies may exist.