Urban

• How do house price fluctuations impact local government budgets?
• How does crime and provision of local services change across a state or a metropolitan area?
• What are the influences of land use policies on criminal activity?  
• Do traffic patterns divert crime? 

Geospatial

• How are geospatial boundaries defined in social interactions?
• Why might land use restrictions or taxation authorities change such boundaries?
  
• How might we pick up different incentives between government officials and private citizen?
• How do all of these things relate to knowledge, services, or a sense of place?

Screening/signaling

• Does certain criminal activity (i.e. by type or repeat offense) follow a meaningful pattern over time/space?
• How do institutions screen away or encourage the likelihood of cooperation from a victim?
  
• Are some geographic areas more prone to or complacent with certain types crimes (i.e., an old shipyard with a tall fence and watch dogs doesn't care about crime on the outside)?  
• In what ways are law enforcers improving their services?  Are they credible signals to criminals?

 Public Ethics

• Should public (safety) employees be allowed to collectively bargain under federal or state legislation?
• Is it fair to label people as "sexual predators" after they have served their sentence while murderers, robbers, and white-collar frauds walk away free?

Latin American development

• If corrupt institutions matter, how can we stimulate economic progress and change from within a country?
  
• What is the proper way to combine institutional, political, and social situations when negotiating free-trade agreements and what kinds of punishments are enforceable?

This site also has a page for research and analysis (both current and previous).