Dr Stephanie Fohring

Assistant Professor

Department: Social Sciences

Stephanie joined Northumbria as a Senior Lecturer in Criminology in July 2020. Prior to this she worked as a criminology lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University and completed both her PhD and a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh. Stephanie's research is victim focused with particular interest in psychological aspects of victimisation, victimisation surveys, victim labelling, victim experiences of reporting crime and the criminal justice system, violence against women including digitalised/image based violence, vicarious trauma and post-traumatic growth. Her research has been funded by Scottish Government, the British Academy, the ESRC and CHANSE/NORFACE. She is a member of a number of working groups focusing on victimisation, including the European Society of Criminology working group on Victimology, the British Society of Criminology Victim's network and Women, Crime and Criminal Justice Network, and is a member of the EU Cost-Action Cultures of Victimology. Stephanie is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce. She is currently ESRC PI and overall Project Lead for the CHANSE/NORFACE funded project Women's Online Wellbeing (WOW): a Eurpean Examination of Digitalised Violence Aganst Women, in collaboration with colleaugues from Orebro University, Southern Technological University, Lleida University and the Polish Academy of Sciences. More info: https://chanse.org/wow/

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Key Publications

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#WhyIDidntReport: Exploring Victim accounts of non-reporting, Fohring, S. 6 Oct 2024, In: Criminology and Criminal Justice
Survivors speak out: The successes and failures of hashtag activism, Fohring, S., Horsfield, L. 9 Aug 2023, The Emerald International Handbook of Activist Criminology, Bingley, UK, Emerald
Patterns of Victimization and Gender: Linking Emotion, Coping, Reporting and Help-seeking, Fohring, S. 2022, In: Journal of Victimology and Victim Justice
Reporting as Risk: the dangers of criminal justice for survivors of sexual violence, Fohring, S. 22 Jul 2020, Preventing sexual violence, Bristol, Policy Press
The Risks and Rewards of Researching Victims of Crime, Fohring, S. 1 May 2020, In: Methodological Innovations
Introduction to the special issue: Victim identities and hierarchies, Fohring, S. 1 May 2018, In: International Review of Victimology
Revisiting the Non-ideal Victim, Fohring, S. 2018, Values in Victimology: Revisiting the ‘Ideal Victim’ Thesis, Bristol, Policy Press
What’s in a word? Victims on ‘victim’, Fohring, S. 1 May 2018, In: International Review of Victimology
An integrated model of victimization as an explanation of non-involvement with the criminal justice system, Fohring, S. 1 Jan 2015, In: International Review of Victimology
Putting a Face on the Dark Figure: Describing Victims Who Don’t Report Crime, Fohring, S. Dec 2014, In: Temida