Meet our graduate students

Grace Abry

Graduate Student

• gabry@iu.edu

qualitative methodology; critical criminology; mass shootings; gender and intersectionality

Katherine Inez Barrus

Graduate Student

• kbarrus@iu.edu

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

Grace Cohen

Graduate Student

• cohengra@iu.edu

theories of deviance and social control, socioeconomic stratification, criminogenic capitalism, addiction and the criminalization of mental illness, sexual violence and coercion, violent offenders

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

Jill 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 

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

Grace Simpson

Graduate Student

• gracsimp@iu.edu

critical policing studies, prison abolition, and Appalachian studies

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

Victoria Williams

Graduate Student

• viewilli@iu.edu

psychology and the law, post communist perceptions of policing, and violent crime

Leo Yang

Graduate Student

• leoyang@iu.edu

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