Carlos Cuevas

About

Carlos Cuevas is a Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University. He holds a B.A. from Tufts University and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University in San Diego, CA. He is the co-director of the Violence and Justice Research Laboratory. His research interests include victimization and trauma, sexual violence and sexual offending, family violence, and psychological assessment. His work specifically examines victimization among Latinos and its relation to psychological distress and service utilization, as well as the influence of cultural factors on victimization. Additionally, he studies the impact of psychological factors on the revictimization of children and explores the connection between victimization and delinquency. His recent research funded by the National Institute of Justice focuses on the scope and impact of bias crimes against Latinos, and he has collaborated on developing instruments to evaluate bias victimization among youth and teen dating aggression. Professor Cuevas also engages in clinical work, providing assessment and treatment to victims of abuse and trauma as well as sex offenders.

Research topics

• Psychology
• Medicine
• Sociology
• Medical emergency
• Social psychology
• Clinical psychology
• Political Science
• Gender studies
• Demography
• Developmental psychology

Selected publications

• Hate Crimes and Race-Based Trauma on Latinx Populations: A Critical Review of the Current Research

  Trauma Violence & Abuse · 2020 · 34 citations

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  Traditionally, the literature has sought to understand the impact of racial minority status and trauma as it relates to interpersonal violence, domestic violence, and sexual assault. What has not been as extensively reviewed and summarized is how racially or ethnically motivated hate crimes impact the mental health of minorities-particularly Latinx/Hispanic groups. This review aims to summarize the current body of literature on the intersection of race-motivated hate crime and trauma responses w…

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• The Psychometric Properties of the Measure of Adolescent Relationship Harassment and Abuse (MARSHA) With a Nationally Representative Sample of U.S. Youth

  Journal of Interpersonal Violence · 2021 · 27 citations

  = 1,257). Exploratory factor analysis was conducted for the victimization and perpetration versions of the MARSHA, and convergent and divergent validity were assessed using the Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationships Inventory (CADRI) and the juvenile victimization questionnaire (JVQ), respectively. Results suggest that the MARSHA has good reliability and validity, and that each subscale had good internal consistency. The authors propose that the MARSHA may be a strong alternative to the CAD…

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• Exposure to Multiple Forms of Bias Victimization on Youth and Young Adults: Relationships with Trauma Symptomatology and Social Support

  Journal of Youth and Adolescence · 2020 · 20 citations

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• Youth Bias-Based Victimization: Comparing Online Only, In-Person Only, and Mixed Online/In-Person Incidents

  International Journal of Bullying Prevention · 2023-02-23 · 11 citations

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• Victimization of Sexual Minority Latinx Youth: Results From a National Survey

  Journal of Interpersonal Violence · 2022-03-04 · 11 citations

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  Limited previous research has explored the intersectional stress and trauma sexual minority (SM) Latinx youth experience generated by being part of at least two minoritized groups. The Dating Violence among Latino Adolescents (DAVILA) study employed a national sample of Latinx youth and queried a range of victimizations in the past year, via a bilingual phone survey. Of the 1525 12-18-year-old youth interviewed for DAVILA, 123 either identified as lesbian, gay, or bisexual or had at least one sa…

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Frequent coauthors

• Chiara Sabina

  48 shared

• Sarah Lockwood

  13 shared

• Amy Farrell

  10 shared

• Joe Y. Lee

  Memorial Hospital

  9 shared

• Ken‐ryu Han

  University of California, Los Angeles

  9 shared

• Amnon Zisman

  Tel Aviv University

  9 shared

• Yan Moore

  9 shared

• SUSAN D. SWEAT

  Mayo Clinic

  9 shared

Labs

• Violence and Justice Research LaboratoryPI

Education

• Ph.D., sociology

  North Carolina State University

Awards & honors

• NIJ’s W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship (2014)
• Robert Sheehan Excellence in Teaching Award (2016)
• NIJ’s W.E.B. DuBois Fellowship on crime justice and culture…
• NIJ’s Graduate Research Fellowship (1999)
• American Society Criminology Mentor of the Year (2014)

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