Dr. Melissa J. Stacer, PhD

Dr. Melissa Stacer is a Professor of Criminal Justice and Director of the Master of Arts in Criminal Justice (MACJ) at the University of Southern Indiana. Her teaching and research interests are in the area of corrections, specifically institutional corrections (jails and prisons). Additional research interests are in justice-involved veterans, prison culture, prisoner misconduct, reentry, collateral consequences of incarceration, and criminal justice education. Dr. Stacer teaches courses on corrections, prisons, death penalty, the effects of incarceration, community corrections, and criminological theory. She also teaches graduate courses in the Master of Arts in Criminal Justice program, including research methods, a seminar on corrections, ethics in criminal justice, criminal justice policy and practice, and statistics. Dr. Stacer is currently the President of the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences. 

Professional Organizations

American Society of Criminology

Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences

Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences

Midwestern Criminal Justice Association