Carrie S. Mier

Program Director/Coordinator, Criminal Justice Program
Associate Professor of Criminal Justice
Tom Raper Hall 356
(765) 973-8544
cwarstle@iue.edu

Education

• Ph.D. – Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
• M.S. – Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
• B.S. – Public Affairs with a concentration in Criminal Justice, Indiana-Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN

Current Research Interests

Drug trends and issues at national, state, and local levels; risk/resilience/protection to drugs and violence/victimization; scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) with a focus on community engagement

Current Teaching Interests

Drug/addictions training, education and awareness; community engagement/community-engaged pedagogy; criminal justice education/criminal justice curriculum

Recent Publications and Scholarly Work

• Ladny, R. T., & Mier, C. (2023). Leadership in Violence. Encyclopedia of Leadership. Sage Publications, Inc.
• Mier, C. (2018). Adventures in Advising: Strategies, Situations, and Solutions to Student Problems in Criminology and Criminal Justice. International Journal of Progressive Education, 14(1), 21-31.
• Mier, C., & Ladny, R.T. (2018). Does Self-Esteem Negatively Impact Crime and Delinquency? A Meta-Analytic Review of 25 Years of Evidence. Deviant Behavior, 39(8), 1006-1022.¹

¹Published additionally as a blog post for PsyPost titled “Study: high self-esteem linked to reduced likelihood of crime and delinquency.” Website: https://www.psypost.org/2018/06/study-high-self-esteem-linked-reduced-likelihood-crime-delinquency-51608

Recent Presentations

• Mier, C.S. & Ladny, R.T. “Do no harm: Using the trauma-informed perspective in addressing criminogenic community problems.” Presented at 2022 Annual Conference of the American Society of Criminology in Atlanta, GA.
• Mier, C.S. “Decisions, decisions: Illustrating active learning of difficult theoretical concepts through games.” Presented at Teach, Play, Learn conference 2022 in Kokomo, IN.
• Mier, C.S., Whitehead, S.N, & Kim, D.Y. “TILTing the criminal justice curriculum.” Presented at the SACAI Academy 2021 summer retreat in Indianapolis, IN
• Mier, C. “Virtual service learning during the time of Covid-19: The good, the bad, and the ugly.” Presented in Spring 2021 for the Chancellor’s Community Engagement Course Development Grant recipients at Indiana University East.

Awards

• Summer 2023. Selected for the CEA Faculty Fellowship cohort of 2023-2024 for community engaged service and research.
• Fall 2022. Nominated and recognized as HSS Outstanding Community Partner.
• Spring 2022. Recognized as an Emergent Leader in Community Engagement by Indiana Campus Compact/Community Engaged Alliance.
• Spring 2022. Accepted to FACET