Dena Carson
Associate Professor, Director of Criminal Justice and Public Safety Management programs at Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Schools
- Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs
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Biography
Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Dena Carson joined the O’Neill School at IUPUI as an assistant professor after working as the project director for a three-year grant that focused on gang desistance. Dena also taught as an assistant research professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where she also earned her Ph.D. in 2011.
Dena’s broad research interests include youth violence and gangs. More specifically, her work focuses on the role of group processes in gangs and delinquent peer groups, gang disengagement, as well as the impact of gangs in the school setting. Her recent publications have appeared in Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, Justice Quarterly, and the Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology.
Education
- Ph.D., Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 2011
- M.A., Criminology, University of South Florida, 2007
- B.S., Chemistry, Pittsburg State University, 2003
Professional Experience
- Project Director, A Multi-method, Multi-site Study of Gang Desistance. Funded by the National Institute of Justice. Principal Investigator: Finn-Aage Esbensen, 2012-2014
- Assistant Research Professor, University of Missouri-St. Louis, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 2011-2014
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