Salvation City: Halfway House Stories. - Cambria/Teneo 2011
Serial Rape - Serial Offenders: Theory & Practice 2010
Review of Legacies of Crime: A Follow-Up of the Children of Highly delinquent Girls and Boys - The Southwest Journal of Criminal Justice 2010
The Weed and Seed Initiative and Police Activity Within Communities. - Taylor & Francis 2012
Family and Social Influences on Violent Crime - Violent Crime: Clinical and Social Implications 2010
Suicidality and Spheres of Social Integration among U.S. Hispanic Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Drug Use. - Social Problems
Finding the Filter: Support is Not Judgmental.
The Impact of Halfway Houses on Parole Success and Recidivism - Journal of Sociological Research 2015
A Paper Tiger on Chestnut Lane: The Significance of NIMBY Battles in Decaying Communities. - Urbanities 2014
) Research Productivity of East Asian Scientists: Does Cosmopolitanism in Professional Networking, Research Collaboration, and Scientific Conference Attendance Matter? - Asia Pacific Social Science Review Journal 2013
Are Minority Areas Disproportionately Targeted for Halfway House Placement? - Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice 2013
Is Fear of Crime Splitting the Sister Cities? The Case of Los Dos Laredos. - Cities 2013
Publication Productivity in High Impact Journals: Does Cosmopolitanism in Professional Networking, Research Collaborating, and Scientific Conferencing Matter? - ? Asia Pacific Social Science Review 2013
The Spatial Dynamics of Legal Handgun Concealment. - Crime Mapping 2013
“Do cell phones, iPods/MP3 players, siblings and friends matter? Predictors of child body mass in a U.S. Southern Border City Middle School.” - Obesity Research & Clinical Practice 2012
Policing Terror Threats and False Positives: Employing a Signal Detection Model to Examine Changes in national and Local Policing Strategy between 2001-2007 - Security Journal 2009
“Do cell phones, iPods/MP3 players, siblings and friends matter? Predictors of child body mass in a U.S. Southern Border City Middle School.” - Obesity Research & Clinical Practice 2012
Graduate science mentoring practices, and aspects of mentor-mentee interaction learning from Japan, Singapore and Taiwan. - The FASEB Journal 2011
Boom to Bust or Bust to Boom?: Following the Effects of Weed and Seed Zoning in New Britain, Connecticut from 1995-2000. - Police Quarterly 2010
Much Ado About Nothing: The Misestimation and Overinterpretation of Violent Video Game Effects in Eastern and Western Nations - Psychological Bulletin 2010
Reply to Zimmerman & Strasburger - Journal of Pediatrics 2010
Symbolic Security - Greenwood Press 2009
A Test of the Grapevine: An Empirical Examination of Conspiracy Theories Among African-Americans - Sociological Spectrum 1999
Magill’s Review of Books Essays (see details below)
Diversity - Houghton Mifflin 1999
Dilemmas of Service Delivery and Organizational Structure in a Growing Voluntary Organization - Journal of Applied Sociology 1998
Private and Collective Protection in Urban Areas - Urban Affairs Review 1998
Ceremonial Exchange and Moral Order: Three Ritual Paradigms at Mardi Gras - Social Forces 1996
Network Effects in Caregiver to Care-Recipient Violence: A study of Caregivers to Relations with Dementia - Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect 1996
A Parish Profile of the David Duke Vote: Sociodemographic, Economic, and Voting Propensity Predictors - Vanderbilt University Press. 1995
Review of Current Controversies on Family Violence - Journal of Marriage and the Family 1995
Neighborhood Security: Crime and Preventive Measures in One Community
Assessing Healthcare Careers in Laredo through a Study on Local Healthcare Education Needs
The Public Health Risks of Media Violence: A Meta-Analytic Review - Pediatrics 2009
“Car Manufacturer John Delorean is Arrested in Drug Sting.” and “Former Lousiana Governor Edwin Edwards is Sentenced to Ten Years in Federal Prison.” - Salem Press 2009
Brief articles on “Ray Kroc” and “John D. - Salem Press 2008
brief articles on “Billy Cannon” (vol. 1 pp. 173-4) “John DeLorean” (vol.1 pp.272-4)“Antoinette Frank” (vol.1 pp. 373-4) “Martin Frankel” (vol. 1 pp. 376-7) “Leander Perez” (vol. 2 pp. 819-820) “Carl Weiss” (vol. 3 pp. 1095-6) - Salem Press 2007
Review of Modeling Life: Art Models Speak About Nudity, Sexuality, and the Creative Process - Contemporary Sociology 2007
The Effectiveness of School-Based Anti-Bullying Programs: A Meta-Analytic Review - Criminal Justice Review 2007
Symbolic Security, Moral Panic and Public Sentiment: Toward a Sociology of Counterterrorism - Journal of Social and Ecological Boundaries 2006
“Community Service (as punishment for crime).” (pp. 187-8) “Halfway Houses.” (pp. 496-497) “National Crime Victimization Survey.” (pp. 725-6) “Presentence Investigation.” (pp. 834-5) - Salem Press 2005
Circling the Welcome Wagons: Area, Income, Race and Legal Handgun Concealment - Criminal Justice Review 2004
Review of A Troubled Dream: The Promise and Failure of School Desegregation in Louisiana - In City and Community 2003
White Collar-Crime - Grolier’s Encyclopedia of American Studies online edition 2003
Crime - Grolier 2001
Federal Bureau of Investigation - Grolier 2001
National Rifle Association - Grolier 2001
Police - Grolier 2001
Women’s Suffrage - Grolier 2001
The Paradox of Neighborhood Association Existence and Membership - Research in Community Sociology 2000
Urban Plunge Course - The Urbane Community 2000
Counterterrorism - Jones and Bartlett 2009
Student alcohol consumption and academic success
Student drinking habits, curriculum infusion and social marketing
Research Grant for The New England Probation Officer Study
curriculum development grant for course on Violence Prevention and Intervention
funds for Conversations in the Discipline
participation in qualitative fieldwork methods workshop at the University of Georgia
TAMIU/Webb County VISTA program for Economic Development
Extramural Associates Research Development Award
FEMA Training: Integrating Emergency Management in Your Institution.
Transmission of Tacit Skills in East Asian graduate Science Programs
Supplement: MOD-Transmission of Tacit Skills in East Asian Graduate Sceince Programs
Main: MOD-Transmission of Tacit Skills in East Asian Graduate Science Programs
Academic Fellow - Foundation for the Defense of Democracy
Laredo/Webb County Workforce Needs Assessment
Criminal Justice First Responder Training
Community Awareness Training and Transboundary Risk Identification and Mitigation
Responses to Hurricane Katrina
Project Protect Pilot in Laredo
Summer Curriculum Research Grant for Advanced Research Methods
PKP Love of Learning Award - Phi Kappa Phi - 11-01-2017
Academic Fellow - Foundation for the Defense of Democracies - 03-01-2011
Served as Board Secretary 2009-2010. Worked on various data analysis projects including Re-Accreditation.
I regularly lecture on topics related to Leadership Development for small audiences of 8-11th graders.
President of the Board of Directors