Over 30 students attended the Criminology Career Panel, held March 25 at the Claude Pepper Center. This year’s panel included: Christian M. Hoffman United States Department of Justice Viani Menges Certified Criminal Defense Investigator, Florida’s 2nd Judicial Circuit Office of the Public Defender Tony Nardi Assets Protection Business Partner, Target

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.

Each month the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice will feature an internship opportunity especially for criminology students. As well as being great additions to your resume, the featured internships can also be taken for academic credit. This month’s featured internship is the Pat Thomas Law Enforcement Academy (PTLEA).

The College of Criminology and Criminal Justice is home to more McKnight Fellows than any other college at Florida State University, with a total of five McKnight Doctoral Fellows in residence. This prestigious and highly sought fellowship was established in 1984 to address the under-representation of African American and Hispanic faculty at colleges and universities in the State of Florida by increasing the pool of citizens qualified with Ph.D. degrees to teach at the college and university levels.

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.

FSU College of Criminology and Criminal Justice Professor Dr. Gary Kleck was featured in a recent WalletHub article. The article examines the states that are currently the most dependent on the gun industry. For insight WalletHub turned to a panel of experts, including Dr. Kleck, who answered questions on compromising solutions to the growing gun-related problems in the U.S.

The College of Criminology and Criminal Justice master’s degree in criminal justice studies jumped two spots to No. 5 in the 2016 U.S. News and World Report ranking of online programs. The college attributes the online program’s growing success to a combination of the first-rate faculty with the flexibility of a distance-learning environment.

Florida State University College of Criminology and Criminal Justice Ph.D. graduate, Ryan Charles Meldrum, has been awarded the 2016 New Scholar Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. This prestigious award recognizes outstanding scholarly contributions to the study of crime and/or criminal justice by someone who has received their doctoral degree within the past six years. Meldrum earned both his master’s and doctoral degrees from Florida State University before joining the Criminal Justice faculty at Florida International University in fall 2010.

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.