Angie Kennedy
Associate Professor of Social Work
Angie Kennedy's research focuses on different types of victimization among adolescents and young adults.
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Angela Kennedy has been committed to working to end violence against women since the late 1980s, when she first volunteered as a domestic violence advocate as an undergraduate student.
Kennedy’s work focuses on cumulative victimization (including community and school violence, family violence, and intimate partner violence, or IPV) and associated outcomes among adolescents and young adults. She is especially interested in using innovative methods to examine patterns of co-occurring and cumulative
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victimization over time; she has expertise in both quantitative and qualitative methods.
Current projects include a study examining how cumulative victimization (community and school violence exposure, witnessing IPV within the family, physical maltreatment by a caregiver, and sexual victimization) during childhood and adolescence predicts IPV victimization and perpetration over time within a sample of young women ages 18-24.
Education
University of Illinois: Ph.D., Social Work | 2003
University of Iowa: M.S.W., Social Work | 1993
Grinnell College: B.A., Psychology | 1989
Selected Press
What Predicts Teen Partner Rape?
MSU Today | 2019-01-03
“There’s this idea that sexual violence doesn’t happen in relationships – certainly not in young women’s first relationships – which is absolutely not the case,” said Angie Kennedy, associate professor of social work and lead author. “We wanted to examine the most severe forms of sexual violence – rape and attempted rape – to better understand the specific risk factors linked to partner rape among young women. Our results can be used to inform prevention and intervention efforts aimed at reducing sexual violence among young people.”
Domestic Violence Is Alarmingly Common in Chicago
Chicago Magazine | 2013-05-17
Last year, MSU professor Angie Kennedy and her colleagues surveyed “180 female high school students in a poor Chicago community,” and came up with more startling findings...
Why the Cycle of Domestic Violence Is Hard to Break
Chicago Magazine | 2013-02-26
This in turn—particularly the question asked of the victim—reminded me of a recent study by Angie Kennedy, a UIC Ph.D. now at Michigan State, who studied family violence in Chicago and its correlation to later domestic violence...
Social Work and Eugenics
Social Work Blog: National Association of Social Workers | 2011-11-01
For example, the policy and practice of sterilizing women perceived as overly sexual in their behavior has descendents in policies to address and regulate the behavior of women in what Michigan State Social Work Professor Angie Kennedy calls “the reproductive underclass.” Her article about eugenics and social work in the February 2008 issue of Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work is worth reading.
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