His work grapples with the character and consequences of contemporary modes of regulation in a number of spheres, with a particular interest in the policing of poverty and social welfare. He is the editor of Disorderly People: Law and the Politics of Exclusion in Ontario (with Janet Mosher) and has written on police reform, homelessness and victimization, and the constitution of social assistance as crime through the regulation of “welfare fraud.” His latest work, Policing Compassion: Begging, Law and Power in Public Spaces, is forthcoming from Hart Publishing this spring.