Victimology - International Student Edition: A Comprehensive Approach

About Leah E. DaigleLisa R. Muftic

Leah E. Daigle is professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. She received her PhD in criminal justice from the University of Cincinnati in 2005. Her most recent research is centered on repeat sexual victimization of college women and responses women use during and after being sexually victimized. Her other research interests include the development and continuation of offending and victimization across the life course. She is author of Victimology: A Text/Reader (2nd ed.) Victimology: The Essentials (2nd ed.) coauthor of Criminals in the Making: Criminality Across the Life Course Victimology and Unsafe in the Ivory Tower: The Sexual Victimization of College Women which was awarded the 2011 Outstanding Book Award by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. She has also published numerous peer-reviewed articles that have appeared in outlets such as Justice Quarterly Journal of Quantitative Criminology Journal of Interpersonal Violence and Victims and Offenders. Lisa R. Muftic is professor and chair in the Department of Criminal Justice & Sociology at Western New England University.  She received her PhD in criminal justice from North Dakota State University in 2006.  For the 2012-2013 academic year she was appointed the US Fulbright Scholar to Bosnia and Herzegovina where she was a visiting faculty member with the Faculty of Criminal Justice Sciences Criminology and Security Studies at the University of Sarajevo.  Dr. Muftic has extensive experience in the areas of violence against women human trafficking and international criminal justice issues with special expertise regarding the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.  Her published scholarship has appeared in well-respected refereed journals including Justice Quarterly Crime & Delinquency Journal of Research in Crime & Delinquency Violence Against Women Journal of Interpersonal Violence and Victims and Offenders.