2014. “Undocumented Immigrant Threat and Popular Support for Social Controls” Social Problems 61: 673-692.
2012. “Sometimes Ignorance is Bliss: Investigating Citizen Perceptions of the Certainty and Severity of Punishment” American Journal of Criminal Justice.
2012. “Reconsidering the Relationship Between Perceived Neighborhood Racial Composition and Whites’ Perceptions of Victimization Risk: Does Racial Typification of Crime Matter?” Criminology.
2006. “Exploring State-Level Variation in Juvenile Incarceration Rates: Symbolic Threats and Competing Explanations” The Prison Journal.
2005. “Race, Ethnicity, Threat, and the Labeling of Convicted Felons” Criminology.
2001. “Perceived Racial and Ethnic Composition of Neighborhood and Perceived Risk of Crime” Social Problems.