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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.

Katie Dean Williams, Career Liaison for the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, will adopt new office hours for the Spring 2015 semester. Students may schedule an appointment with Katie Dean at any time by email or can drop-in Mondays and Tuesdays from 10am to noon and 1pm to 3pm.

For the first time ever, the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice will host an all-FBI Career Panel on November 12. From 3:30 to 4:30pm in the Claude Pepper Center Broad Auditorium, professionals across the FBI agency will be on campus to speak to students about life as an agent, experiences that lead to positions with the FBI, and what factors make candidates attractive to decision-makers at the FBI.

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.

On Friday, October 3, 2014, in front of family, friends, and patrons of the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University (FSU), the Alumni and Friends of Criminology (AFC) Advisory Board inducted William S. Cheek of Swisher International, Inc., Dr. James D. Sewell of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (retired), and Jesse C. Vance of North American On-Site, LLC into its Hall of Fame. Dr.

The College of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University mourns the loss of Dr. Owusu-Ansah Agyapong. Agyapong, 61, passed away on August 25, 2014. He was a Professor in Florida A & M University’s Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice.

Alumni share news and updates about personal and professional accomplishments. Garry Adel, B.S. ’78, will retire from his law practice in late 2014. He has been practicing in Ocala for 31 years. Garry shared warm memories as a student and expressed his deep appreciation of the education he received at FSU Criminology.