Broadly, her research investigates how mass incarceration--through creating, sustaining, and exacerbating race/ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities--has emerged as a mechanism of social stratification in the United States. Her current research projects use population-based longitudinal data to investigate the time-varying and heterogeneous consequences of criminal justice contact for the health and well-being of families. Additionally, to understand how the processes underlying the intergenerational consequences of incarceration change during and after incarceration, she and a team of graduate students are conducting longitudinal in-depth interviews with fathers incarcerated in county jails and an array of their family members (including children, children's mothers, and children's grandmothers).