Areas of Research/Interest: Social control; deviance; juvenile delinquency; urban communities; field research methods.
Fellowships/Honors: Honorable Mention C. Wright Mills Award for Honor and the American Dream (1984); C.H. Cooley Award for Teen Mothers (1995); Burrows Graduate Educator Award (1997).
Select Publications:
Teen Mothers: Citizens or Dependents? University of Chicago Press. 1995.
Street Kids, Street Drugs, Street Crime: An Examination of Drug Use and Serious Delinquency in Miami, with J.A. Inciardi and A.E. Pottieger. Wadsworth. 1992.
Honor and the American Dream: Culture and Identity in a Chicano Community. Rutgers University Press. 1983.