Sherouk Ahmed

Graduate student

• sherahme@indiana.edu

Research Interests
law and society; comparative criminology/CJ; victimology; restorative justice; Islamic criminology; policing; race; philosophy of punishment

Kayla Allison, M.A.

Graduate student

• knalliso@indiana.edu

Research Interests:  the intersection of gender, race, class, and crime, bias crime, and communities and crime.

Chad Brown

Graduate student

• cb38@indiana.edu

Research Interests
corrections policy; re-entry and recidivism; substance abuse; behavioral and mental health of repeat offenders; homelessness and the justice system

Caitlin Ducate

Graduate student

• csducate@indiana.edu

Research Interests                                                                                         Sexual and intimate partner violence; intersectionality and crime; theories of crime; quantitative methods

Joshua Ellsworth

Graduate student

• jtellswo@indiana.edu

Research Interests
violent crime; criminal investigative policy and practices; history of violent crime and policing; comparative historical research; qualitative research methods

Mitchell Farrell, M.A.

Graduate Student

• mitafarr@iu.edu

Mia Gilliam

Graduate student

• miagilli@indiana.edu

John Gonsler

Graduate student

• jgonsler@indiana.edu

Research Interests
serial killers; terrorism; sex offenders; victimology; violence; deception

Ashley Hemsath

Graduate student

• ahemsath@indiana.edu

Research Interests
victimology; violent crime; vigilantism; feminist theory

Brittany J. Hood, M.S.

Graduate student

• bjhood@indiana.edu

Research Interests
mental health in the criminal justice system; recidivism in specialty courts; psychology of criminal behavior; diversion programs; program evaluation; qualitative methods

Katherine Inez Barrus

Graduate student

• kbarrus@indiana.edu

Research Interests
Policing, African American English, and Perceived Criminality

Sun Ho (Steve) Kim

Graduate student

• kimsunh@indiana.edu

Research Interests
criminal profiling; psychology of criminal behavior; corruption in public administrators; police misconduct

Michael Match

Graduate student

• micmatch@indiana.edu

Research Interests
sentencing; corrections; comparative criminal justice; capital punishment

Jessica Meckes

Graduate student

• jmeckes@indiana.edu

Research Interests
social network analysis and violence trends; theories of crime; corrections; visual/media representations of crime; torture

Mike Mitchell

Graduate Student

• mitchmia@iu.edu

Research Interests
police community relations, biosocial behavior in juveniles, post conviction / community re-entry of offenders, police culture within departments

Maja Mladineo

Graduate Student

• mamladi@iu.edu

Megan Novak

Graduate student

• megnovak@indiana.edu

Research Interests                                                                                             corporate crime; environmental offenses; victimology; qualitative methods; restorative justice

Heather Pasku

Graduate Student

• hpasku@iu.edu

Jessica Peterson

Graduate student

• petejess@indiana.edu

Research Interests
policing and police organization; public perception of police; social psychology of criminal behavior, juvenile delinquencey and policy, qualitative methods, rural criminology

Allison Pierce

Graduate Student

• pierceab@iu.edu

Laura L. Roush, M.S.

Graduate student

• llroush@indiana.edu

Research Interests
domestic violence; drug abuse; juvenile justice; gangs; sexual offenders; crime in the media; police corruption

D. Jackson Sargent, M.P. A.

Graduate student

• dsargen@indiana.edu

Research Interests
homeland security; terrorism; comparative criminal justice systems; public policy

Summer Shuford

Graduate student

• sshufor@indiana.edu

Research Interests
restorative justice; prison programming; re-entry; juvenile offenders; gender and crime; policing; military crime

Holly J. Sims

Graduate student

• hojosims@indiana.edu

Research Interests
deconstruction of the criminal self; how conceptions of race and gender impact the distinction between criminals and non-criminals

Jessica R. Swanson, M.S.

Graduate student

• jesrswan@indiana.edu

Research Interests
juvenile delinquency; police image and public perception; social media and juvenile behavior; communities and policing; child abuse and violence; immigration and public policy

Leo Yang

Graduate student

• leoyang@indiana.edu

Research Interests
psychology of criminal behavior; lie detection; cyber crime