Students that Dr. Kennedy has chaired for a thesis or dissertation
2024-2025
Teresa Marie (Doctoral candidate)
2023-2024
Alexandra Merletti (M.A.). Discerning moral injury.
Makaylen Tadeo (M.A.) Adverse childhood experiences: Why trafficking victims end up running away, getting in trouble, and being homeless.
2022-2023
Carolyn Willis (Ph.D.) Offender reintegration in Nevada: A longitudinal study focusing on transitional challenges, reentry capital, & recidivism.
Kaitlyn Swanberg (M.A.) Supervision in the digital age: Online sexual solicitation of children and youth.
Hannah Barti (M.A.) Finish this over drinks? A study of sexual harassment perceptions.
Kevin Hoover (M.A.). Coercive sexuality: The effect of early victimization on one’s views and attitudes toward sex.
2019-2022
Alexa (Elena) Bejinariu (Ph.D.) Commercial sexual exploitation: A survey of the knowledge, concerns, and training of transit personnel in Las Vegas, Nevada
Christie Ra (M.A.) Missed opportunities: The effect of CPS involvement on trafficking victims in the delinquency system
Marissa Tiemann (M.A.) What happens in Vegas: The influence of Las Vegas on high-risk attitudes and behaviors
2018-2019
Kelly Stout (Ph.D.) Missed Opportunities: The effect of CPS involvement on trafficking victims in the delinquency system.
2017-2018
Shon Reed (M.A.) Boys to men: Victimization, Masculinity and Offending.
2013-2014
Carolyn Willis (M.A.) Attitudes and perceptions toward sex tourism in Las Vegas
Emily Reed (M.A.) Physical child abuse and racial bias
2012-2013
Shauna Davis (Ph.D.) Sexual assault detectives justifications for aggressive victim interviewing methods: A qualitative study : Davis2013SADetectives
Kelly Stout (M.A.) Perceptions of Police Response to Domestic Violence: University of Nevada, Las Vegas, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2013. 1543295
2011-2012
Job Birds (M.A.) Sexual harassment in Las Vegas (UNLV Paper 1543)
Mark Valentin (M.A.) Troubled Youth: Girls in Gangs (UNLV Paper 1640)
2010-2011
Chrystal Ruggieri (M.A.) Child Advocacy Centers and child sexual abuse in Nevada (UNLV Paper 923)
2009-2010
Lisa Dooley (M.A.) An examination of the relationship between the hypersexual environment of Las Vegas and forcible rape (UNLV Paper 8)
Brian Brehman (M.A.) Factors influencing attitudes toward prostitution (UNLV Paper 217)
Alanna Robinson (M.A.) Characteristics of adolescent females exploited through prostitution (UNLV Paper 323)
2008-2009
Debra Cochrane (M.A.) Attitudes towards Megan’s law applying to juveniles
Brittnie Watkins (M.A.) Race and certification of juveniles in Clark County
2007-2008
Angela Cook (M.A.) Stalking and intimate partner violence in Nevada
Angela Lok (M.A.) Asian massage parlors in Clark County
Melanie Taylor (M.A.) Victimization on social networking sites
2006-2007
Krystal Letourneau (M.A.) Attitudes toward human trafficking in Nevada
Joey Nicole Pucci (M.A.) Preliminary validation of an attitudes toward prostitution scale