The oldest adult in the Burgess & Holmstrom (1974) sample was a 73-year-old woman who made a delayed report 6 weeks following the crime. She had been raped by a stranger and failed to report due ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.