But back in the seventies, when Burgess and Holmstrom conducted their study of rape victims, the work was so revolutionary that it caught the attention of the FBI. In fact, when Burgess was contacted ...

Burgess completed her dissertation research to become an assistant professor at Boston College in 1969, which lead to her meeting Lynda Lytle Holmstrom - a sociologist at Boston University.

In 1972, Dr. Holmstrom, along with Connell School of Nursing faculty member Ann W. Burgess, founded a rape victim counseling program at Boston City Hospital—among the first to be based in a ...

Ann Wolbert Burgess, D.N.Sc., APRN, FAAN ... Her research with victims began when she co-founded, with Boston College sociologist Lynda Lytle Holmstrom, one of the first hospital-based crisis ...