Carla first taught at John Jay in 2004. She has taught Sociology of Violence, Juvenile Delinquency, and Introductory Sociology. Carla received her Masters in Sociology from the New School in 1999 and is currently finishing her Ph.D. in Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her areas of research and interest are court-involved youth, particularly juveniles tried as adults, urban youth and violence, sociology of punishment, sociology of race and law, critical and cultural criminology and ethnographic methods.