Kenna Quinet has spent 35 years of her life studying homicide. “As long as there have been human beings, there have been homicides,” she says.
She’s gathered data and case files for decades, worked on cold case investigations, and recently became a certified medicolegal death investigator. She and her co-authors literally just re-wrote the book on homicide, with the fifth edition of “The Will to Kill” textbook set to release in April.
Now, after a nearly five-year hiatus, she’s bringing back one of SPEA’s most popular courses for the Fall 2018 semester. “Murder in America” takes an in-depth look at homicide laws, data, theory, and intervention strategies. The class also focuses on different types of homicide: domestic, serial, mass, medical, school, and cults. (more…)