O'Neill School at IU Indianapolis
801 W. Michigan Street
BS 3025
Indianapolis, IN
46202
Biography
Tom Stucky joined the IUPUI criminal justice faculty in 2004 after spending three years on the criminal justice faculty at IPFW. Dr. Stucky recently completed research examining factors associated with incarceration for a cohort of low-level offenders entering the Indiana Department of Correction and was the principal investigator for the Indianapolis Comprehensive Anti-Gang Initiative research partnership, which was a $2.5 million grant to reduce gang crime in Indianapolis. He also provided research consultation to the Indianapolis Mayor’s Task Force on Violent Crime, working with former IUPUI chancellor Gerald Bepko. Prior to his graduate studies, Dr. Stucky served as an Undercover Enforcement Agent in the Ohio Department of Liquor Control.
Education
- Ph.D., Sociology, University of Iowa, 2001
- M.A., Sociology, University of Iowa, 1997
- B.A., Sociology and Psychology, Ohio University, 1991
Professional Experience
- Executive Associate Dean, O’Neill IUPUI, 2017–2021
- Director of Faculty Development and Online Initiatives, 2015–2017
- Director of Criminal Justice and Public Safety programs, 2009–2015
- Interim Director Center for Criminal Justice Research, 2009–2010
- Criminal Justice Program Coordinator at Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne, 2001–2004
Highlights
- Member Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Crisis Intervention Team Steering Committee
- Research Partner Indiana Project Safe Neighborhoods (2008–2012)
- Research Partner Indianapolis Comprehensive Anti-Gang Initiative (2008–2012)
- SPEA Outstanding Full-time Graduate Instructor (2009, 2012)
- Indiana University Trustees’ Teaching Award (2007, 2009)
Selected Intellectual Contributions
- "Intra- and Inter-Neighborhood Income Inequality and Crime." (with S.B. Payton, J.R. Ottensmann) Journal of Crime and Justice (2016)
- “Registered Sex Offenders and Reported Sex Offenses.” (with J.R. Ottensmann)Crime and Delinquency (2014)
- “Crime, Politics, and Punishment: Criminological Research for Political Sociologists.” Sociology Compass (2013)
- “The Effect of Foreclosures on Crime in Indianapolis, 2003-2008.” (with J.R. Ottensmann, S.B. Payton) Social Science Quarterly (2012)
- “The Conditional Effects of Race and Politics on Social Control: Black Violent Crime Arrests in Large Cities, 1970-1990.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (2011)