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Vital City | Causal Research: More, Not Less

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After completing my undergraduate degree at Vanderbilt, I was hired as a victim-witness coordinator in the district attorney’s office in Nashville. I worked with domestic violence victims whose cases were advancing through the courts, and I believed our work made victims safer by holding abusers accountable and by providing services to victims, abusers and families. I was honored and highly motivated to do this work. However, not all victims were so sure the court’s interventions would make them safer: Some felt more protected, but others would say, “It doesn’t matter what you do, if he wants to kill me, he will.” (About 80% of my clients were women.) I was at a professional crossroads: I could either keep working in the system and hoping my efforts were effective, or I could train to be a social scientist and build a research portfolio dedicated to exploring how policy and practice could reduce domestic violence victims’ risk of harm. I chose the latter path. Drawing on her recent art

We can’t shrink from our duty to understand the effects of policy on people’s lives. After completing my undergraduate degree at Vanderbilt, I was hired as a victim-witness coordinator in the district attorney's office in Nashville. I worked with domestic violence victims whose cases were advancing through the courts, and I believed our work made victims safer by holding abusers accountable and by providing services to victims, abusers and families. I was honored and highly motivated to do this work. However, not all victims were so sure the court's interventions would make them safer: Some fe

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