Research

The College of Criminology and Criminal Justice in partnership with Merrill Lynch and Seniors vs. Crime is conducting research on elder financial fraud in The Villages, one of the largest retirement communities in the nation. In 2011, it was reported that $2.9 billion was exploited from elder victims — a 12 percent increase from 2008. The fastest growing segment of the U.S. population is 65 and older, so the occurrence and impact of elder financial fraud will likely continue to escalate.

Kaleena Burkes, doctoral candidate in criminology, has been awarded the McKnight Dissertation Fellowship for the 2015-16 year.  This fellowship provides one year of support for students completing the dissertation in STEM disciplines.  Awardees have demonstrated superior academic achievement and are committed to careers in teaching and research at the university or college level.  Burkes’ research interests include: prisoner re-entry, recidivism, life course criminology, and race & crime.

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.

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

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.

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.