His research interests include juvenile delinquency, convict criminology, negative sexual behavior, stigma, deviant subcultures, and racial disparities in the criminal justice system. His work has been featured in academic journals such as Crime & Delinquency, Critical Issues in Justice and Politics, Contemporary Justice Review, the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, the Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice and Criminology and books such as The Encyclopedia of Street Crime in America and Crimes of the Centuries: Notorious Crimes, Criminals, and Criminal Trials in American History.