Dr. Cho is an associate professor in the School of Social Work at Michigan State University. His research has focused on intimate partner violence (IPV), with a specific emphasis on criminal justice intervention and immigrants.
Dr. Cho conducted secondary data analysis of the National Crime Victimization Survey to examine the effect of police’s arrest of perpetrators on reducing revictimization. He also used the Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys to examine the nature of IPV and use of mental health services among immigrant victims who have not been well represented in national data. He has worked since 2008 with End Violent Encounters (EVE), Inc., a community service agency for victims, to help develop service procedures for immigrant victims whose primary languages are not English.
Dr. Cho is specifically interested in help seeking behaviors among IPV victims, including immigrants. Included in his research topics are victims’ perception of IPV, interpersonal and sociocultural factors affecting victims’ help seeking, and the process of victims’ selecting a source of help. Rigorous data collection from ethnic minority communities and collaboration with culturally competent scholars are emphasized through his research.
Selected Publications
- Cho, H., Kim, W., Gillis, K., Harris, R., Park, Y., Farero, A., & Ma, W. (2024). Intimate Partner Violence Polyvictimization and Female Survivors’ Help-Seeking: Variations by Race/Ethnicity. Journal of Family Violence, 1-14.
- Cho, H., Kim, W., Nelson, A., & Allen, J. (2023). Intimate partner violence Polyvictimization and health outcomes. Violence against women, 29(15-16), 3223-3243.
- An, S., Choi, G. Y., Yun, S. H., Choi, Y. J., Son, E., Cho, H., … & Hong, S. (2023). Intimate partner violence among Hispanic/Latinx and White college students. Violence and victims.
- Seon, J., Cheng, S. Y., Jonson-Reid, M., & Cho, H. (2022). Understanding the interconnected relationships between intimate partner violence and child maltreatment: The role of maternal material hardship. Child Abuse & Neglect, 134, 105912.
- Kim, W., Cho, H., Hong, S., Nelson, A., & Allen, J. (2024). Concurrent intimate partner violence: Survivors’ health and help-seeking. Violence against women, 30(2), 503-523.
