My research has a social justice orientation, exploring how neighborhood characteristics and institutional practices perpetuate racial, ethnic, and class disparities in policing and punishment. I utilize quantitative methods, including statistical analysis of large administrative data sets, spatial analysis and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Most of my research has focused on identifying how policing practices and geography intersect to (re)generate racially disparate outcomes. In studies analyzing neighborhood patterns of police use-of-force, my colleagues and I demonstrate that use-of-force during police stops is, in part, a product of police organizational decision-making (“Organizational practice and neighborhood context of racial inequality in police use-of-force,” Social Problems) and that the prevalence and severity of force are related to neighborhood demographic composition in unique ways (“Racial threat, social (dis)organization, and the ecology of police: Towards a macro-level understanding of police use-of-force in communities of color,” Justice Quarterly). In another published manuscript (“The geography of (un)reasonable suspicion: Rethinking causes of racial disparities in police stops,” Law & Policy), I demonstrate how the law is an often-overlooked source of racial inequities in policing. The contributions of my research have been recognized through internal and external funding, as well as awards from the American Society of Criminology, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, the Midwestern Criminal Justice Association, and the Southern Criminal Justice Association.