Sarah Lockwood

Criminology and Justice Policy, PhD

Sarah Lockwood is a doctoral candidate at Northeastern University. Sarah holds a B.A in Psychology and B.S in Criminology from the University of South Florida, and received her Master’s degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Northeastern. Her interest centers on the role of victimization on individual outcomes, with emphasis on how victims intersect with formal institutions such as police and health institutions. She is specifically interested in how victim outcomes change due to the responses of these formal institutions, including barriers to access, stigma to seeking help, or reluctance to engage with formal institutions among vulnerable communities. Her work on victimization has included examining crimes against vulnerable populations, particularly regarding sex trafficking and hate crime. While working as a graduate researcher in the Center on Crime, Race and Justice, she has contributed to six National Institute of Justice grants, including one most recently examining the health and wellness needs of minor sex trafficking victims, and another exploring the criminal justice and health care needs of Latinx victims of hate and bias victimization. Through the center, she has also become a research consultant for the Children’s Advocacy Center of Suffolk County, researching residential placement options for commercially exploited or trafficked youth. Her dissertation focuses on the framing and public response to male victims of sex trafficking. In Spring 2023, she was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Researcher Award for Northeastern University.

Related Schools & Departments

School of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Publications

Lockwood, S., & Cuevas, C. A. (2020). Hate crimes and race-based trauma on Latinx populations: a critical review of the current research. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 1524838020979688.

Farrell, A., & Lockwood, S. (2023). Addressing Hate Crime in the 21st Century: Trends, Threats, and Opportunities for Intervention. Annual Review of Criminology, 6, 107-130. https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-criminol-030920-091908

Yohros, A., Geisler, I., Lockwood, S., Miller, E., Wills, C., Farrell, A., & Cuevas, C. (2022). Examining Avoidance, Victimization Risk, and Perceptions of Community Safety in Latinx Communities. Crime & Delinquency, 00111287221126075.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00111287221126075

Lockwood, S., Farrell, A., Cuevas, C. A., & Robles, J. (2022). Bias crime and victimization among Latinx adults: Formal and informal help seeking. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37(23-24), NP22600-NP22626. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/08862605211072175

De Vries, I., Abeyta, S., Lockwood, S., Cuevas, C. A., & Rothman, E. (2022). A network approach to examining co-occurring victimization and perpetration in dating abuse among a nationally representative sample of US adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Health, 70(6), 934-941. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1054139X21006972

Cuevas, C. A., Farrell, A., McDevitt, J., Robles, J., Lockwood, S., Geisler, I., … & Zhang, S.(2021). Hate crime and bias victimization of Latinx adults: Rates from a multisite community sample. Psychology of Violence, 11(6), 529. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2021-68487-001?doi=1

Lockwood, S., & Cuevas, C. A. (2022). Hate crimes and race-based trauma on Latinx populations: A critical review of the current research. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 23(3), 854-867. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1524838020979688

Farrell, A., Dank, M., de Vries, I., Kafafian. M., Hughes, A., & Lockwood., S. (2019). Failing Victims? Challenges of the Police Responses to Human Trafficking. Criminology & Public Policy, 18(3), 649-673. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1745-9133.12456

Presentations

Yohros, A. & Lockwood, S. (2021). Informed Justice: Bridging the Gap Between Research, Public Policy, and the General Public. Intersections: An Interdisciplinary Human Trafficking Seminar Series. Operations Research and Social Justice Lab, Northeastern University, Boston.

More Student Paths

Charles T. Wallace-Thomas IV

Charles took "Sustainable Renewable Energy Development in the Global South" with Professor Shalanda Baker, which pushed him to further question systems as they exist, no matter their entrenched in society.
He did community service as part of the Ujima Global Leaders Program through the John D. O’Bryant African American Institute. He worked on the Timebank team, helping give back to local communities.
Charles split his time for his first co-op between the Center for Economic Democracy and the Boston Ujima Project, where he analyzed studies on community needs, including infrastructure and childcare.
He was one of the co-creators of the #BlackAtNU campaign and advocated for racial literacy courses and a restorative and transformative justice center on campus.
Charles made his own research project- a macroeconomic index to measure democratic participation in municipal economies, partnering with NU, the Columbus Foundation and the Center for Economic Democracy.
He worked at the Participatory Budgeting Project as a Program Associate, helping city systems and other organizations actively decide how to invest money across different spaces.
Charles graduated in 2022. ..

Casey Greenleaf

Casey took Global Markets and Local Cultures. After traveling, she better saw how the coursework mirrored real life, and knew her education was preparing her for the world.
She went on a DOC to Argentina and Uruguay, and become highly proficient while living in Buenos Aires and visiting the glaciers of the Patagonia region.
Casey completed her first co-op at the Museum of Fine Arts as a community arts program assistant. She gained valuable hands-on experience assisting in arts classes for local communities.
She joined the Sociology & Anthropology Student Association during her third year. It allowed her to get to know her fellow students and mirrored the small school experience she loved.
Casey studied abroad in Nepal for her capstone thesis. She lived alone for a month while she researched and wrote about the lived experience of climate change in the lower Himalayas.
She worked for the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, founded by Professor Sarah Wylie. She produced promotional videos, developed a virtual research event, wrote event programming, and more.
Casey graduated in 2020. ..

Sunita Pfitzner

Sunita took Revolution, Civil War, and Insurrection, taught by Professor Risa Kitagawa. The course invited students to question the motives behind acts of violence against governments.
She traveled on a Dialogue of Civilizations to Jordan and Egypt; while there she grew interested in Middle East politics and the Arabic language.
Sunita worked at the Institute for Economics and Peace in Sydney, Australia, where she analyzed data on the corruption of police forces in Mexico.
Sunita was a member of the International Relations Council and traveled abroad with the club to compete in Model Arab League, Model NATO, and Model UN conferences.
Sunita conducted research with Berna Turam, developing a greater understanding of the Mediterranean migrant crisis. She also researched the feminist response to Covid-19 with Val Moghadam.
She graduated Summa Cum Laude in 2022.
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Yasser Aponte

Yasser was in the Foundation Year program at Northeastern. The program was a rigorous deep dive into core subject classes that helped Yasser bridge the gap between his high school and college experiences.
He took Issues in Cities and Suburbs with Professor Erin Graves in Fall 2018. As someone deeply invested in urban life, he found the course was an enlightened look at the problems endemic to cities.
Yasser joined the Boston Beer Company as a Program Operations and Event Assistant for his first co-op. He worked on inventory, public relations, brewery events, and workspace organization.
He implemented community gardens all over Boston on deserted plots of land during his time as the Northeastern Campus Director for the campus’ United Nations Millennium Fellowship.
Yasser maintained a farm in Dorchester for The Food Project. He harvested crops, distributed produce through donations and food markets, and worked on overall logistics.
In 2020, Yasser won the Community Service Leadership award, given to students who show exemplary community engagement. He was recognized for his work at The Food Project, Northeastern Crossing, and more.
He graduated 2022 with his Bachelor’s in International Affairs and Religious Studies and his Master’s in Security and Resilience Studies, through Northeastern’s PlusOne program...