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High-Profile Publications 2007–July 2010

Since the last U.S. News and World Report ranking of U.S. Ph.D. programs in criminology (based on a 2009 survey), Florida State University's criminology program has brought in many new scholars, expanded the scope of its $20 million Center for Criminology and Public Policy Research, and had faculty members selected as the editors of four prestigious journals: Criminology, Criminology and Public Policy, Social Problems, and Quantitative Criminology.

This list of our current faculty's publications in prominent journals reveals the scholarly productivity that makes the program what it is today: ranked #1 for its published research.

Color Key
  • Faculty/research faculty
  • Graduate student at time of publication

Additional Select Publications

  • Baumer, Eric P. Forthcoming. “A Comprehensive Assessment of the Contemporary Crime Trends Puzzle.” National Academy of Sciences.
  • Beaver, Kevin M., Michael G. Vaughn, Matt DeLisi, and John Paul Wright. Forthcoming. “Anabolic-androgenic Steroid Use and Involvement in Violent Behavior in a Nationally Representative Sample of Young Adult Males in the United States.” American Journal of Public Health.
  • LaFree, Gary, Baumer, Eric P., and Bob O'Brien. 2010. “Social Context and the Racial Gap in Violence: A City-Level Analysis of Changes in Black-White Homicide Arrest Ratios, 1960��2000.” American Sociological Review.
  • Stults, Brian J. and Eric Baumer. 2007. Racial Context and Police Force Size: Evaluating the Empirical Validity of the Minority Threat Perspective." American Journal of Sociology.
  • Warren, Patricia and Amy Farrell. Forthcoming. “Racial Profiling and the Police: Can the Political Environment Foster Organizational Change?” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences.

Crime and Delinquency

  • Beaver, Kevin M., Chris L. Gibson, Michael G. Turner, Matt DeLisi, Michael G. Vaughn, and Ashleigh Holand. 2009. “The Stability of Delinquent Peer Associations: A Biosocial Test of Warr's Sticky Friends Hypothesis.”
  • Boutwell, Brian and Kevin M. Beaver. 2009. “The Intergenerational Transmission of Low Self-Control.”
  • Kleck, Gary and James C. Barnes. Forthcoming. “Deterrence and macro-level perceptions of punishment risks: is there a “collective wisdom?”
  • Kleck, Gary and James C. Barnes. Forthcoming. “Do More Police Generate More Crime Deterrence?”
  • Lucken, Karol and William D. Bales. 2008. “Florida's Sexually Violent Predator Program: An Examination of Risk and Civil Commitment Eligibility”
  • Warren, Patricia. 2008. “Perceptions of Police Disrespect During Vehicle Stops: A Race-Based Analysis.”

Criminology

  • Baumer, Eric P. and Janet Lauritsen. 2010 “Reporting Crime to the Police, 1973�2005: A Multivariate Analysis of Long-Term Trends in the NCS and NCVS.”
  • Baumer, Eric P. and Regan Gustafson. 2007. “Social Organization and Instrumental Crime: Assessing the Empirical Validity of Classic and Contemporary Anomie Theories.”
  • Beaver, Kevin M. 2008. "Nonshared Environmental Influences on Adolescent Delinquent Involvement and Adult Criminal Behavior."
  • Beaver, Kevin M., Matt DeLisi, Michael G. Vaughn, John Paul Wright, and Brian Boutwell. Forthcoming. “The Relationship between Self-Control and Language: Evidence of a Shared Etiological Pathway.”
  • Chiricos, Ted, Kelle Barrick, William Bales, and Stephanie Bontrager. "The Labeling of Convicted Felons and Its Consequences for Recidivism."
  • Hay, Carter and Walter Forrest. 2008. “Self-Control and The Concept of Opportunity: Making the Case for a More Systematic Union.”
  • Mears, Daniel P. and William D. Bales. 2009. “Supermax Incarceration and Recidivism.”
  • Mears, Daniel P., Carter Hay, Marc Gertz, and Christina Mancini. 2007. "Public Opinion and the Foundation of the Juvenile Courts."
  • Mears, Daniel P., Xia Wang, Carter Hay, and William D. Bales. Forthcoming. "Social Ecology and Recidivism: Implications for Prisoner Reentry."
  • Schreck, Christopher J., Eric A. Stewart, and D. Wayne Osgood. Forthcoming. “A Reappraisal of the Victim/Offender Overlap.”
  • Siennick, Sonja E. 2007. “The Timing and Mechanisms of the Offending-Depression Link.”
  • Siennick, Sonja E. and Jeremy Staff. 2008. “Explaining the Educational Deficits of Delinquent Youths.”
  • Stewart, Eric A. and Ronald L. Simons. 2010. “Race, Code of the Street, and Violent Delinquency: A Multilevel Investigation of Neighborhood Street Culture and Individual Norms of Violence.”
  • Jongyeon Tark and Gary Kleck. 2004. “Resisting crime: the effects of victim action on the outcomes of crimes.”
  • Gary Kleck, Brion Sever, Spencer Li, and Marc Gertz. 2005. “The missing link in general deterrence research.”
  • Warren, Patricia, Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, William R. Smith, Matthew Zingraff, Marcinda Mason. 2006. “Driving While Black: Bias Processes and Racial Disparity in Stops.”

