Denise Mowder
Degree: Ph.D., J.D.
Professor
Department: Criminal Justice and Criminology
- Phone: 303-615-0903
- Email: [email protected]
Topics
Criminal Justice/Criminology Immigration LawExpertise
- Trial practice
- Investigations
- Victim advocacy
About
Denise Mowder, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Metropolitan State University of Denver where she currently teaches classes in criminal justice ethics and victimology. Mowder has worked as an attorney and for more than 10 years as prosecutor in Oregon, where she has prosecuted cases involving domestic violence, child abuse and sexual assault. She specializes in trail practice, investigations and victim advocacy, and her research areas involve the impact of current immigration law, undocumented battered Latina women and the wrongful conviction of factually innocent.
Mowder received her Ph.D. in criminal justice from Washington State University in 2010, her J.D. from Willamette College of Law in 1994 and her bachelor’s from the University of Colorado Denver.
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