Cortney Franklin, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Email: c.franklin@wsu.edu

Dr. Cortney Franklin is an Associate Professor in the Division of Governmental Studies and Services at WSU. Prior to her current appointment, she was an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology (2008-2021) and the Executive Director of the Crime Victims’ Institute (2017-2020) at Sam Houston State University. She will join the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Idaho this fall.

Her research centers on violence against women, police response to crime victims, and gender and justice, with special attention to sexual assault and intimate partner violence. Dr. Franklin’s externally funded research portfolio totals more than $3m in federal awards and state contracts, including an Office on Violence Against Women award to assess trauma-informed training on police response to gender violence and a National Institute of Justice award to study non-fatal strangulation in the context of intimate partner violence. She is currently leading a multi-site evaluation of three pre-booking jail diversion programs for justice-involved individuals with serious mental health and substance use disorder needs in Washington State.

Dr. Franklin has published more than 50 refereed articles and book chapters in criminal justice and criminology. Her work has appeared in Crime and Delinquency, Criminal Justice and Behavior, Psychology of Women Quarterly, Journal of Experimental Criminology, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, and Violence Against Women.

Updated on 5/23/2023