Research and teaching interests include Hate Crimes, Corporate Crime, White Supremacy, Racialist, and Anti-Government Organizations, Sociology of Law, The Internet, Qualitative Methodology, and Community Corrections.
Research consists of studies on wildlife law violators and game wardens.
He has also written and published papers that deal with inequities associated with recreational sport hunting on private property as well as sociological factors that influenced the passage of a controversial ballot initiative dealing with wildlife management issues in Utah. Director of the Institute for Correctional Research and Training. He is currently conducting research on attitudes toward homosexuality and sexual behavior in prison. His research interests also include serial killers, criminological theory, and sexual deviance.