Marissa Dean Hayes is an adjunct instructor of Criminal Justice and Ph.D. student at Tarleton State University. She received her Master of Science in Criminal Justice from the University of North Texas and her Bachelor of Behavioral Science in Criminal Justice and Psychology from Hardin-Simmons University. Her research interests are crimes against women, particularly crimes of violence including domestic violence and sexual victimization, and crimes of power and control in domains such as intimate relationships, administrators or executives, and systems of governance. She is particularly interested in how these dynamics operate specifically within the context of college campuses, and how crimes of both interpersonal violence and power/control are perpetrated, investigated, and reported at the personal, local, state, and federal levels, which is also her dissertation focus. She is currently part of several research projects with the goal of leading to publications, including: frequency of non-fatal strangulation in intimate partner violence events in North Texas, campus staffing relative to reported sexual assaults, and Indigenous victimization as overrepresentation of homicide victims for females. She has presented her original research at the American Society of Criminology and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and was selected as the 1^st place recipient for oral presentations, doctoral level social sciences, at the Texas A&M Systems Student Pathways Symposium.