Associate Professor Bill Bales has been promoted to professor and Assistant Professors Brian Stults and Patricia Warren have been promoted to associate professor with tenure in the FSU College of Criminology and Criminal Justice.

Bales joined the faculty in 2003 from the Florida Department of Corrections where he was Bureau Chief of Research and Data Analysis. He received his Ph.D. from Florida State University. Bales’ main research interests are sentencing, assessing the effectiveness and consequences of punishment strategies, evaluation of correctional practices and programs, and community re-entry,

Stults joined the faculty in 2006 from the criminology, law and society department at the University of Florida. He received his Ph.D. from the University at Albany (SUNY). Stults’ main research interests are race and crime, neighborhoods and crime, and residential segregation.

Warren joined the faculty in 2006 from the department of sociology at the University of Massachusetts. She received her Ph.D. from North Carolina State University. Warren’s main research interests are racial profiling, race and class inequalities, disparities in criminal justice processing, and crime and social control.