
Prior to joining the faculty in the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University in August of 2003, Bill Bales was the director of research with the Florida Department of Corrections since 1991 and has worked in various research capacities with the Florida Supreme Court, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, and for private research organizations. Bill earned a Ph.D. in Criminology from Florida State University in 1987 and has presented research findings at numerous juvenile justice, criminology, corrections and statistics conferences over the past twenty-five years. He has published in the areas of longitudinal outcomes among incarcerated juvenile delinquents, adult correctional program evaluations, and sentencing and has published in Criminology, Criminology and Public Policy, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, and Justice Quarterly, among other crime and policy journals.
William D. Bales, Ph.D., is a Professor at Florida State University’s College of Criminology and Criminal Justice. He has published in Criminology, Criminology & Public Policy, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, and Justice Quarterly, among other crime and policy journals.
Recent Publications
2016. “Advancing Criminology and Criminal Justice Policy” Routledge.
2015. “In Prison and Far From Home: Spatial Distance Effects on Inmate Misconduct” Crime & Delinquency. Online First.
2015. “The Implications of Sentence Length for Inmate Adjustment to Prison Life.” Journal of Criminal Justice Open Access 43:6.
2015. “The Growth in the Elderly Inmate Prison Population: The Role of Determinate Punishment Policies” Justice Research and Policy 16:1.
2015. “Spatial Distance, Community Disadvantage, and Racial and Ethnic Variation in Prison Inmate Access to Social Ties” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency Online First: 1-35.