He is the founding director of the Martin-Springer Institute for Teaching the Holocaust, Tolerance and Humanitarian Values. His main areas of study have been in the areas of minorities, crime, and criminal justice, and the areas of collective and interpersonal violence. His first book, Government, Citizens, and Genocide, was published by Indiana Press in 2001 and was a nominee for the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences book of the year award in 2002 as well as a Raphael Lemkin book award nominee from the International Association of Genocide Scholars Book in 2003.