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April Zeoli, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Criminal Justice
School of Criminal Justice
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
517-353-9554 phone
517-432-1787 fax
zeoli@msu.edu
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Dr. Zeoli is an Assistant Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. She began working to end violence against women as an undergraduate, in the mid-1990s, and developed her focus of prevention through policy during her graduate education in public health. Broadly, Zeoli’s research examines public policy as a tool through which to reduce intimate partner violence and homicide. She is specifically interested in the role of firearms and alcohol in intimate partner violence and homicide, as well as the criminal justice system response to intimate partner violence. She is also interested in the role of firearms and alcohol in youth homicide offending, with an eye toward the policy implications of those roles. Zeoli is currently conducting research investigating the needs and experiences of women who have accessed family court for custody decisions regarding a child they share with a violent former-partner. This research, which may have far-reaching policy implications, aims to shed light on whether women are being court-ordered into parenting plans that endanger them through allowing their violent former-partners access to them. Zeoli is also currently examining the effects of laws mandating arrest for domestic violence incidents on intimate partner homicide. This research is a longitudinal study of the arrest laws in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Zeoli is also conducting a content analysis of newspaper portrayals of intimate partner homicide.