Current Research Projects
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Barriers to the Prosecution of Child Sexual Abuse Cases: Perspectives from Law Enforcement, Prosecutors, and Advocacy Professionals
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Status: Institutional Review Board (IRB) approved. Research is currently underway.
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Paper, Barriers to the Prosecution of Child Sexual Abuse Cases: Perspectives from Law Enforcement, has been accepted for presentation at the November 2025 American Society of Criminology annual meeting in Washington D.C. in the "Policing Sexual, Domestic, and Intimate Partner Violence" session.
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Working Title: Social Media as a Proxy Jury Box: An Analysis of Public Commentary in Cases of Known Rape
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This content analysis looks at social media commentary in cases of rape that have been proven through video recordings and confessions of the offenders. Themes looked at are the public's perception of the assumed consent of the victim and the disbelief of the offender's culpability in the rape.
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Status: Fall 2025 submission for peer review
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Spring 2025: Dr. Treglown created and received university approval for the first ever Wrongful Convictions class at the state university where she is a faculty member.
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This class will be available in-person and online in Spring 2026.
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A Look Ahead: Dr. Treglown's Five Year Research Plan
Systemic Disbelief as an act of Violence: Barriers to Justice for Women and Children Across Life and Death
This five-year research plan examines how systemic disbelief in and of itself is a form of violence against women and children. This research traces the continuum of harm—beginning with the dismissal of abuse disclosures in childhood, extending through civil and criminal legal failures, and concluding in postmortem injustices following femicide and filicide.
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Theme 1: Disbelief is an act of violence. When professionals within the criminal legal system disbelieve women and children bringing claims of physical and sexual abuse this is systemic violence.
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Theme 2: Agencies work together in ways that protect abusers and disempower victims. Disbelief of women and children does not occur accidentally. Rather, interagency collusion and investigator apathy work to ensure that the criminal legal system fails women and children.
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Theme 3: Women and children are denied systemic justice through life and death. Whether justice is delayed or denied, systemic justice is rarely delivered for women and children.
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