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2017
W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Engagement Scholarship Award, Exemplary Project for The Detroit Sexual Assault Kit (SAK) Action Research Project, Association of Public & Land Grant Universities (APLU).

W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Engagement Scholarship Award, Exemplary Project

2015
The Society for Community Research and Action

Special Contributions to Public Policy Award

2015
Vision 21 Crime Victims Research Award, Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice.

Crime Victims Research Award

Why police “couldn’t or wouldn’t” submit sexual assault kits (SAKs) for forensic DNA testing: A focal concerns theory analysis of untested rape kits.

Tested at last: How DNA evidence in untested rape kits can identify offenders and serial sexual assaults

The national problem of untested sexual assault kits (SAKs): Scope, causes, and future directions for research, policy, and practice

Tackling difficult issues, Emotionally Involved gives a vivid picture the challenges researchers who studey traumatic events face. It is essential reading for researchers, therapists, fieldworkers, for those on the frontlines of rape crisis and domestic violence work, and for anyone concerned with the role of emotions in social science.

Emotionally Involved: The Impact of Researching Rape

For the past 25 years, Rebecca Campbell has been conducting community-based research on violence against women and children, with an emphasis on sexual assault. Campbell’s research examines how contact with the legal and medical systems affects adult, adolescent, and pediatric victims’ psychological and physical health. Most recently, she was the lead researcher for the National Institute of Justice-funded Detroit Sexual Assault Kit Action Research Project, which was a four-year multidisciplinary study of Detroit’s untested rape kits. Campbell also conducts training for law enforcement and multidisciplinary practitioners in civilian, military, and campus community settings on the neurobiology of trauma. In 2015, Campbell received the Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime, Vision 21 Crime Victims Research Award.

Trauma and Violence

Violence Against Women

Sexual Abuse Survivors

Sexual Assault and Sexual Violence

Violence against Children

Research Consortium on Gender Based Violence

Why Women Can Take Years to Come Forward With Sexual Assault Allegations

MSU Expands Sexual Misconduct Workgroup

State Grant Funding Helps Expand Resources in Sexual Assault Program

MSU work group will address response to sexual assault, relationship violence on campus

Professor of Psycology

In December 2012, Dr. Rebecca Campbell, Michigan State University, gave a seminar in NIJ's Research for the Real World series that brought together research on the neurobiology of trauma and the criminal justice response to sexual assault. Before the seminar, we sat down with Dr. Campbell for a three-part interview. In this segment, she covers:
- Trauma versus lying: How can law enforcement tell the difference?
- How did you become interested in this type of work?
 - What is the impact of this training on law enforcement?

(Opinions or points of view expressed represent the speaker and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice. Any product or manufacturer discussed is presented for informational purposes only and do not constitute product approval or enforcement by the U.S. Department of Justice.)

Interview with Dr. Rebecca Campbell on the Neurobiology of Sexual Assault (1 of 3)

This short training film provides an overview of how trauma impacts victims and how law enforcement or other first responders can implement a trauma informed response and approach to sexual assault survivors. 

The training film features Dr. Rebecca Campbell and Chief Tom Tremblay (Ret.) and law enforcement professionals from across Michigan. The video was developed by the Michigan Domestic and Sexual Violence Prevention and Treatment Board in partnership with the Violence Against Women Project of the Prosecuting Attorney’s Association of Michigan. 

The film has two parts that allow it to be viewed in its’ entirety at an in-service training (22 minutes) or in separate roll call trainings (13 minutes and 9 minutes).
 
A short facilitator’s guide is available to help you use the training film as part of training at your agency http://www.michiganprosecutor.org/content/Facilitator's%20Guide-A%20Trauma%20Informed%20Response%20to%20Sexual%20Assault.pdf.

For more information e-mail MDSVPTB@michigan.gov.  

This project was supported by Grant No. 2011-WE-AX-0035 and Grant No. 2012-WF-AX-0040 awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice.  The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this film are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.

Sexual Assault: A Trauma Informed Approach to Law Enforcement First Response

Michigan State University is taking its search for answers about sexual misconduct directly to the student body (April 6, 2015)

MSU launches survey on sexual assaults

Dr. Rebecca Campbell discussing how trauma affects our ability to store and retrieve memories.
From presentation - The Neurobiology of Sexual Assault

Post It Notes Analogy for Effects Of Trauma On Memory

Interview with Dr. Rebecca Campbell, Ph.D., Michigan State University
Dr. Campbell, lead researcher on the Detroit Sexual Assault Kit Action Research Project, explains how testing sexual assault kits in cases where a suspect is known (non-stranger) compares to testing kits in cases where a suspect is unknown (stranger). 

(Opinions or points of view expressed represent the speaker and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice. Any product or manufacturer discussed is presented for informational purposes only and do not constitute product approval or enforcement by the U.S. Department of Justice.)

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