Blomberg’s research is focused upon identifying ways to more effectively link research knowledge to public policy. This includes examining the relationship between educational achievement among incarcerated youthful offenders and successful…
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…
Baumer’s research focuses on how structural and cultural features of social collectivities influence attitudes and behavior. He had addressed this general theme in multilevel studies of the nature of violence,…
Beaver’s research examines the biosocial underpinnings to antisocial behaviors. He has employed behavioral genetic and molecular genetic methodologies to unpack the gene-environmental basis to a range of criminal and delinquent…
Ted Chiricos' recent research examined the predictors and consequences of criminal justice punitiveness. His collaborative work has shown that economic insecurity and the extent to which people link crime with…
Jennifer E. Copp is currently a NIJ postdoctoral fellow at Bowling Green State University and recently received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the same institution. Her work focuses on crime…
Being a sworn police officer for 29 years has steered much of Bill’s research interests into the areas of law enforcement and the treatment of crime victims. A recent article…
Gertz is most well known for successfully conducting thousands and thousands of surveys, which have been used by professors and doctoral students within and outside the college for high quality…
Hay’s research examines the causes and prevention of crime with special attention to the family environment, the development of self-control, and policy efforts to reduce juvenile crime.
Johnson’s research examines the processes that perpetuate racial and gender inequality within various social contexts. She has addressed this theme in two lines of research. Her current work has focused…
Kleck's recent research has found that higher general gun ownership rates reduce homicide rates, probably because the violence-reducing effects of guns among noncriminal victims and prospective victims outweigh the violence-increasing…
Mears’ current research has identified ways in which community conditions influence sentencing decisions; variation in the theoretical justification, uses, and impacts of supermax prisons; the recidivism-reducing effects of inmate visitation;…
Rubin’s research examines punishment through historical and sociological perspectives, relying on qualitative and quantitative data. She has ongoing projects that examine eighteenth-century British criminal justice, sentencing disparities for nineteenth-century Pennsylvania…
Sonja Siennick is a life course criminologist with specialties in kinship and friendship relations and the transition to adulthood. She studies the close personal relationships of people who are involved…
Stewart’s recent research has found that neighborhood ecological characteristics influence recidivism, aspirations, and violence.
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Jillian J. Turanovic is currently a doctoral candidate in the school of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University. Her work focuses on the causes and consequences of victimization,…
Stults' research focuses largely on discrimination in the application of social control. His recent work, published in Criminology and the American Journal of Sociology, addressed racial differences in arrest rates…
Dr. Waldo’s experience covers a wide range of activities related to academic criminology and the criminal justice system. This includes almost 50 years of University teaching, administration, and research, in…
Patricia Y. Warren, Associate Professor, completed her Ph.D. in 2005 from North Carolina State University in Sociology. Professor Warren's first area of research focuses on race/ethnicity as an organizing principle…
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