Dr david lisa k biography

American pscyhologist

David Lisak is an American clinical psychologist. He received his PhD from Duke University, and is a retired associate professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts Boston.^[1] Lisak's research focuses on "the causes and consequences of interpersonal violencemotives and behaviors of rapists and murderers, the impact of childhood abuse on adult men, and relationship between child abuse and later violence".^[2]

Research

Lisak began his research in graduate school at Duke in the s.

He had noticed that most of the research on rape and sexual assault consisted of interviews with victims, who reported almost exclusively acquaintance rape rather than stranger rape, and studies on incarcerated rapists, who were almost exclusively stranger rapists. Lisak became interested in studying the rapists who committed the most common form of rape but who did not get caught and go to prison.^[4]

Lisak performed a meta