"Public views of illegal immigration policy and control strategies: A test of the core hypotheses. (Forthcoming with Marc Swatt and Patti Ross Salinas) in the Journal of Criminal Justice.
"Media violence effects." (Forthcoming with Steve Wilson) in Encyclopedia of Criminological Theory, edited by F.T. Cullen and P. Wilcox. Sage.
"Public support for punishment and progressive policy preferences: The role of symbolic racism and negative racial stereotype." (Forthcoming with Steve Wilson and Patti Ross Salinas) in the American Journal of Criminal Justice.
"The quantitative/qualitative divide revisited: A study of published research, doctoral program curricula, and journal editor perceptions." (2008) in the Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 19 (3), 383-403.
"Mass media and crime and justice." (Forthcoming with Patti Ross Salinas) in 21st Century Criminology: A Reference Handbook, edited by J.M. Miller. Sage.
"Racial differences in public support for the death penalty: Can racist sentiment and core values explain the divide?." (Forthcoming with Mario Davila and Patti Salinas) in the American Journal of Criminal Justice.
"Public opinion on illegal immigration: A test of seven core hypotheses," (2008, March) in the Journal of Crime and Justice.
"Racial and ethnic perceptions of injustice: A test of Hagan et al.'s Comparative Conflict Theory," (Forthcoming, with Jim Unnever) in the Journal of Criminal Justice.
"Perceptions of injustice revisited: A test of Hagan et al.'s Comparative Conflict Theory, (March, 2008) with Jim Unnever and Francis T. Cullen in the Journal of Crime & Justice.
"Minimizing White race-based behavior and neutralizing oppression discourse: An interpretive content analysis of Crash (2005)," (Forthcoming) in the Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture.
"Criminologists as benchwarmers: The exclusion of eggheads from crime news discourse," (2008) with Timothy Griffin and Lawrence Travis in the Southwest Journal of Criminal Justice.
"Citizen assessment of local criminal courts: Does fairness matter?" (2007) with Francis T. Cullen and James Unnever in the Journal of Criminal Justice.
"From victim to vamp in nine days: The Susan Smith child homicide case," (2007) in S. Chermak and F.Y. Bailey (Eds.), Crimes and Trials of the Century. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
"Assessing the newsworthiness of homicide events: An analysis of coverage in the Houston Chronicle," (2005) with Lawrence Travis in the Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture.