Victimology: Theories and Applications

Ann Wolbert Burgess, DNSc, APRN, BC, FAAN-Professor of Psychiatric Nursing, William F. Connell School of Nursing, Boston College

Ann Wolbert Burgess, DNSc, APRN, BC, FAAN, is professor of psychiatric mental health nursing at the Boston College William F. Connell School of Nursing.  Educated at Boston University and the University of Maryland, she and Lynda Lytle Holmstrom cofounded one of the first hospital-based crisis intervention programs for rape victims at Boston City Hospital.  Dr. Burgess has been principal investigator on 15 funded research projects, and has published over 145 articles on crime victims and their offenders.  Dr. Burgess maintains a private clinical practice; she also serves as an expert witness in criminal and civil cases.  She has testified before congressional committees and served on the U.S. Attorney General’s Task Force on Family Violence.  She was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1994 and chaired the 1996 National Research Council’s Task Force on Violence Against Women.

Cheryl Regehr, MSW, PhD-Professor of Social Work and Professor of Law, Vice Provost, Academic Programs, University of Toronto

Cheryl Regehr, MSW, PhD, is a professor in the Faculty of Social Work and the Faculty of Law at University of Toronto. Professor Regehr is presently the Vice-Provost, Academic Programs at the University of Toronto. She was previously the Dean of Social Work. Professor Regehr’s practice background includes 20 years of direct service in forensic social work and emergency mental health and in the administration of mental health programs, specializing in workplace trauma interventions and civil litigation and criminal court assessments of trauma victims and violent offenders.  Her research, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanites Research Council of Canada and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, examines the impact of trauma and victimization. Her publications address both issues of trauma and the interface between the law and mental health.

Albert R. Roberts, PhD, DACFE-(late of) Rutgers University

The late Albert R. Roberts, Ph.D., D.A.C.F.E., was a Professor of Criminal Justice and Social Work, and Director of Faculty and Curriculum Development in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey at Piscataway.