Trinh Nguyen is a sixth-year PhD student from Fresno, California. She earned her BA in Criminology, Law, and Society from the University of California, Irvine, and her MS from the California State University, Long Beach in Criminology and Criminal Justice. Trinh’s primary research interests include community-police relations, policing, and marginalized communities.

At Temple, Trinh worked as a Research Assistant with Dr. Aunshul Rege on cyber-security decision-making and education research, where she presented and assisted in leading workshops at engineering-related conferences. 

She assisted Dr. Caterina Roman in conducting an impact evaluation of Project Safe Neighborhood (PSN) in Philadelphia, also known as the Call-In Program, based on a focused deterrence violence reduction strategy. 

Recently, she published an article with Dr. Roman on examining police engagement as a form of victim help-seeking using the legal estrangement framework. Her analysis of semi-structured interviews with victims of color found that legal estrangement contextualizes help-seeking in marginalized communities, in addition to socio-ecological and situational contexts contributing to a dynamic help-seeking process. She is expanding on this work for her dissertation and examining a more nuanced perspective on help-seeking that involves police engagement and eliciting support from personal networks following victimization.

Faculty Advisor: Caterina Roman
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