She is the author of Unwanted: Muslim Immigrants, Dignity and Drug Dealing (Oxford University Press, 2014) and co-editor (with Tonry, M.) of The Oxford Handbook on Race, Ethnicity, Immigration, and Crime (Oxford University Press, 2014). Her research and teaching interests fall in the areas of resilience and risk to radicalization, immigration and crime, social exclusion and marginalization, neighbourhood restructuring, youth gangs/groups, and ethnography and qualitative methods.