Research
Join Lambda Alpha Epsilon in funding a rescue operation by competing in the Amazing Race to Freedom Saturday, Feb. 18 at 12:00 p.m. in the FSU Student Life Center.
Research conducted by the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice on elder financial exploitation was recently featured on Tallahassee CBS affiliate WCTV.
Over 60 students and faculty members from the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice attended November’s American Society of Criminology (ASC) Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA.
The Justice Department’s National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) recently awarded FSU’s College of Criminology and Criminal Justice $730,615 to examine the impact of restrictive housing...
On Oct. 27, researchers from the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice presented findings and recommendations from their study on elder financial exploitation to residents of Westminster Oaks...
FSU College of Criminology & Criminal Justice Professor Dan Mears was featured as a guest columnist in the Sept. 10 issue of the Orlando Sentinel.
In the article, Dr. Mears addresses the Department of Justice’s unprecedented step of seeking to terminate all federal private-prison contracts. He discusses if the decision is sound, if states should follow suit, and ultimately, the need for credible research.
On Aug. 5, members of the College’s Elder Financial Exploitation Research Team met with the St. Joe Company, a Florida-based real estate developer and manager, to share their findings and make recommendations for a new retirement community currently being developed by St. Joe.
The faculty of the Florida State University College of Criminology and Criminal Justice leads the nation in article productivity in top journals.
According to a recent article in the Journal of Criminal Justice Education, the College’s faculty ranked No. 1 in productivity, with more articles published in the top-eight peer-reviewed journals than any other criminology or criminal justice program in the country.
Jennifer Lynne Holmes, MSW, M.S., a College of Criminology and Criminal Justice Ph.D. student, recently received the ASC’s Division of Victimology (DOV) Best Graduate Student Paper award for 2015.
The award winning article, “Campus Sexual Assault: A Systematic Review of Prevalence Research From 2000 to 2015,” has been published online in the journal Trauma, Violence, & Abuse and will be published in the print version of the journal in the upcoming months.
On Feb. 22 College of Criminology and Criminal Justice dean, Dr. Thomas Blomberg, will deliver a keynote address to the Palm Beach County Criminal Justice Commission. The purpose of Dr. Blomberg’s presentation is to assist Palm Beach County in setting their crime and justice priorities for 2016-2017.