Scholarship
Crime Prevention
Believing that changing individuals or encouraging them to conform to societal standards is complex and not within the preview of governments, I often focus on preventing crime before it occurs. Utilizing the Routine Activities Approach, Situational Crime Prevention, and Environmental Criminology, I ask how we can stop the crime before it happens? This effort often considers how the Built Environment and Private Security can be applied to avoid crime.
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Field Studies in Environmental Criminology. Routledge
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"Examining Public Willingness-to-pay for Burglary Prevention." Crime Prevention and Community Safety.
Police Operations, Administration,
& Use of Force
As a former practitioner, I have a unique perspective on policing, which influences my research questions and methods. I have published several papers on police use of force issues served as an expert witness for management and staffing issues in a sheriff’s department, and have current research focused on hiring practices.
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Police Behavior, Hiring, and Crime Fighting: An International View. Routledge.
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"Not Just a Walk in the Woods? Exploring the Impact of Individual Characteristics and Changing Job Roles on Stress among Conversation Officers." Police Practice & Research.
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"Reasons and Barriers for Choosing Police Careers." Policing: An International Journal.
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"A National Examination of the Effect of Education, Training, and Pre-Employment Screening on Law Enforcement Use of Force." Justice Policy Journal.
Emerging Crimes
For years, complex and challenging questions and problems with few available resources (data) and little academic understanding have been a strong interest. Carrying this into academia, I began asking hard questions about crimes that police, victims, and government leaders grapple with. This interest led me to what I call ‘emerging crimes.’ The nature of Emerging Crimes includes; a dramatic rise in occurrence, changes in complexity, are poorly defined, have little data, or has never been thoroughly researched. Topics include; Package Theft, Crime in the Sharing Economy, Pet Theft, Deep Fakes, Crime during COVID, Metal Theft, and more.
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"Crime Rates in a Pandemic: The Largest Criminological Experiment in History" American Journal of Criminal Justice.
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"Crime Sharing: How the Sharing Economy may Impact Crime Victims" Victims & Offenders
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"A First Look at Pet Theft" (forthcoming)
