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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 several books, including听Expert Witness: The Weight of Our Testimony When Justice Hangs in the Balance听and听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 Boston College sociologist Lynda Lytle Holmstrom, one of the first hospital-based crisis counseling programs at Boston 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 Boston 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.

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.听Journal of Interpersonal Violence.听Advance online publication.听DOI: 10.1177/08862605241280084

Capotosto, M. P., Soria-Contreras, D. C.,听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.听Women鈥檚 Health Reports, 5(1), 936鈥�944.听DOI: 10.1089/whr.2024.0034

Petreca, V. G., Dowdell, E., Harding, S., Mars, M., Pudvah, E., Jeune, J., &听Burgess, A. W.听(2024). Murdered Indigenous Women: A Comparison Study of Victim and Perpetrator Patterns and Characteristics.听Journal of Forensic Nursing, 20(3), 174鈥�184.听DOI: 10.1097/JFN.0000000000000481

Petreca, V. G., Burgess, A. A., Barros, J. T., Wise, J., &听Burgess, A. W.听(2024). Analyzing Violent Attacker Texts: Examining Ideologies through Machine Learning-Assisted Topic Modeling.听Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, 1鈥�18.听DOI: 10.1080/19434472.2024.2415359

Petreca, V. G., &听Burgess, A. W.听(2024). Long-Term Psychological and Physiological Effects of Male Sexual Trauma.听The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 52(1), 23鈥�32.听DOI: 10.29158/jaapl.230076-23

Welner, M.,听Burgess, A., & O鈥橫alley, K. Y. (2024). Fetal Abduction by Maternal Evisceration (FAMAE). In K. A. Burgason & M. DeLisi (Eds.),听Routledge Handbook of Homicide Studies听(pp. 296鈥�320). Routledge.听DOI: 0.4324/9781003399476-16听

Petreca, V. G., Flanagan, J. M., Lyons, K. S., &听Burgess, A. W.听(2024). The Reintegration of Men into Society after a Sexual Offense: An Hermeneutic Phenomenology Study.听Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 45(5), 453 467.听DOI: 10.1080/01612840.2024.2322008

Petreca, V. G., Burgess, A. A., Wise, J., &听Burgess, A. W.听(2024). Using Machine Learning and Topic Modeling to Examine Manifestos of Violent Attackers.听The Journal of Threat Assessment and Management.听Advance online publication.听DOI: 10.1037/tam0000232

Petreca, V. G.,听Burgess, A. W., & Jarvis, K. (2023). Manual and Instrument Asphyxiation/Strangulation: Examining Perpetrator and Victim Characteristics.听Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 98, 102575.听DOI: 10.1016/j.jflm.2023.102575

Petreca, V. G., Barros, J., Hoblock, C., &听Burgess, A. W.听(2024). The Nurse Police Assistance Crisis Team (N-PACT): A New Role for Nursing.听Journal of Advanced Nursing.听Advance online publication.听DOI: 10.1111/jan.16056

Petreca, V. G., &听Burgess, A. W.听(2024). Long-Term Psychological and Physiological Effects of Male Sexual Trauma.听Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 52(1), 1鈥�10.听DOI: 10.29158/JAAPL.230076-23

Phillips, K. L., Dzurec, L.,听Burgess, A. W., Beauvais, A., & McNutt-Clarke, B. (2022). Ramifications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Nursing Students鈥� Transition to Practice.听Journal for Nurses in Professional Development, 10, 1097. DOI: 10.1097/NND.0000000000000904

Petreca, V. G., Brucato, G.,听Burgess, A. W., Flores, J., & Leary, T. (2022). Female Murderers Who Mutilate or Dismember Their Victims: An Exploration of Patterns and Sex Differences.听Journal of Forensic Sciences.听https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.15136

Burgess, A. W., & Constantine, S. M. (2021).听A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind.听Hachette听Books

Welner, M.,听Burgess, A. W., & O鈥橫alley, K. Y. Psychiatric and Legal Considerations in Cases of Fetal Abduction by Maternal Evisceration.听Journal of Forensic Science,听66(5), 1805鈥�1817. DOI: 10.1111/1556-4029.14788

Moylan, G.,听Burgess, A. W., 听Berstein, M. & Figley, C. (in press). Motivating game-based learning efforts in higher education.听International Journal of Distance Education Technologies.

Carretta, C.,听Burgess, A. W., & DeMarco, R. (2016). To tell or not to tell.听Violence Against Women, 22(13), 1499-1518. DOI: 10.1177/1077801215627507