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Ann Wolbert Burgess

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Ann Wolbert Burgess, D.N.Sc., APRN, FAAN, is an internationally recognized pioneer in the assessment and treatment of victims of trauma and abuse, and author of A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind. She has received numerous honors including the Sigma Theta Tau International Audrey Hepburn Award, the American Nurses鈥 Association Hildegard Peplau Award, and the Sigma Theta Tau International Episteme Laureate Award. Her courtroom testimony has been described as 鈥済roundbreaking,鈥 and she has been called a 鈥渘ursing pathfinder.鈥

Her research with victims began when she co-founded, with 艾可直播 College sociologist Lynda Lytle Holmstrom, one of the first hospital-based crisis counseling programs at 艾可直播 City Hospital. She then worked with FBI Academy special agents to study serial offenders, and the links between child abuse, juvenile delinquency, and subsequent perpetration. Her work with 艾可直播 College nursing colleague Carol Hartman led to the study of very young victims and the impact of trauma on their growth and development, their families and communities. Her work continues in the study of elder abuse in nursing homes, cyberstalking, and Internet sex crimes. She teaches courses in Victimology, Forensic Science, Forensic Mental Health, Case Studies in Forensics and Forensic Science Lab.

SHAPING A NEW GENERATION

Selected Appointments and awards

  • 2016: Living Legend, American Academy of Nursing
  • 2014: Distinguished Professor, Uniform Services University Health Sciences
  • 2013: Inaugural Living Legend Award from the New England Chapter of the American Psychiatric Nursing Association
  • 2010: Sigma Theta Tau Hall of Fame, Sigma Theta Tau International
  • 2010: Inductee, Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame
  • 2009: Inaugural Ann Burgess Forensic Nursing Award,聽International Association of Forensic Nurses
  • 2008: Interim Editor, Victims & Offenders
  • 2007: University Distinguished Teaching Award, 艾可直播 College
  • 2002鈥2003: Cardinal's Commission on Protection of Children, 艾可直播 Archdiocese
  • 2001: Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University of San Diego

Selected Publications

  • Burgess, A. W., Petreca, V., Brucato, G., Hoblock, C., Mars, M., Lamade, R. V., & Dowdell, E. B. (2024). Murdered Elder Indigenous Women and Legal Outcomes. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. Advance online publication.
  • Capotosto, M. P., Soria-Contreras, D. C., Burgess, A. W., Rifas-Shiman, S. L., Fitz, V. W., Shifren, J., Chavarro, J. E., & Oken, E. (2024). Associations of History of Infertility with Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression among Parous Women during Midlife in Project Viva. Women鈥檚 Health Reports, 5(1), 936鈥944.
  • Petreca, V. G., Dowdell, E., Harding, S., Mars, M., Pudvah, E., Jeune, J., & Burgess, A. W. (2024). Murdered Indigenous Women: A Comparison Study of Victim and Perpetrator Patterns and Characteristics. Journal of Forensic Nursing, 20(3), 174鈥184.
  • Petreca, V. G., Burgess, A. A., Barros, J. T., Wise, J., & Burgess, A. W. (2024). Analyzing Violent Attacker Texts: Examining Ideologies through Machine Learning-Assisted Topic Modeling. Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, 1鈥18.
  • Petreca, V. G., & Burgess, A. W. (2024). Long-Term Psychological and Physiological Effects of Male Sexual Trauma. The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 52(1), 23鈥32.
  • Welner, M., Burgess, A., & O鈥橫alley, K. Y. (2024). Fetal Abduction by Maternal Evisceration (FAMAE). In K. A. Burgason & M. DeLisi (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Homicide Studies (pp. 296鈥320). Routledge.
  • Petreca, V. G., Flanagan, J. M., Lyons, K. S., & Burgess, A. W. (2024). The Reintegration of Men into Society after a Sexual Offense: An Hermeneutic Phenomenology Study. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 45(5), 453鈥467.
  • Petreca, V. G., Burgess, A. A., Wise, J., & Burgess, A. W. (2024). Using Machine Learning and Topic Modeling to Examine Manifestos of Violent Attackers. The Journal of Threat Assessment and Management. Advance online publication.
  • Petreca, V. G., Burgess, A. W., & Jarvis, K. (2023). Manual and Instrument Asphyxiation/Strangulation: Examining Perpetrator and Victim Characteristics. Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 98, 102575.
  • Petreca, V. G., Barros, J., Hoblock, C., & Burgess, A. W. (2024). The Nurse-Police Assistance Crisis Team (N-PACT): A New Role for Nursing. Journal of Advanced Nursing. Advance online publication.
  • Petreca, V. G., & Burgess, A. W. (2024). Long-Term Psychological and Physiological Effects of Male Sexual Trauma. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 52(1), 1鈥10.
  • Phillips, K. L., Dzurec, L., Burgess, A. W., Beauvais, A., & McNutt-Clarke, B. (2022). Ramifications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Nursing Students鈥 Transition to Practice. Journal for Nurses in Professional Development, 10, 1097. DOI: 10.1097/NND.0000000000000904
  • Petreca, V. G., Brucato, G., Burgess, A. W., Flores, J., & Leary, T. (2022). Female Murderers Who Mutilate or Dismember Their Victims: An Exploration of Patterns and Sex Differences. Journal of Forensic Sciences.
  • Burgess, A. W., & Constantine, S. M. (2021).聽.听贬补肠丑别迟迟别听叠辞辞办蝉
  • Welner, M., Burgess, A. W., & O鈥橫alley, K. Y. Psychiatric and Legal Considerations in Cases of Fetal Abduction by Maternal Evisceration. Journal of Forensic Science, 66(5), 1805鈥1817. DOI: 10.1111/1556-4029.14788
  • Moylan, G., Burgess, A. W., 聽Berstein, M. & Figley, C. (in press). Motivating game-based learning efforts in higher education. International Journal of Distance Education Technologies.
  • Carretta, C., Burgess, A. W., & DeMarco, R. (2016). To tell or not to tell. Violence Against Women, 22(13), 1499-1518. DOI: 10.1177/1077801215627507