~ RGVRC Affiliate Scholar ~

Jillian Turanovic is an associate professor and director of the Crime Victim Research and Policy Institute in the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University. Her research focuses on violent victimization, youth development, school violence, and mass shootings. She is the author of Thinking About Victimization: Context and Consequences (Routledge, 2019) and Confronting School Violence: A Synthesis of Six Decades of Research (Cambridge University Press, 2022). The Office for Victims of Crime, the National Institute of Justice, the National Science Foundation, and Arnold Ventures have supported her work. Turanovic’s research appears in journals such as Criminology, Justice Quarterly, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Journal of Adolescent Health, and the Journal of Pediatrics. In 2015, she received her PhD in criminology and criminal justice from Arizona State University.