Research Projects

Descriptions of my current major research projects.

Cross-National Crime:

• Crime and Punishment around the World
• Social Change and Crime in Post-Communist Societies
• Regime Change and Manifestations of Violence in Post-Communist Societies
• Revisiting Nations Not Obsessed with Crime

Informatics:

• Geomasking Strategies for Crime Data (with Dr. Piyusha Singh and Jing Liu)
• The Spatial and Informational Regulation of Sex Offenders in the Community (with Kelly Socia)
• Using NIBRS to Understand Financial Exploitation of the Elderly (with Jeanna Mastrocinque)
• The Importance of Data Visualization in Data Literacy