Rate My Professor Samantha Balemba-Brownlee

Her research specializes in sexual violence, particularly situational correlates affecting sexual assault outcomes, victim resistance, victim vulnerabilities including disabilities, sex offender decision-making, and sexual homicides. Key peer-reviewed publications include Dierenfeldt, R. & Balemba, S. (2021). Male sexual victimization: Examining variation in the probability of weapon use and victim injury. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36(11-12), NP5892-NP5920; Balemba, S. & Beauregard, E. (2019). What leads victims to resist? Factors that influence victim resistance in sexual assaults. Journal of Criminal Psychology, 9(3), 122-137; Wong, J. S. & Balemba, S. (2016). The effect of victim resistance on rape completion: A meta-analysis. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 19(3), 352-365; Wong, J. S. & Balemba, S. (2016). Resisting during sexual assault: A meta-analysis of the effects on injury. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 28, 1-11; Balemba, S., Beauregard, E., & Martineau, M. (2014). Getting away with murder: A thematic approach to solved and unsolved sexual homicides using crime scene factors. Police Practice & Research, 15(3), 221-233; and additional works on spatio-temporal aspects of sexual assaults and offender reactions to resistance (Journal of Sexual Aggression, Crime and Delinquency, Violence and Victims, 2012-2013). During graduate studies, she received the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship ($105,000 over three years, 2010-2013), President's Ph.D. Scholarship, Dr. E. A. Fattah Graduate Scholarship, and Carleton University's Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement (2008). Recent grants include Montana University System TRAILS OER Grants (2020, $3,720; 2021, $930) and Culture of Respect Collective Rape Prevention Education funding ($10,000, 2019).