Faculty

This year’s Graduate-Faculty Workshop Series begins Sept. 25 with Institutional Review Board Compliance Graduate students, make plans to attend the first installment of the Graduate-Faculty Workshop Series, Sept. 25 at 9:30 a.m. in Classroom #215. At this interactive workshop Dr. Daniel Mears will cover Institutional Review Board compliance.

FSU’s Master’s in Criminal Justice has been chosen as one of the Best Master’s in Criminal Justice Programs of 2015 by CriminalJustice.com http://www.criminaljustice.com/best-masters-criminal-justice-programs/

Assistant Professor, Ashley Rubin‘s chapter “THREE WAVES OF AMERICAN PRISON DEVELOPMENT, 1790–1920” published in Sociology of Crime Law and Deviance has been selected by the editorial team as an Outstanding Author Contribution in the 2015 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence. Dr. Rubin’s chapter was chosen as a winner as it is one of the most impressive pieces of work the team has seen throughout 2014.

The College of Criminology and Criminal Justice is proud to announce Dr. Billy Close has been selected as one of only four inductees to join Florida State University Alumni Association’s prestigious Circle of Gold. The Circle of Gold recognizes worthy individuals who, though their service and achievements, personify the university’s tradition of excellence.  

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