He maintains an active research agenda whose theme is the role of law enforcement in crime prevention and order maintenance. He seeks to unravel the current state of law enforcement and the challenges that law enforcement officials face from day to day, and how those challenges impact their efforts at crime prevention and order maintenance. Prof. Mbuba served on a 3-month Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship to University of Embu in Kenya, where he helped to develop a baccalaureate curriculum in criminology and security management.