Lisa M. Jones, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor
Lisa M. Jones is a research assistant professor of psychology at the Crimes against Children Research Center (CCRC) at the University of New Hampshire. Her research focuses on child abuse and neglect and understanding and improving the community response to victims. She is currently involved in several projects including a Multi-Site Evaluation of Children Advocacy Centers (CACs); research on child maltreatment trends during the 1990s; and a population-based study of predictors of interest in foster parenting. She is also initiating projects studying the community response to statutory rape victims and the impact of media publicity for child victims of abuse and crime. In 1996, she was awarded a University-Based Doctoral Student and Faculty Fellowship in Child Abuse and Neglect by the National Center for Child Abuse and Neglect (NCCAN) for dissertation research on the process of change for maltreating caregivers. After receiving a Ph.D. in clinical psychology in 1999 from the University of Rhode Island, she completed a 2-year NIMH post-doctoral research fellowship at the CCRC.
