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Dr. Alexis Kennedy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.  The research in the Legal and Social Issues Research Lab focuses on the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse.
 
In addition to the work being done in Las Vegas, Dr. Kennedy continues to collaborate on research from the Prostitution Offender Program of British Columbia with Dr. Boris Gorzalka and Carolin Klein at the University of British Columbia.

Dr. M. Alexis Kennedy received her law degree from the University of Manitoba, Canada in 1993 and her Ph.D. in Forensic Psychology from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada in 2004. She also received a B.A. in Criminology from the University of Toronto in 1990. Her areas of interest include child abuse, sexual assault, body image and prostitution. Her doctoral dissertation on cross-cultural perceptions of child abuse won two American Psychological Association awards (Divisions 37 & 41).

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