Faculty

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida State University’s online graduate programs in education, criminal justice, information technology and business are among the best in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2015 Best Online Program Rankings.

The College of Criminology and Criminal Justice is excited to announce the recent expansion of its faculty. Dr. Jennifer Copp is a National Institute of Justice postdoctoral fellow at Bowling Green State University. She recently received her Ph.D. from the same institution. Her work focuses on crime and other problem behaviors during adolescence and young adulthood, with a particular emphasis on intimate partner violence (IPV).

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  

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.