Dr. Jung's research examines how changes in technology and policy shape crime and its control. She studies the mechanisms behind technology-facilitated violence — why individuals come to see harms such as image-based sexual abuse, sextortion, and online harassment as available options — and how legal, platform, and social controls shape those decisions. Her broader research agenda spans cybercrime, criminological theory, and evidence-based policing, including her work on a National Institute of Justice-funded study of mental health and retention among early-career police officers. She approaches these questions using experimental designs and advanced quantitative methods. Her research has appeared in journals including Justice Quarterly, Crime & Delinquency, the Journal of Criminal Justice, and Feminist Criminology. 

Dr. Jung's interest in these questions began at the Korea Communications Standards Commission, where she traced and flagged online sexual abuse material for the Digital Sexual Violence Response Division, and continued through her work as a researcher at the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs. She received her Ph.D. in criminology and criminal justice from the University of South Carolina and holds an M.S.S. in information sociology from Soongsil University in Seoul, South Korea. Her doctoral research was supported by an International Doctoral Degree Fellowship from the American Association of University Women.