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The Florida State University College of Criminology & Criminal Justice is pleased to announce the establishment of the Policing, Security Technology, and Private Security Research & Policy Institute.

A National Science Foundation grant totaling $236,985 was recently awarded to the College's Hate Crime Research and Policy Institute.

The College is pleased to announce that Dr. Ted Chiricos, William Julius Wilson Professor Emeritus of Criminology, has recently been named a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology (ASC).

College of Criminology & Criminal Justice Associate Professor Jillian Turanovic and Mark C. Stafford Professor of Criminology Daniel Mears were recently honored by the University with faculty awards.

By Amy Farnum-Patronis | FSU News Florida State University will soon become the home of a state-of-the-art Real-Time Crime Center that will bring together the Tallahassee area’s law enforcement agencies and some of the nation’s leading criminology researchers in an effort to make the community safer. Read More

A sense of service, faith, family, and 1970s television programs led College of Criminology & Criminal Justice alumnus Jason Kaelin to his career in law enforcement and, ultimately, to his current position with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Matthew Robinson, College of Criminology & Criminal Justice alumnus and professor at Appalachian State University, was recently named among the Top 25 most influential criminologists by AcademicInfluence.com, coming in at the 19th most influential in the field.

The College of Criminology and Criminal Justice’s online graduate program remains among the top 10 best programs in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2021 Best Online Programs ranking. The College’s online master’s degree in criminal justice retained its respective spots at No. 8 nationally and No. 6 among public universities. For veterans, the online program checked in at No. 5.

The College of Criminology & Criminal Justice is pleased to announce that Assistant Professor Brendan Lantz has been selected as the 2021 Academy New Scholar awardee for the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

Congratulations to all of our Fall 2020 College of Criminology & Criminal Justice Graduates! Please join us in celebrating the graduates, listed below, at Florida State University’s Virtual Graduation on Friday, December 11 at 7:30 p.m. (ET). The ceremony will be streamed on http://Facebook.com/floridastate, http://YouTube.com/floridastate and http://live.wfsu.org!