You can explore Dr. Carlie's online book on
gangs entitled:
Into the
Abyss:
A Personal Journey into the World of Street Gangs
Dr. Carlie,
author of Into the Abyss: A Personal Journey into the World of Street
Gangs, is a native
of St. Louis, Missouri, where he graduated from
University City High School in 1962. He completed his Bachelor of
Arts and Master of Arts (both in sociology) at the
University
of Missouri in Columbia and completed a Ph.D. in sociology from
Washington
University in St. Louis
in 1970.
The title of
Dr. Carlie's M.A. thesis
was "Life Satisfaction
Among Elderly Rural Missourians" and his doctoral dissertation
was entitled "Crime in the Later Years of Life."
He specialized in social gerontology at the
graduate level.
Dr. Carlie was
invited to join the faculty at Missouri State
in 1986 in order to create an academic program of study in the field of
criminal justice. Prior to
that time he was instrumental in creating and building the criminal
justice programs at Ball State University
(Muncie, Indiana) and at the
University
of Missouri - St. Louis.
One year after his arrival at Missouri
State, in 1987, the new minor in Criminal Justice Studies program at
Missouri State
was officially begun. Dr. Carlie
coordinated the program for the next ten years before resigning to focus
on teaching and research. The
name of the program has been changed to "Criminology" and now includes
the new non- comprehensive
major,
and online Masters and an in-class Masters.
In 2008 the old comprehensive major in Criminology started being
phased out.
In the area of public
service, Dr. Carlie was a member of the United States Department of
Justice's Criminal Justice Planning Agency, served as a consultant to the
Departments of Correction in
Missouri
and Indiana, and was
President of the Board for a group of half-way homes for delinquent
youth. He continues
his public service as an active member of the
Task Force on Gangs and Youth Violence and as a member of
the
Springfield
Advocates for Youth serving three residential treatment centers
(group homes) for
at-risk children in southwest Missouri. In 2007, Dr. Carlie was named to the Greene
County Sheriff's Oversight Committee overseeing both the law enforcement and
corrections (jail) aspects of that agency.
In addition to
Into the Abyss: A Personal Journey into the World of Street
Gangs (free and complete on the Internet), Dr. Carlie has
published a variety of articles in professional journals since 1969 and
an anthology, co-edited with Dr. Kevin I. Minor (University of Eastern
Kentucky),
Prisons
Around the World (1992).
While
he is a generalist in the field of criminology, he has a special
interest in prisons, law enforcement, and youth crime - particularly
street gangs.
From 1998 through
2006 Dr. Carlie spent the greater part of his time studying street gangs
in Los Angles, San Francisco, Seattle, Kansas City, St. Louis, Denver,
Las Vegas, and in small communities throughout the United States.
His research also extended to England (with Scotland Yard in
London), Amsterdam, and to Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada.
During that time, Dr.
Carlie rode with police gang units interviewing the officers and their
command personnel. He
interviewed gang members as well as their parents, teachers, counselors,
and probation and parole officers.
School administrators, leaders in the faith community, and
personnel in community-based prevention/treatment programs were also
studied. His field research continued into 2005
learning more about gangs with the Charlotte, NC, and Gainesville, FL,
police departments.
Dr. Carlie
teaches
or has taught
CRM
210 (An Introduction to the American Criminal Justice System),
CRM 301 (Crime and the
Media), CRM 302 (Reforming
America's Prisons), CRM 303
(Capital Punishment),
CRM
320 (The Causes of Delinquency and Crime),
CRM
350 (The Police in American Society),
CRM
480 (The Gang Phenomenon) and CRM 498
(Senior Seminar).
In 2005, Dr. Carlie received the University Service
Award from Missouri State. In 2004, he received the Excellence in
Advising Award from Missouri State University and the national
award for Excellence in Academic Advising from the National Academic
Advising Association.
In 2004, he also was the recipient of
the Missouri State University
Foundation award for Teaching Excellence and received the
Missouri Governor's award for Teaching Excellence.
In 2003,
he received the Excellence in Online Instruction Award from the Missouri
State University Graduate
College.
