Lisa M. Jones is a research associate professor of psychology at the Crimes against Children Research Center (CCRC), University of New Hampshire. Dr. Jones received a Ph.D. in clinical psychology in 1999 from the University of Rhode Island. She has over 20 years’ experience researching child victimization and adversity exposure, with a focus on commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) and youth, sexual abuse, bias and hate crime victimization, and technology-based victimization of children. She is currently serving as PI on a 5-year CDC-funded R01 randomized controlled trial evaluation of youth-focused trafficking prevention education program delivered to at-risk youth in the state of Minnesota. She is also serving as PI of a study funded by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) to conduct a 5-year quasi-experimental evaluation of a specialized intensive services for youth trafficking victims developed by the non-profit Love 146. In other research areas, Dr. Jones is serving as PI on an NIJ-funded study to identify processes for improving national surveillance of child sexual abuse cases in youth serving organizations (YSOs). She is PI on a privately funded randomized controlled trial (RCT) of the Common Sense Education digital citizenship curriculum, after having recently completed an RCT of the Google Be Internet Awesome digital citizenship program. Finally, she recently completed a NIJ-funded national study of hate crime investigations conducted by law enforcement. Dr. Jones has published over 100 papers and chapters on these and other child victimization topics and regularly presents across the country and internationally on these topics.
