~ RGVRC Affiliate Scholar ~

Sarah Goodrum, Ph.D., is a research professor in the Prevention Science Program and director of the Violence Prevention Project at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on violence prevention, threat assessment, and homicide victimization, and her work has informed violence prevention strategies in K-12 schools, universities, and communities across the US. Dr. Goodrum participated in the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s effort to synthesize research on threat assessment. She recently partnered with law enforcement officers and mental health clinicians to develop the Targeted Violence Lethality Assessment Protocol (TV-LAP), an innovative tool for assessing a person’s risk for targeted violence. Dr. Goodrum is the principal investigator (PI) or co-PI on projects funded by the Department of Homeland Security, the National Institute of Justice, the Bureau of Justice Assistance, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Formerly, she served as the A. M. and Jo Winchester Distinguished professor and department chair in criminology and criminal justice at the University of Northern, and associate professor and department chair in anthropology and sociology at Centre College. Her publications have appeared in the Sociology of Education, Journal of Threat Assessment and Management, Behavioral Sciences & the Law, and other journals. Her co-authored Report on the Arapahoe High School Shooting examined lessons learned on threat assessment. Her book After Homicide: Victims’ Families in the Criminal Justice System chronicles the experiences of families of murder victims. She obtained her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin and her bachelor’s from Texas A&M University.