Professional Summary
Rebekkah Gross is a Doctoral Candidate in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. Her research focuses on victimology, with particular attention to the victimization of college students and the role of consent education in preventing sexual victimization. She is currently investigating how individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities acquire and interpret the concept of consent, with broader research interests in developing age-appropriate consent education curricula to reduce sexual victimization and promote safety within diverse populations.
Education
B.S.: University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, 2014 (Psychology)
M.S.: University of California, Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, 2018 (Developmental Psychology; Moral Development)
Publications
Peer Reviewed Publications
Fisher, B. S., & Gross, R. L. (2025. ) Evolution of the measurement of rape and sexual assault from 1972 national crime survey to present national crime victimization survey.Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, , 41 (1 ) ,166-195 More Information
Dahl, A., Gross, R. L., & Siefert, C. (2020. ) Young children’s judgments and reasoning about prosocial acts: Impermissible, suberogatory, obligatory, or supererogatory?.Cognitive Development, , 55 ,100908 More Information
Gross, R. L., Drummond, J., Satlof-Bedrick, E., Waugh, W. E., Svetlova, M., & Brownell, C. A. (2015. ) Individual differences in toddlers’ social understanding and prosocial behavior: disposition or socialization?.Frontiers in Psychology, , 6 (May ) ,1-11 More Information
Book Chapter
Dahl, A., Waltzer, T., & Gross, R. L. (2018 ) Helping, hitting, developing: toward a constructivist-interactionist account of early morality. New Perspectives on Moral Development .Routledge
Gross, R. L., Fisher, B. S., Sloan, J. J., III. (2025 ) College student victimization: Identifying milestones, examining prevalence, explaining correlates and consequences, and describing prevention efforts. The Handbook on Violent Crime and Society .Edward Elgar Publishing Limited