Prior to joining UA, Grant was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Rutgers-Newark with a dual appointment between the Department of Psychology and School of Criminal Justice. Grant has previously assisted on multiple Project Safe Neighborhood initiatives. Currently, Grant is on the Executive Committee for the National Dialogues on Behavioral Health; and he is involved in a number of projects including risk based policing, enhancing the prediction of crime analysis techniques, tailoring crime analysis approaches to public health outcomes, and understanding the role the environment plays in individual level outcomes. His scholarship appears in Justice Quarterly, Journal of Criminal Justice, Deviant Behavior, and Journal of Crime and Justice.