Her research interests include Critical Criminology, Chicana feminism/Gender/Women’s studies, Mexican American/Border Studies, Organized Crime and Social Justice. She is the co-author of On the Edge of Law: Culture, Labor and Deviance on the South Texas Border (2007) and author of the textbook Gender, Crime & Justice: Critical and Feminist Perspectives (2015). Most recently she co-authored “Apache Resistance, 1849-1886” in 50 Events that Shaped American Indian History: An Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic and “Mestiza/o Discourse: Soldaderas in the Corridos of the Mexican Revolution” for the Journal of South Texas. Currently she is working on various projects including a documentary on colonialism, imperialism and indigenous resistance on the U.S./Mexico border.