Christina Mancini

Christina Mancini is Associate Professor and Criminal Justice Graduate Coordinator at Virginia Commonwealth University's Wilder School. Her research focuses on criminal justice policy responses to sexual victimization, campus safety reforms, public attitudes toward sex crime laws, and Title IX implementation. Mancini co-founded the Sexual Offense Policy Research (SOPR) Workgroup and received research awards from ASC's Victimology Division (2014) and VCU's Wilder School (2015).

Her publications examine public support for criminal justice reforms, campus sexual assault policies, fear of crime dynamics, and institutional responses to victimization. Current projects investigate police reform attitudes post-2020 and fear of gun violence.