His research interests include the relationship between government actions and subsequent terrorism, criminological theory, policing, and crime prevention. Dr. Fisher specializes in empirically testing the predictions of criminological theory to better inform government policies that aim to reduce crime using econometric methods and qualitative approaches. Dr. Fisher has previously worked as a researcher for the Sydney Institute of Criminology (University of Sydney), the National Centre in HIV Social Research (University of New South Wales), and for the North Carolina Racial Justice Act Project (Michigan State University).