He serves as Principal Investigator of the Product Counterfeiting Database (PCD) and is a Research Affiliate of the Research Foundation of the City University of New York, the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, the National White-Collar Crime Research Consortium, and the MSU College of Law. His research focuses primarily on emerging areas of crime and justice, particularly those involving transnational criminal enterprises and networks, including fraud, product counterfeiting, extremist financial crime, and environmental/conservation crime.