Researcher
RAND Corporation
Santa Monica, California, United States
Jill Portnoy Donaghy, Ph.D., is a policy researcher at RAND. She is a criminologist whose research focuses on biological, psychological, social, and health-related risk factors for crime, aggression, and other harmful behaviors in children, adolescents, and adults. Her multidisciplinary work identifies causes and consequences of harmful behavior that can be used to inform prevention. Her past and current work includes a review and evaluability assessment of law enforcement wellness programs, evaluation of a juvenile holistic public defense program, an examination of online-facilitated identity theft, development of a juvenile justice prevention toolkit, evaluations of nutrition-based strategies for the prevention of childhood mental health problems, research into predictors of engagement with online extremist materials, and a project aimed at implementing Women, Peace and Security (WPS) to reduce military sexual violence. She was awarded the Early Career Award from the American Society of Criminology's (ASC) Division of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology and serves as the Vice Chair of the ASC Division of Biopsychosocial Criminology.
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