Thomas D. Stucky is the interim director of the Center for Criminal Justice Research and an associate professor of Criminal Justice for the IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA). Professor Stucky earned Bachelor’s degrees in Sociology and Psychology from Ohio University in 1991, graduating with high honors. Following a few years in law enforcement, he earned his Masters of Arts in Sociology in 1998 and his Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Iowa in 2001. He then worked for three years in SPEA at Indiana University Purdue University at Fort Wayne. Since coming to IUPUI in 2004, Professor Stucky has engaged in several applied research projects with the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute, Indiana Project Safe Neighborhoods, and Indiana state and local government. He is currently serving as Principal Investigator for the Comprehensive Anti-Gang Initiative in Indianapolis. He has published several issue briefs and technical reports from these projects.

His scholarly interests are at the intersection of politics and criminal justice, specifically the relationship between politics and crime/policing at the city-level, and state-level trends in imprisonment and correctional spending. He is also interested in the continuing development of the systemic social disorganization theory, and among other things the relationship between land use, the physical environment and crime. He has authored two books, and journal articles appearing in Criminology, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, and Justice Quarterly, among others.