Cathryn Lavery
- Adjunct, Criminal Justice
- School of Social and Behavioral Sciences
- clavery@mercy.edu
Dr. Lavery is in her second year at ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ University as an adjunct teaching the course, Serial Killers. She received her Ph.D. and is a certified mediator with the NYS ABA. She is also certified as a trainer from the Clery Center on Title IX.
She has received additional certifications in sexual victimization and trauma, forensic mental health issues, as a Human Rights Consultant (USIDHR), and in Terrorism and Violent Extremism (ICVE & DHS). She contributed multiple chapters for a book on Officer Wellness and Police Suicide (Springer, 2021). She recently published an article for the peer-reviewed journal, Frontier, entitled, Caring for the Guardians – Exploring Needed Directions and Best Practices for Police Resilience, Practice and Research (co-written with Johnson, O., and H. Grant).
Dr. Lavery has published in various journals including Frontiers, Acta Psychopathologica, Journal of Behavioral Health, and the Journal of Law Enforcement.
In the Spring of 2023, Dr. Lavery began her own podcast, Crimes, Coffee, and Consequences on Spotify.
Dr. Lavery's research projects include officer wellness and resiliency, intimate partner violence, sex crimes, and trauma, pedagogy in criminal justice, humane criminology, social media and violent crime, and human trafficking.
CRJU 296 - Contemporary Issues - Serial Killers
Socio-Political Risk Management: Assessing and Managing Global Insecurity (Lavery, Zaino, Engemann; DeGruyter Publications, 2023)