I am an Assistant Professor at the University at Albany in the School of Criminal Justice and the Department of Informatics of the College of Computing and Information. I received my Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago in 2004.
My primary research track focuses on the relationship between large-scale social changes and subsequent social problems. I am currently working on several projects that examine how the processes of democratization and marketization have affected crime rates in post-communist Eastern Europe. I am also interested in the development of macro-level criminological theories to explain crime variation across nations and the improving cross-national crime methods.
My second research track focuses on how information technology has changed the production and consumption of information about crime and justice issues. I am especially interested in issues of information and data literacy, information privacy and security, and the ethical uses of criminal justice information.
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