Meet our graduate students

Sherouk Ahmed

Graduate Student

• sherahme@iu.edu

agonism in criminal justice; comparative criminology/criminal justice; restorative justice; Islamic criminology

Katherine Inez Barrus

Graduate Student

• kbarrus@iu.edu

policing, perceptions of police legitimacy, victim and witness cooperation with police, African American English

Carmen Diaz

Graduate Student

• cldiaz@iu.edu

racial, ethnic, and class-based inequalities in the criminal justice system; prosecutorial discretion; the pretrial period; community supervision experiences                                                                               

Mitchell Farrell

Graduate Student

• mitafarr@iu.edu

general adolescent delinquency; technology mediated delinquency; criminological theory; quantitative methodology; moral norms and criminal/deviant behavior; legal financial obligations and impacts on probation/parole; police response to homelessness

Tyeisha Fordham

Graduate Student

• ttfordha@iu.edu

restorative justice; re-entry; juvenile justice; constitutional reformation and its relevance to our criminal justice system; racial injustice and the effects of racism on our criminal justice system, restorative justice

Jack Haring

Graduate Student

• jhharing@iu.edu

white-collar crime; corporate crime; economics and crime

Chase Heslop

Graduate Student

• cheslop@iu.edu

legitimacy, program creation, criminal justice education

Chandlier Hulse

Graduate Student

• cdiven@iu.edu

distance decay; crime and geography; policing strategies; police use of social media; policing people experiencing homelessness

Abby Judge

Graduate Student

• aejudge@iu.edu

discretion in the legal system; constitutional law or criminal rights and liberties; authoritarianism; queer criminology

Danielle LaPradd

Graduate Student

• dlapradd@iu.edu

 policing, police investigations, violent crime, spatial criminology

Charlotte Lee

Graduate Student

• leechg@iu.edu

criminalization of disability, especially in the context of juvenile delinquency and educational institutions

Yucen Lin

Graduate Student

• yl185@iu.edu

monetary sanctions or legal financial obligations; restorative justice 

Jillian Mitchell

Graduate Student

• jillmitc@iu.edu

restorative justice; corrections; re-entry and recidivism; queer criminology

Maja Mladineo

Graduate Student

• mamladi@iu.edu

mental health, rehabilitation, and treatment of justice-involved individuals; substance abuse; re-entry; comparative criminal justice

Megan Novak

Graduate Student

• megnovak@iu.edu

qualitative research methods; white-collar and corporate crime; victimology; restorative justice; environmental justice

Abby Novotny

Graduate Student

• arnovotn@iu.edu

psychology and the law; restorative justice; legislation; social organization; perceptions of crime; infrastructure and its influence on crime 

Heather Pasku

Graduate Student

• hpasku@iu.edu

housing access; corrections; gender and crime; re-entry and recidivism; qualitative methods

Allison Pierce

Graduate Student

• pierceab@iu.edu

juvenile status and delinquency offending; violent interactions; firearm violence; social network analysis of NIBIN lead involved cases

Kelsie Powell

Graduate Student

• kelpowe@iu.edu

child and adolescent development; juvenile delinquency; community-based alternatives to incarceration; school punishment and adolescent identity formation 

Amber Richey

Graduate Student

• amberich@iu.edu

power; culture; organizations; corruption; recruitment and retention; political crime; military sexual assault; qualitative methods 

Hannah Ridner

Graduate Student

• hrridner@iu.edu

public and environmental health; housing; crime and place; opioid epidemic and HIV; rural areas; court programs; GIS and spatial analysis

Yeon Seong Song

Graduate Student

• songyeon@iu.edu

criminological theories; juvenile delinquency; hate crimes; restorative and retributive justice 

Dylan Stoltz

Graduate Student

• dcstoltz@iu.edu

crime and media; race and the perception of crime; intersectionality within the criminal justice system; restorative justice

Leo Yang

Graduate Student

• leoyang@iu.edu

cybercrime and the dynamic interplay between technology development and criminal/deviant activities