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DR. KENNA QUINET

Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Law and Public Safety
School of Public and Environmental Affairs
OFFICE: BS 4064
PHONE: 317-274-3447
E-MAIL: kfquinet@iupui.edu

Kenna Quinet joined the SPEA faculty in 1992. Her research focuses on various aspects of homicide including serial and mass homicides, medical murder and causes of death. She teaches courses on criminological theory and policy as well as a popular course on homicide. Quinet has won ten teaching awards since she came to IUPUI. She has worked with the Indiana law enforcement and firefighter community for 15 years. Most recently, she is a co-author of The Will To Kill: Making Sense of Senseless Murder with Jamie Fox and Jack Levin.

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INTELLECTUAL CONTRIBUTIONS

2007 Quinet Kenna. "The Missing Missing: Towards a Quantification of Serial Murder Victimization in the United States", submitted for publication (being revised and resubmitted) Homicide Studies.

2006 Quinet Kenna, Roger Jarjoura, Robert Brown, Thomas Stucky, Samuel Nunn, Bill Newby and Crystal Garcia, "Performance Metrics for ICJI, 2006", Prepared for the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute through the Center for Urban Policy and the Environment. March 2006.

2006 Nunn, Sam, Quinet, Kenna, Rowe, Kelley and Donald Christ, "Interdiction Day: Covert Surveillance Operations, Drugs and Serious Crime in an Inner-City Neighborhood." Police Quarterly, Volume 9, No. 1, pp.73-99.

2005 Fox, James Alan, Jack Levin and Kenna Quinet. The Will to Kill: Making Sense of Senseless Murder. Allyn and Bacon (New edition forthcoming Fall 2007)

2005 Nunn, Sam, Quinet, Kenna and William Newby. "Indiana Multi-Jurisdictional Drug Task Forces, 2002 and 2003." Prepared for the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute through the Center for Urban Policy and the Environment. August 2005.

2003 Quinet, Kenna, Sam Nunn and Nikki Kincaid, "Measuring the Effectiveness of Problem Oriented Policing Training: An Empirical Assessment of Attitudinal Change." Police Practice and Research, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 263-283.

2002 Nunn, Sam and Kenna Quinet, "Evaluating the Effects of Information technology on Problem Oriented Policing: If It Doesn't Fit, Must We Quit?" Evaluation Review, Volume 26 No.1, pp. 81-107.

2002 Quinet, Kenna and Angelina Bird, "Suicides Outnumber Homicides in Central Indiana." Center for Urban Policy and the Environment. March 2002.

2001 Quinet, Kenna and Angelina Bird. "Citizen Perceptions of Public Safety" Center for Urban Policy and the Environment. December 2001.

1998 Davis Quinet, Kenna and Sam Nunn. "Illuminating Crime: The Impact of Street Lighting on Calls for Service." Evaluation Review, Vol. 22 No. 6, pp. 751-779.

1997 Quinet, Kenna, David Bordua and Wright Lassiter. "Line of Duty Police Deaths: A Paradoxical Trend in Police Homicides." Policing and Society, Vol. 6, pp. 283-296.

1995 Lauritsen, Janet and Kenna Davis Quinet. "Repeat Victimization Among Adolescents and young Adults." Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Vol. 11, No. 2: 143-166.

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