📜 Peer-reviewed

Wozniak-Cole, V. (2024). The law and nothing but the law? How the law can fail victims of human trafficking during the criminal justice process in the Netherlands. Justice, Power and Resistance, 8(1), 78–94. https://doi.org/10.1332/26352338Y2024D000000029

Wozniak-Cole, V., & Hausman, J.-M. (2024). La construction du sens dans le chef de la victime d’un acte criminel: Étude exploratoire autour du concept d’« injustice narrative », forgĂ© aux confins de la victimologie narrative et de la psychologie du traumatisme. Revue de droit pĂ©nal et de criminologie, 104(11), 1058–1079.

Wozniak-Cole, V., Parmentier, S. and Hausman, J.M. (2024) Turning victimhood into agency through the power of stories: how victims make sense of human trafficking experiences, in Participation, Collaboration and Co-creation: Qualitative Inquiry Across and Beyond Divides, Congress proceedings, 7th European Congress for Qualitative Inquiry, Helsinki: Helsinki University, pp 109–15.

Wozniak-Cole, V. (2025). From Victim to Victor through the Transformative Power of Stories: How Survivors Make Sense of Human-Trafficking Experiences. Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies, 14(1), 55-78.

Lannier, S., Wozniak-Cole, V., & El Dekmak, N. (2025). The 2024 revision of the Anti-Trafficking Directive 2011/36/EU: A comprehensive update? Journal of Human Trafficking, Enslavement and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence, 6(1), 27–52. DOI 10.7590/266644725X17512741575463 2666‑447x 2025.

Wozniak-Cole, V. & Palacios, M.-L. The challenges for effective recognition by the state for victims of sexual and gender-based violence: a study of the similarities between Guatemala and Belgium. International Review of Victimology. Accepted for publication in 2025.

Wozniak-Cole, V.; Zhu Y., Rivera HolguĂ­n M., Supporting Professional Resilience: Vicarious Trauma Prevention. Graduate Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Accepted for publication in 2025.

Wozniak-Cole, V. & Lannier S., Beyond the Surface: Identified victims of human trafficking and those left behind, Book chapter in: Hidden and Unrecognized Victims, Palgrave. Accepted for publication in 2025.

In Peer-review:

Wozniak-Cole, V.; Parmentier S; Hausman J.-M; Grietens H., The Overlap between Personal Life Domains and the Judicial Process: An Exploratory Review of Secondary Victimization in Human Trafficking Cases. Journal of Psychosocial Studies

Wozniak-Cole, V.; Struyf, Pia; “You experienced that as well, no?”: Ethics of care and fostering trust when researching hard-to-reach populations” Book chapter in: ‘Women’s Lived Experience as Researchers: Situating the Personal in Qualitative Inquiry’, Routledge

Wozniak-Cole, V.; The implementation of the directive 2012/29/EU on child victims: The consequences of secondary victimization on child victims based on a victim’s narrative. Book chapter in: ‘International Handbook of Wellbeing and Wellness in Criminal Justice’. Routledge

In Preparation:

Wozniak-Cole, V.; de Jong P.W.; Leerkes A, Klassenjustitie? Een onderzoek naar de invloed van sociaaleconomische factoren en migratieachtergrond op de uitkomsten in het Nederlandse strafrecht. WODC

Wozniak-Cole, V.; Parmentier, S.; Rauschenbach, M., Eisenreich, W; Letica Crepulja, M; Danakil, A.; ValjaĆĄkovĂĄ A. Trauma-Informed Practice for Teachers, Youth Workers and Parents. KU Leuven