denise boots

I am a Professor of Public Policy and Political Economy at the University of Texas at Dallas since 2006. I am a criminologist and my research focuses on violence and homicide with specific interest in parricide, domestic violence and child abuse, mental health and violence, sexual assault and Title IX, youth crime, the death penalty, and program evaluation. Specialties: Mental illness and violent crime, developmental/lifecourse criminology, death penalty, domestic and intimate partner violence, parricide, youth crime, child abuse and neglect, psychosocial explanations of crime, sexual assault, and evaluation