Criminology and Public Policy

  • Baumer, Eric P. 2008. “Evaluating the Balance Sheet of Asset Forfeiture Laws: Toward Evidence-Based Policy Assessments.”
  • Mears, Daniel P. 2008. “Accountability, Efficiency, and Effectiveness in Corrections: Shining a Light on the Black Box of Prison Systems.”
  • Stewart, Eric A.. 2007. “Either They Don't Know or They Don't Care: Black Males and Negative Police Experiences.”
  • Warren, Patricia. 2010. “Inequality by Design: The Connection between Race, Crime, Victimization and Social Policy.”
  • Warren, Patricia and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey. 2009. “Racial Profiling and Searches: Did the Politics of Racial Profiling Change Officer Behavior?”

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

  • Bales, William D. and Daniel P. Mears. 2008. “Inmate Social Ties and the Transition to Society: Does Visitation Reduce Recidivism?”
  • Boutwell, Brian and Kevin M. Beaver. 2009. “The Intergenerational Transmission of Low Self-Control.”
  • Mears, Daniel P., Christina Mancini, and Eric A. Stewart. 2009. “Whites' Concern about Crime: The Effects of Interracial Contact.”
  • Schreck, Christopher J., Melissa W. Burek, Eric A. Stewart, and J. Mitchell Miller. Forthcoming. “Distress and Violent Victimization among Young Adolescents: A Test of the Social Interactionist Explanation and a Case Study of Early Puberty.”
  • Stewart, Eric A., Eric P. Baumer, Rod Brunson, and Ronald Simons. 2009. “Neighborhood Racial Context and Perceptions of Racial Discrimination among Black Youth.”
  • Warren, Patricia, Ted Chiricos, and William Bales. 2010. “(Forthcoming) The Imprisonment Penalty for Young Black and Hispanic Males: A Crime-Specific Analysis.”

Justice Quarterly

  • Kevin M. Beaver, Matt DeLisi, Mears, Daniel P., and Stewart, Eric. 2009. “Low Self-Control and Contact with the Criminal Justice System in a Nationally Representative Sample of Males.”
  • Gibson, Chris, Sara Z. Morris, and Kevin M. Beaver. Forthcoming. “Secondary Exposure to Violence during Childhood and Adolescence: Does Neighborhood Context Matter?”
  • Reisig, Michael D., William D. Bales, Carter Hay, and Xia Wang. Forthcoming. “Racial Inequality and Reconviction among African-American Male Offenders.”
  • Tittle, Charles, Lisa Broidy, and Marc Gertz. 2008. “Strain, Crime, and Contingencies.”
  • Wright, John Paul, Kevin M. Beaver, Matt DeLisi, and Michael G. Vaughn. Forthcoming. "Evidence of Negligible Parenting Influences on Self-Control, Delinquent Peers, and Delinquency in a Sample of Monozygotic Twins."