Tacit Skills and Mentoring: A Combined Quantitative and Qualitative Comparative Research of Doctoral Science Training Regimes

The Impact of Health Insurance on Crossing the Border for Medical Services: The Case of Laredo, Texas.

How do ICTs Affect Life Science Education in Japan

Learning tacit knowledge in life science graduate programs in Taiwan.

Salvation City: Halfway House Stories

Border issues, Community & Urban Sociology, Violence, Sociology of Education, Health

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