Kevin Borgeson


Professional Details

Title Associate Professor
Department Criminal Justice
Office Harrington Building 308
Phone 978.542.7128
Email kevin.borgeson@salemstate.edu

Recent and Upcoming Courses

CRJ 101 Introduction to Criminal Justice
CRJ 240 Bias Crime
CRJ 250 Introduction to Criminal Investigation Procedures
CRJ 260 Introduction to Forensic Science and Criminalistics
CRJ 355 Corporate, Political Crime and White Collor Crime
CRJ 380 Criminal Profiling
CRJ 520 Internship in Criminal Justice
CRJ 530 Directed Study in Criminal Justice
CRJ 707 Intimate Violence
CRJ 712 Criminal Profiling of Violent Offenders
CRJ 716 Hate Crimes

Professional Biography

 I earned my Ph.D. in Sociology from Northeastern University in 2001. I also hold a Master's degree in Sociology from Northeastern University and a bachelor's degree in Sociology from Bridgewater State College.

Professional Interests

Serial Offenders, Profiling, Hate Crimes, and Right Wing Domestic Terrorism

Responsibilities

Undergraduate Courses: Criminal Investigation, Bias Crimes and Criminal Profiling

Graduate Courses: Advanced Criminal Profiling, Criminological Theory, and Intimate Violence

Selected Publications

Books

  • Borgeson, Kevin; Vogel, Stephanie and Robin Valeri. (2024). Serial Crime. Carolina Academic Press: Durham, NC.
  • Valeri, Robin and Kevin Borgeson. (2024). Hate Crimes: Typologies, Motivations and Victims.  Carolina Academic Press: Durham, North Carolina.
  • Bacigalupo. James; Borgeson, Kevin; and Robin Valeri. (2022). Cyberhate: The Far Right in the Digital Age. Lexington Books: New York.
  • Valeri, Robin and Kevin Borgeson. (2018). Terrorism in America. Routledge: New York, NY.
  • Borgeson, Kevin and Robin Valeri. (2017). Skinheads: History, Identity and Culture. Routledge: New York, NY.

Selected Presentations

“A Content Analysis of Al-Qaeda Propaganda Via Internet.” Poster Presentation at the Northeastern Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Bristol, RI. June, 2016

”Examining the Impact of Terror Management on Attitudes Toward Affirmative Action.” Poster presented at the meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Boston, MA. March,2010.

“Demographic Characteristics of Right Wing Domestic Terrorists.” Poster Presentation Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Boston, MA March,13 2009.

“Misdemeanors and Police Discretion.”  Paper presented at the meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Seattle, WA. March, 2006.

“Does the Nose Know? Examining the Impact of Scent Identification on Juror Decisions.”  Panel at the meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, MD. April, 2006.