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The College is pleased to announce that Dr. Daniel P. Mears, Mark C. Stafford Professor of Criminology has just been named a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology (ASC).

Research conducted by Criminology & Criminal Justice PhD student, Joonggon Kim, was recently featured on PsyPost, a psychology and neuroscience news website that is dedicated to reporting the latest research on human behavior, cognition, and society.

Pondera Solutions, a California based technology company, has recently expanded its Tallahassee office as it looks to grow its ongoing partnership with the College’s Internship Program.

Mark your calendars for the Criminology Spring Career Panel: Friday, April 13 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. Claude Pepper Center, Broad Auditorium

More than 200 attendees gathered on Westcott Plaza Friday, March 23, to dedicate the College’s newly established Fallen Officer Memorial, which honors eight college alumni who have died in the line of duty.

College of Criminology and Criminal Justice Dean and Sheldon L. Messinger Professor of Criminology Thomas Blomberg recently wrote an op-ed in response to February’s Parkland school shooting. The opinion article was published by the Sun Sentinel.

An essay written by College of Criminology and Criminal Justice Professor Dan Mears is currently being featured by the London School of Economics and Newsweek.

Research conducted by the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice on elder financial exploitation was recently featured on the personal finance website WalletHub. In a Dec. 6 article, “2017’s States with the Best Elder-Abuse Protections”, WalletHub featured Principle Investigator Thomas G. Blomberg on its panel of experts.

The Florida State University College of Criminology and Criminal Justice is the top college in the world for the study of crime, according to the Center for World University Rankings.

College of Criminology and Criminal Justice faculty member Dr. Kevin Beaver, Judith Rich Harris Professor of Criminology, is among the most productive criminology and criminal justice scholars in the nation. The designation was determined in a recent article published in the Journal of Criminal Justice Education — “Citation Trajectories of Academic Stars from the “Hit Parade””, by Wesley G. Jennings.