Expertise

Her research focuses on various aspects of death and homicide including serial and mass homicides, missing persons, prostitutes as serial homicide victims, causes of death, unclaimed and unidentified dead, and opioid deaths.

Criminology.

Communities
Environmental Policy, Public Administration
Degrees
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Sociology, 1992
MA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Sociology, 1984
BA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Sociology, 1982