Jill Messing specializes in intervention research.

As associate professor in the School of Social Work, her research areas include intimate partner violence, risk assessment, domestic homicide and femicide, criminal justice-social service collaborations and evidence-based practice.

Messing is the Principal Investigator on the National Institute of Justice funded Oklahoma Lethality Assessment Study, which examines the effectiveness of the Lethality Assessment Program across 7 jurisdictions in Oklahoma, and the co-Investigator on the National Institute of Mental Health funded study The Use of Computerized Safety Decision Aids with Victims of Intimate Partner Violence.