Justice and Gender-Based Violence Research Initiative Videos

• Searching for Truth: Healing from Child Sexual Exploitation
  

  

  October 19, 2022

  A virtual Social Change Dialogue explores one woman’s journey to investigate her history as a child sex trafficking survivor, with the help of a journalist.
• Students Share Insights from 2020-21 Internships
  

  

  May 20, 2021

  Students in the 2020-21 Class of 1967 Internship Program at WCW discuss what they learned during their internships.
• Prosecution of Sexual Assault: How Far Have We Come in 40 Years?
  

  

  April 19, 2018

  In this April 2018 lunchtime seminar, members of WCW's Justice and Gender-Based Violence Research team presented new findings of a recent study of sexual assault case attrition, which discovered that that most cases of rape reported to the police do not result in prosecution -- in fact one in three cases with probable cause did not result in arrest.
• Memory Loss and Trauma
  

  

  January 8, 2018

  Linda M. Williams, Ph.D., discusses how one of her major findings changed how we understand memory loss and childhood trauma.
• International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women 2017
  

  

  November 24, 2017

  Linda M. Williams, Ph.D., research scientist and co-founder of the Justice and Gender-Based Violence Research Initiative at the Wellelsey Centers for Women offers a brief message on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
• Justice and Gender-Based Violence - Why the Research is Needed
  

  

  October 23, 2015

  April Pattavina, Ph.D. and Linda Williams, Ph.D. work with police, prosecutors, victim advocates, agencies, and victims themselves to research sexual assault case processing. In this video, they explain why their collaborative research style is needed to understand the complexities of justice systems and gender based violence.