July 12 - 14, 2026
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Program Topics
We invite submissions on all aspects of violence prevention including:
- Child maltreatment and abuse
- Commercial sexual exploitation of children
- Image based abuse
- Intimate partner violence
- Sexual abuse and assault
- Technology-facilitated abuse
- Polyvictimization
We hope to receive submissions representing diverse methodological approaches and topics, including but not limited to:
- Community-based participatory research
- Developmental and ecological approaches
- Equitable Dissemination Strategies
- Ethical issues in research and working with victims of violence
- Historical changes or trends in reporting and incidence
Innovations in methodology and data analysis - Meta-analyses or systematic reviews
- Program evaluation
- Survivor-Centered Research Designs
- Theoretical and conceptual innovations
We are also interested in international perspectives on violence prevention, and research that helps to understand the perspectives of understudied, marginalized groups and those at increased risk for violence and victimization.
Session Formats
Single paper submissions. Abstracts accepted as a single paper submission will be given as an oral presentation as a part of paper panels that include 3 or 4 papers. Usually, approximately 15-20 minutes is available to each presenter (varying somewhat depending on the number of presentations in a panel and the length of the time slot).
Panel submissions. A panel submission is a pre-organized symposium. You will select a chair with 3 to 4 papers linked by a common theme to present together in a single session. Please indicate order papers will be presented and each author to present them. This assists us when we are scheduling.
Poster submissions. A poster is a visual presentation of a project. Poster sessions offer opportunities for more informal interaction with conference attendees, who can discuss your work one-on-one. For conference attendees, poster sessions offer the opportunity to learn about many studies in a single session.
We are accepting up to 3 submissions per first author presenter and are maintaining an increased number of poster sessions this year so that we can accommodate the greatest number of presenters possible.
