Lab Alumnae

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

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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