Dana DeHart is Principle Investigator (PI) for development of Elder Mistreatment Prevention Training sponsored by SC's Department of Health and Human Services, and Development of a Victim Service Coordinating Council funded by the SC State office of Victim Assistance. She was Project Director for the National Institute of Justice's (NIJ) study Victimization Experiences of Incarcerated Women, and she extends that work in her current NIJ study, Poly-Victimization of Girls Referred to the Justice System. She was Project Director for the Office for Victims of Crime’s (OVC) National Victim Assistance Standards Consortium, as well as related projects including an Ethics in Victim Services curriculum developed in conjunction with the Victim Assistance Legal Organization. Other recent projects of Dr. DeHart's include Collaborative Response to Crime Victims in Urban Areas, an effort to link faith-based and secular services in five U.S. cities, as well as OVC’s video production Sexual Victimization of Persons with Developmental Disabilities. Her specialization is victimology, particularly domestic abuse, trauma responses, and under-served populations. She has conducted research on battered women’s recovery, batterer treatment, psychological abuse, intimate homicide, hate crimes, and service use among ethnic and sexual minorities. Dr. DeHart serves as a reviewer for leading psychological journals and publishers, has co-authored several book chapters, and publishes research in journals including Violence & Victims, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Journal of Family Violence, Journal of Death & Dying, and Journal of Sex Research

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