Janine Zweig

Dr. Zweig's work addresses issues related to violent victimization (specifically, intimate partner and sexual violence), substance use, offender populations, and adolescent and young adult development; and includes quantitative and qualitative methodologies, longitudinal studies, and multi-site evaluations.

She is currently a Principal Investigator for two National Institute of Justice-funded projects. The first examines payment mechanisms for sexual assault forensic exams with a particular focus on whether such exams are provided to victims free-of-charge and without requiring them to report the assault to law enforcement, as per federal law. The second study is a survey of middle and high school youth to examine teen dating violence with specific attention on how youth use technology (e.g., social networking sites, cellphones/texting, etc.) to perpetrate psychologically abusive behaviors, stalking, and sexual harassment.

Dr. Zweig was PI of an NIJ-funded project focused on examining corrections’ response to sexual violence in state prisons, has examined the risk factors for and consequences of sexual victimization during adolescence and young adulthood (for which she received the Hugo G. Beigel award for outstanding research reports), and studied the effectiveness of victim service, criminal justice, and social service responses to sexual assault and domestic violence.

Dr. Zweig was part of a team of researchers that conducted the NIJ-funded Multi-site Adult Drug Court Evaluation and has used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to examine the co-occurrence of health risk behaviors during adolescence to identify patterns of risky behaviors, and then the risk and protective factors related to these patterns of co-occurring health risks.