She specializes in the area of youth violence, restorative justice and community-based responses to marginalized youth. Her recent research focuses have focused on community-based crime prevention programs, sustainable crime prevention, youth homicide, youth gangs, auto theft, and substance use treatment services. She has been involved as an advisor to programs on Peacemaking for YOUCAN, a not-for-profit group training youth for youth-led initiatives in non-violent conflict resolution and violence prevention, both nationally and internationally and for the United Nations Association in Canada on a number of projects focused on youth and health.