Rate My Professor Mark Reed

Dr. Mark D. Reed serves as Associate Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, a position he has held since joining the faculty in 1993. He earned his Ph.D. in sociology from the State University of New York at Albany in 1986. Throughout his career, Dr. Reed has focused on quantitative analysis and has contributed extensively to the understanding of crime-related traumas and victim experiences within the criminal justice system.

Dr. Reed's primary area of expertise lies in the resiliency of adult and adolescent populations experiencing sudden loss through accidental death, suicide, or homicide. His research emphasizes crime victimization, particularly homicide co-victimization, exploring how criminal justice processes—including death notifications, police investigations, court proceedings, verdicts, and sentencing—impact the well-being of homicide victims' families. He investigates secondary victimization experiences and their influence on families' satisfaction with justice outcomes. Actively engaged in enhancing victim services, Dr. Reed works on developing and improving protocols, services, policies, and legislation to address crime victims' needs. His broader studies cover delinquency, substance use, sudden death bereavement, fear of crime, and crime control models. These findings have been published in highly regarded professional journals and presented at national and regional conferences. Key publications include 'The Administration of Death Notifications in Murder Cases: Retelling the Secondary Victimization Experiences of Homicide Co-Victims' (2022), 'Voice of the Victims: Accounts of Secondary Victimization With the Court System Among Homicide Co-Victims' (2021), 'Tense Relationships between Homicide Co-Victims and Detectives in the Wake of Murder' (2019), 'Power-Control as a Between- and Within-Family Model: Reconsidering the Unit of Analysis' (2003), and 'Fear of Crime and Constrained Behavior: Specifying and Estimating a Reciprocal Effects Model' (1988).