Joan A. Reid is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She earned her Ph.D. in Criminology from the University of South Florida in 2010. Her research concerns include human trafficking, sexual violence, child maltreatment, victimology, and recovery of crime victims. For ten years, Dr. Reid has counseled individuals recovering from sexual trauma including youth in foster care and detained in juvenile justice facilities. She maintains her license as a mental health counselor as well as national certifications as a clinical mental health and rehabilitation counselor. Dr. Reid’s research on human trafficking, sexual victimization and child maltreatment has appeared in journals such as Violence and Victims, Child Maltreatment, Victims & Offenders, and Criminal Justice and Behavior.
Child Sex Trafficking
A Girl’s Path to Prostitution: Linking Caregiver Adversity to Child Susceptibility (2012)
Although the Trafficking Victims Protection Act defined girls exploited in prostitution as child sex trafficking...
Exploratory Review of Route-Specific, Gendered, and Age-Graded Dynamics of Exploitation: Applying Life Course Theory to Victimization in Sex Trafficking in North America, Aggression and Violent Behavior: A Review Journal (2012)
The status of research on human trafficking has been characterized as methodologically inadequate and lacking...
Rapid Assessment Exploring Impediments to Successful Prosecutions of Sex Traffickers of U.S. Minors, Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology (2012)
Critical psychological, systemic, and legislative barriers to the successful prosecution of child sex traffickers who...
Psychological, Legislative, and Systemic Barriers to Successful Prosecutions of Child Sex Traffickers, International Conference of the American Psychology-Law Society (2011)
A rapid assessment conducted in two judicial circuits of central Florida revealed critical psychological, legislative,...
An Exploratory Model of Girl’s Vulnerability to Commercial Sexual Exploitation in Prostitution, Child Maltreatment (2011)
Due to inaccessibility of child victims of commercial sexual exploitation, the majority of emergent research...
Child Abuse
A pathway to child sex trafficking in prostitution: The impact of strain and risk-inflating responses, Theses and Dissertations (2010)
Victims of child sex trafficking in prostitution in the United States are often overlooked, misidentified,...
Battered-Child Syndrome, Encyclopedia of Victimology and Crime Prevention (2010)
Battered-child syndrome is the initial term used by physicians in the United States to describe...
A Latent Class Typology of Juvenile Victims and Exploration of Risk Factors and Outcomes of Victimization (with Christopher J. Sullivan), Criminal Justice and Behavior (2009)
Although juveniles are known to experience relatively high levels of violence and abuse, study of...
Scarred Sexuality: The Imprint of Child Abuse Experiences on the Sexual Beliefs and Behaviors of Childhood Sexual Abuse Victims, Sexual Abuse Intervention Network Annual National Conference (2007)
Sexual victimization of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) survivors occurs at a disproportionately high rate compared...
Sexual Assault
Exploring Motivations of Serial Sexual Offenders (with Eric Beauregard, Emily Frith, and Karly Fedina), American Society of Criminology (2011)
A featured motivational hypothesis of sexual violence is that sex offenders are primarily driven by...
Model of Vulnerability for Adult Sexual Victimization: The Impact of Attachment, Child Maltreatment, and Scarred Sexuality (with Christopher J. Sullivan), Violence and Victims (2009)
Extending previous research, this study utilized structural equation modeling to examine the effects of poor...
Criminology
Unraveling Victim-Offender Overlap:Exploring Profiles and Constellations of Risk (with Christopher J. Sullivan), Victims & Offenders (2012)
Victim-offenders are generally considered a distinct group with one or more shared characteristics; however, some...
Crime and Personality: Personality Theory and Criminality Examined, Student Pulse Academic Journal (2011)
The search for the criminal personality or super trait has captured both the minds and...
Sex Offenders
Exploring Motivations of Serial Sexual Offenders (with Eric Beauregard, Emily Frith, and Karly Fedina), American Society of Criminology (2011)
A featured motivational hypothesis of sexual violence is that sex offenders are primarily driven by...
Sex Trafficking
Exploratory Review of Route-Specific, Gendered, and Age-Graded Dynamics of Exploitation: Applying Life Course Theory to Victimization in Sex Trafficking in North America, Aggression and Violent Behavior: A Review Journal (2012)
The status of research on human trafficking has been characterized as methodologically inadequate and lacking...
Victims and Offenders
Unraveling Victim-Offender Overlap:Exploring Profiles and Constellations of Risk (with Christopher J. Sullivan), Victims & Offenders (2012)
Victim-offenders are generally considered a distinct group with one or more shared characteristics; however, some...
Trauma Bonding
Trauma Bonding and Interpersonal Violence (with Rachael A. Haskell, Christina Dillahunt-Aspillaga, and Jennifer A. Thor), Psychology of Trauma (2013)
The psychological phenomenon labeled Stockholm syndrome or trauma bonding has been explained as a product...