Department/College/UnitSocial Sciences Division

TitleResearch Associate

AffiliationFaculty

Web SiteProfessional

Primary Office LocationRachel Carson College Academic Building
Rachel Carson College Academic Building, 235

Mail StopRachel Carson College Faculty Services

Biography, Education and Training

• Research Associate and Lecturer at UCSC 
• Professor Emeritus of Sociology, George Washington University 
• BA, Sociology, UC Santa Cruz
• Phd, Sociology, UC Berkeley 
• Expertise in criminology, gender, urban sociology, qualitative research methods
• Current research: sex work, sex tourism, police-community relations, human trafficking
• Books include: Transforming Settler States (1990), Policing Under Fire (1995), Race and Policing in America (2006), Legalizing Prostitution (2012), Sex For Sale, edited (2000, 2010, 2023), and Sex Tourism in Thailand (2023)

Research Interests

Criminology; sex work; race & policing; human trafficking

Awards, Honors and Grants

Sex Tourism in Thailand: Inside Asia's Premier Erotic Playground (NYU Press, 2023)

https://nyupress.org/9781479813407/sex-tourism-in-thailand/

OUTSTANDING BOOK AWARD  HONORABLE MENTION

Division of International Criminology

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY, 2024