Selected Research

For a complete list of publications, please see my CV or Google Scholar profile.

Local Government Spending: Policing Versus Social Services

Annual Review of Criminology, 2025

Do Austerity Cuts Spare Police Budgets? Welfare-to-Carceral Realignment During Fiscal Crises

Criminology, 2024 (lead article)

Policing Gentrification: Stops and Low-Level Arrests during Demographic Change and Real Estate Reinvestment

City & Community, 2020

Governing Through Police? Housing Market Reliance, Welfare Retrenchment, and Police Budgeting in an Era of Declining Crime

Social Forces, 2018 (with Adam Goldstein)

Policing, Punishment, and Place: Spatial-Contextual Analyses of the Criminal Legal System

Annual Review of Sociology, 2023 (with Jessica Simes and John Eason)