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Tara Warner, Ph.D.
Department of Criminal Justice
Areas of expertise:
- Victimization
- Sexual risk-taking
- Neighborhoods
- Substance use
- Gun ownership
Warner is a sociological criminologist studying the processes, situations, and environments in which violent victimization and health-compromising deviant risk behaviors are embedded and unfold during adolescence and young adulthood.
She focuses especially on characteristics of youths’ interpersonal/intimate relationships and their neighborhood environments. In other research, she is examining the links between fear and protective gun ownership, gun use behaviors, and attitudes toward gun policy.