Deniese Kennedy-Kollar

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Deniese Kennedy-Kollar

Associate Professor, Chair for Criminal Justice

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About

Deniese Kennedy-Kollar earned her PhD in Criminal Justice from the City University of New York Graduate Center. She also holds a MA in Forensic Psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a BA in Psychology from SUNY Stonybrook. Before joining the faculty at Molloy she taught at Monroe College, Adelphi University, and John Jay College of Criminal Justice. In addition, she spent several years conducting research with a forensic psychiatric population at Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Hospital and with the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research at Manhattan Psychiatric Center. She has authored two papers on the topic of mass murder and mass shootings and has presented on the topic at several national conferences including the American Society of Criminology and the Eastern Psychological Association. She is currently an Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Criminal Justice and Legal Studies.

Presentations:
Presentation of “Issues in Technological Privacy” at panel discussion on “The Digital Future” at Molloy College – October 22, 2013
 
Presentation of “Hegemonic Masculinity and Mass Murder” at American Society of Criminology annual conference November 19-22, 2014 in San Francisco CA    
 
Presentation of “Beta Upsising: Aggrieved Male Entitlement and Mass Shootings” at the American Society of Criminology annual conference – November 16-19, 2016 in New Orleans, LA
 
Presentation of “Beta Upsising: Aggrieved Male Entitlement and Mass Shootings” at the Eastern Psychological Association annual conference – March 1-2, 2018 in Philadelphia, PA

Presentation on mass shootings and participated in the panel discussion for Trauma and Healing: Remembering the 5:33
November 27, 2018 at Molloy College.

Work in progress:
The effect of place management on sexual harassment of social media and online dating platforms.

Research Interests

  • mass murder, crime and technology, Internet crime and deviance

Disciplines

  • Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Criminology and Criminal Justice