Dr Ioana Crivatu is a an ESRC-funded Research Fellow in Psychology at the University of Birmingham’s Centre for National Training and Research Excellence in Understanding Behaviour (Centre-UB). She is a researcher of sexual violence and violence against women and girls (VAWG), with a focus on perpetrator behaviours and criminal justice responses to rape and serious sexual violence victimisation. Her current research is on predatory behaviours and street sexual harassment offending.
Mental health service users face higher sexual victimisation rates than the general population: 13% in the past year for women, 3% for men, across all service settings.
Ioana Crivatu explores a meta-analysis which finds that females exposed to adverse events in childhood may be more likely to enter a cycle of violence in adulthood
Dafni Katsampa and Ioana Crivatu explore a qualitative paper. which gives accounts from both survivors and interveners of a suicide attempt in a public place.
