Veronica Shepp
Biographic Data
| ID | 254760 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Veronica Shepp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Veronica |
| FAMILY NAME | Shepp |
| SIGNATURE | SHEPP V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Montana State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1858-5268 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“I Feel Caged in a Different Way”
Sex workers are at risk of state violence, surveillance, and becoming justice-involved. This risk is exacerbated by the criminalization of sex work and pro-criminalization efforts to rescue sex trafficking victims. Using the theoretical foundations of the carceral creep, the shadow state, and carceral protectionism/humanitarianism, interviews were conducted with 34 sex workers. Participants described impacts of carceral entanglements , which appe…
Support to Survive or Surviving Support? Barriers to Seeking Gender-Based Violence Services for Sex Workers
Although there exists a surfeit of information about gender-based violence (GBV) survivor’s experiences seeking support, sex workers are left out both in the mainstream anti-violence discourse as well as the academic scholarship. Additionally, sex workers disparately experience violence by the state, intimate partners, clients, and strangers (Fehrenbacher et al., Citation2020). Sex workers with experiences of GBV are uniquely positioned to illumi…
What's Missing Matters
Hundreds of thousands of sexual assault kits (SAKs) remain unsubmitted nationwide despite their potential usefulness in the successful prosecution of alleged perpetrators. Literature explores the probative value of SAK evidence in sexual assault cases. SAK evidence is processed along a three-link criminal justice chain of custody involving (1) health-care professionals who enter data into a forensic medical report (FMR) and then transfer both to …
The Carceral Logic of Title IX
Universities in the United States have undertaken the goal of addressing gender-based violence (GBV) on campus. Legal reforms have provided guidance on how this should be done, including the adoption of Title IX and the 2011 Dear Colleague letter. This guidance focuses on limiting liability concerns through mandatory/responsible employee reporting and investigatory practices rather than providing survivors with autonomy and healing. Proponents of…
Survivors’ Experiences of Sexual Assault by Intimate Partners
Sexual Assault Impacts on Sexuality and Queer Identity
Only We Can Protect Us
This special issue has called for scholars to critically evaluate how we can better connect with community activists to address gender-based violence (GBV). We seek to complicate this by instead positing the following: scholars and community activists should be one in the same. The authors reflect on their experiences combining their anti-GBV and labor organizing to take on the neoliberal university. We detail our experiences organizing graduate …
Sexual Harassment in the Academy
Higher education is not immune to the epidemic of sexual harassment in the United States, particularly sexual harassment of graduate workers. This is due largely to power differentials of status and income, as academia relies on low-wage work. While the literature shows sexual harassment is prevalent across disciplines, current work to address the problem does not account for graduate worker precarity. The graduate labor movement, which addresses…
Reasons for and Experiences of Sexual Assault Nondisclosure in a Diverse Community Sample
Sexual Assault Survivors Who Exchange Sex
It is well established in the literature that individuals who engage in sex work are more likely to experience sexual trauma/violence, but little research has examined experiences of sexual assault survivors who exchange sex from the survivor's perspective. Sexual assault survivors and their informal support providers (SP; e.g., family, friends, romantic partners) were interviewed separately about disclosure, social reactions, and help-seeking fo…
Navigating Sex and Sexuality After Sexual Assault
Qualitative interview data from 45 matched pairs of survivors disclosing sexual assaults and their primary informal support providers (e.g., friend, family member, significant other) were used to explore survivor and support provider perspectives on changes in sexuality postassault and how those close to them have been affected as a result. Changes in sexuality included loss of interest in sex, increase or change in sexual partners, engaging in s…
Navigating Sex and Sexuality After Sexual Assault
Qualitative interview data from 45 matched pairs of survivors disclosing sexual assaults and their primary informal support providers (e.g., friend, family member, significant other) were used to explore survivor and support provider perspectives on changes in sexuality postassault and how those close to them have been affected as a result. Changes in sexuality included loss of interest in sex, increase or change in sexual partners, engaging in s…
Reasons for and Experiences of Sexual Assault Nondisclosure in a Diverse Community Sample
Sexual Assault Survivors Who Exchange Sex
It is well established in the literature that individuals who engage in sex work are more likely to experience sexual trauma/violence, but little research has examined experiences of sexual assault survivors who exchange sex from the survivor's perspective. Sexual assault survivors and their informal support providers (SP; e.g., family, friends, romantic partners) were interviewed separately about disclosure, social reactions, and help-seeking fo…
