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Chitra Raghavan, PhD (she/her/hers)

Director
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
New York, New York, United States

Dr. Raghavan conducts research on power dynamics—that is coercive control-- in intimate partner abuse, sexual assault, sex trafficking, and cult contexts with a particular interest in conceptual development and ecologically valid assessments in forensic contexts. A second area of research and clinical interest is how captive abuse leads to particular expressions of trauma and dissociation including posttraumatic stress disorder, Complex PTSD, and trauma bonds. A third area of interest is applying Eastern Psychological principles to forensic psychology. She has written over fifty scientific articles and authored two books; Raghavan, C. & Levine, J. (Eds.). (2012). Self Determination and Women’s Rights in the Muslim World. HBI Series on Gender, Culture Religion, and Law. Boston: Brandeis University Press and Raghavan C. & Cohen, S.J. (Eds.) (2013). Domestic Violence: Methodologies in Dialogue. Northeastern Series on Gender, Crime, and Law, Northeastern University Press. With her co-author Dr. Doychak, she is currently working on a third book with Oxford University Press which intends to render coercive control assessments accessible to law enforcement, legal personnel, and mental health professionals.

Dr. Raghavan is a practicing psychologist and deemed an expert by the courts in intimate partner violence, sexual coercion, sex trafficking, coercive control, trauma, and trauma bonding. Her research and testimony has created case law in New York State (https://law.justia.com/cases/new-york/other-courts/2018/2018-ny-slip-op-28161.html). For more information, please visit her website (http://www.jjay.cuny.edu/faculty/chitra-raghavan.

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