So your teenage daughter doesn’t want to be seen in public with you. That phase will pass (you hope). Her intelligence, on the other hand, was already solidified by the time she became a teen, according to a new study published in the journal Intelligence.

In recent decades, America entered an era of mass incarceration and now leads the world in imprisonment. The result has been mixed. Mass incarceration may have contributed to some reduction in crime, but the evidence more clearly points to increased recidivism and to collateral harms to children, families and communities, all at great expense.

New research finds parenting-related behaviors have negligible effect on child’s intelligence TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Reading bedtime stories, engaging in conversation and eating nightly dinners together are all positive ways in which parents interact with their children, but according to new research, none of these actions have any detectable influence on children’s intelligence later in life.

Sun Sentinal: Florida Supreme Court to examine claim from Palm Beach County case

FSU Entrepreneur in Residence Vic Vickers shares his experience teaching students about entrepreneurs with a social conscience in fighting white-collar crime.  

Florida State University Criminologist Gary Kleck Discusses his Research on Gun Control. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6pAYJytnBQ&list=UUL0Kx6Un-Spf0aK_-nojkLQ&index=2  

Dr. Eric Stewart, Professor at Florida State University’s College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, has recently been elected as the incoming Vice President of the American Society of Criminology (ASC). Dr. Stewart will assume this role in November 2015 at the end of the annual ASC meeting, replacing Dr. Eric Baumer, the Allen E. Liska Professor of Criminology at FSU who will assume the role in November 2014. The VP serves as part of the ASC Executive Board, Chair of the Publications Committee, and Editor of The Criminologist.

Meghan Speakes Collins Extensive data collected by the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) can help predict which youths are most likely to commit additional crimes following release from a residential placement. Also, youths often experience improvements in behavior during their residential stay, and those with the greatest improvements are less likely to commit new crimes.

Florida State University Professor Gary Kleck has been named one of the Top 25 criminal justice professors in the country by a leading forensic sciences website. Joining Kleck on the ForensicsColleges.com list are professors from American University, University of Maryland and Rutgers University.

A new study by criminologists Sonja Siennick and Eric Stewart of Florida State University and Jeremy Staff of Penn State takes a hard look at the effects of incarceration on marriage. Here’s what we already know from other research, what this study says, and the questions that remain unanswered.