The Carceral Logic of Title IX
Universities in the United States have undertaken the goal of addressing gender-based violence (GBV) on campus. Legal reforms have provided guidance on how this should be done, including the adoption of Title IX and the 2011 Dear Colleague letter. This guidance focuses on limiting liability concerns through mandatory/responsible employee reporting and investigatory practices rather than providing survivors with autonomy and healing. Proponents of…
Survivors’ Experiences of Sexual Assault by Intimate Partners
Only We Can Protect Us
This special issue has called for scholars to critically evaluate how we can better connect with community activists to address gender-based violence (GBV). We seek to complicate this by instead positing the following: scholars and community activists should be one in the same. The authors reflect on their experiences combining their anti-GBV and labor organizing to take on the neoliberal university. We detail our experiences organizing graduate …
Navigating Sex and Sexuality After Sexual Assault
Qualitative interview data from 45 matched pairs of survivors disclosing sexual assaults and their primary informal support providers (e.g., friend, family member, significant other) were used to explore survivor and support provider perspectives on changes in sexuality postassault and how those close to them have been affected as a result. Changes in sexuality included loss of interest in sex, increase or change in sexual partners, engaging in s…
Sexual Assault Survivors Who Exchange Sex
It is well established in the literature that individuals who engage in sex work are more likely to experience sexual trauma/violence, but little research has examined experiences of sexual assault survivors who exchange sex from the survivor's perspective. Sexual assault survivors and their informal support providers (SP; e.g., family, friends, romantic partners) were interviewed separately about disclosure, social reactions, and help-seeking fo…
Reasons for and Experiences of Sexual Assault Nondisclosure in a Diverse Community Sample
Sexual Harassment in the Academy
Higher education is not immune to the epidemic of sexual harassment in the United States, particularly sexual harassment of graduate workers. This is due largely to power differentials of status and income, as academia relies on low-wage work. While the literature shows sexual harassment is prevalent across disciplines, current work to address the problem does not account for graduate worker precarity. The graduate labor movement, which addresses…
The Carceral Logic of Title IX
Universities in the United States have undertaken the goal of addressing gender-based violence (GBV) on campus. Legal reforms have provided guidance on how this should be done, including the adoption of Title IX and the 2011 Dear Colleague letter. This guidance focuses on limiting liability concerns through mandatory/responsible employee reporting and investigatory practices rather than providing survivors with autonomy and healing. Proponents of…
Survivors’ Experiences of Sexual Assault by Intimate Partners
Sexual Assault Impacts on Sexuality and Queer Identity
Only We Can Protect Us
This special issue has called for scholars to critically evaluate how we can better connect with community activists to address gender-based violence (GBV). We seek to complicate this by instead positing the following: scholars and community activists should be one in the same. The authors reflect on their experiences combining their anti-GBV and labor organizing to take on the neoliberal university. We detail our experiences organizing graduate …
What's Missing Matters
Hundreds of thousands of sexual assault kits (SAKs) remain unsubmitted nationwide despite their potential usefulness in the successful prosecution of alleged perpetrators. Literature explores the probative value of SAK evidence in sexual assault cases. SAK evidence is processed along a three-link criminal justice chain of custody involving (1) health-care professionals who enter data into a forensic medical report (FMR) and then transfer both to …
Support to Survive or Surviving Support? Barriers to Seeking Gender-Based Violence Services for Sex Workers
Although there exists a surfeit of information about gender-based violence (GBV) survivor’s experiences seeking support, sex workers are left out both in the mainstream anti-violence discourse as well as the academic scholarship. Additionally, sex workers disparately experience violence by the state, intimate partners, clients, and strangers (Fehrenbacher et al., Citation2020). Sex workers with experiences of GBV are uniquely positioned to illumi…
“I Feel Caged in a Different Way”
Sex workers are at risk of state violence, surveillance, and becoming justice-involved. This risk is exacerbated by the criminalization of sex work and pro-criminalization efforts to rescue sex trafficking victims. Using the theoretical foundations of the carceral creep, the shadow state, and carceral protectionism/humanitarianism, interviews were conducted with 34 sex workers. Participants described impacts of carceral entanglements , which appe…
Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Poison control (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Medical emergency (5 works) · Qualitative research (5 works) · Sex work and related issues (5 works)