Victoria Helmly

Ph.D., Criminal Justice & Criminology, Georgia State University (2024)
MSW, Georgia State University (2016)
B.A., Sociology, Georgia State University (2013)

Victoria Helmly is a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Public Health at Georgia State University. She received a B.A. in Sociology from Georgia State University in 2013 and an MSW with a graduate certificate in Gerontology from Georgia State University in 2016. She worked as the Alzheimer’s & Related Dementias State Plan Coordinator for the Georgia Department of Human Services Division of Aging Services from 2016 to 2019. She completed her Ph.D. in Criminal Justice and Criminology at Georgia State University in 2024.

Victoria’s research interests lie at the intersection of aging and the criminal legal system. She seeks to understand the experiences of older adults in prisons and on community supervision, as well as the policies and practices that impact this population. Her postdoctoral research primarily focuses on the experiences of people with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) who have encountered the criminal legal system. This research is funded by the Association for Frontotemporal Dementia.

Victoria is a member of the Georgia Gerontology Society (GGS), the Southern Gerontological Society (SGS), the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), and the Aging Research in Criminal Justice Health (ARCH) Network.