As of August 2011 I have joined the faculty of the Department of Sociology at the University of Kentucky, after spending the last few years at the University at Albany School of Criminal Justice.
I am a sociologist specializing in global criminology, political sociology, and quantitative methods. My primary research agenda addresses why countries vary in their levels and types of crime, how we can best measure that variation, and how we can advance criminological theories to account for macro-level crime differences. I am especially interested in how political regime changes can contribute to or alleviate social disorder problems, such as crime. Most of my research to date has examined how democratization and marketization have affected crime rates in post-communist Eastern Europe.
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