Her areas of interest encompass gender and the criminal justice system, gender and deviance, and the effects of criminal justice policies on families. Prior to obtaining her doctorate, she worked as a substance abuse counselor, primarily with offender populations. Recent research includes work published in Women & Criminal Justice, The Prison Journal, Deviant Behavior, Journal of the Oklahoma Criminal Justice Research Consortium, Journal of Youth & Adolescence, and Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. She is active in the Division on Women and Crime of the American Society of Criminology, serving as newsletter editor since 1999. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.