My research interests include: 1) Intimate-partner violence; 2) immigration, crime, and victimization; 3) women’s re-entry. For intimate violence, I explore the social context of women's experiences of and reactions to domestic abuse, with an emphasis on the social construction of gender, socioeconomic conditions, racial/ethnic relations, immigration resettlement, and domestic violence interventions and policies. My research project on immigration, crime, and victimization seeks understandings of how race/ethnicity, immigration experiences, class, and gender shape the experiences of crime and victimization. The project on women’s re-entry focuses on the social and economic consequences of incarceration as well as barriers to social integration experienced by female ex-offenders.
Articles
Parent-child conflicts, school troubles, and delinquency among immigrants, Crime and Deliquency (2009)
This study examines delinquent behavior among schoolchildren in a nationally representative sample from the United...
Getting Out of Harm’s Way: One Year Outcomes for Abused Women in a Vietnamese Immigrant Enclave (with Merry Morash, Tia Stevens, and Yan Zhang), Violence Against Women (2008)
The study identifies predictors of women's remaining entangled in abusive relationships. The sample includes 57...
Immigration, masculinity, and intimate-partner violence (with M Morash), Feminist Criminology (2008)
Data from in-depth interviews with Vietnamese immigrant women residing in the United States and both...
The Connection of U.S. Best Practices to Outcomes for Abused Vietnamese-American Women (with Merry Morash), International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (2008)
The study found patterns and types of help for the women that apparently supported leaving...
Human capital, social capital, and women's responses to domestic violence (with Merry Morandi), Criminal Justice Studies: A Critical Journal of Crime, Law and Society (2007)
Contributions to Books
The Limitations of Current Approach to Domestic Violence, It’s a Crime: Women and Justice (2006)
In this very important, timely edited volume, the authors both experts in the field confront...