O’Neill Associate Professor and Director of O’Neill’s Criminal Justice and Public Safety program Dena Carson is being honored for her work understanding youth gangs and youth violence. Carson was one of eight IUPUI faculty members recognized by the university as 2023 Research Frontiers Trailblazers. The Trailblazer Award honors IUPUI associate professors who have made exceptional… Read more »
Monroe County, Indiana, has been at the forefront of justice system change when it comes to piloting new programs in the state. “We were one of the first to do drug treatment courts, we were one of the first few mental health courts, we were one of the pilot counties for pretrial release program,” recalls… Read more »
From his home base in Indianapolis, O’Neill Assistant Professor Nathan Cook is working on projects from around the world, specifically in what is known as the Global South—what some call the developing world. In countries throughout Asia, Africa, and Latin America, Cook looks at common-pool resources—things like groundwater basins, shared irrigation systems, rainforests, and other… Read more »
When disaster strikes, a community’s resilience is put to the test. Whether the cause is natural, political, man-made, or technological, Courtney Page-Tan works to understand how communities can withstand, recover from, and even thrive amid and after disasters. Her interest in community resilience can be traced back to a single moment, one the entire world… Read more »
Vernise Estorcien is a long way from her hometown of Nassau, The Bahamas. After earning her Ph.D. in Florida, she’s now even farther north—1,138 miles from home, to be exact—and will join the O’Neill School faculty for the 2023–24 academic year. Estorcien says she came to the O’Neill School in Indianapolis because she knew it… Read more »
