Research

FSU’s College of Criminology and Criminal Justice is home to the nation’s number one criminology faculty in the world. Our team of experts is ranked number one in the nation for research productivity and are among the top 10 for grant acquisition, as demonstrated below. Many of our faculty are industry experts and offer extensive research on topics like gun control, biosocial criminology and social control, to name a few.

The list below contains nearly 1,000 peer-reviewed journal articles published by our faculty, many of which are co-authored with former and current graduate students. To the left is our one-of-a-kind filter box, which allows you to filter articles by topic and leverage our expertise for your personal interests and research endeavors. We hope you enjoy learning about criminology as much as we enjoy expanding the field of research.

Lastest Research

Barnes, J.C., Kristin Lavin, Christina Mancini, Brian B. Boutwell, Kevin M. Beaver, and Brie Diamond. 2014. Marriage and Involvement in Crime: A Consideration of Reciprocal Effects in a Nationally Representative Sample. Justice Quarterly 31 (March/April):229-256
Barnes, J.C., Brian B. Boutwell, Kevin M. Beaver, Chris L. Gibson, and John Paul Wright . 2014. On the Consequences of Ignoring Genetic Influences in Criminological Research. Journal of Criminal Justice 42 (November/December):471-482
Sonja E. Siennick, Eric A. Stewart, and Jeremy Staff . 2014. Explaining the Association between Incarceration and Divorce. Criminology 52: 371-398
Simons, Ronald L., Callie H. Burt, Ashley B. Barr, Man Kit Lei, and Eric A. Stewart . 2014. Incorporating Routine Activities, Activity Spaces, and Situational Definitions into the Social Schematic Theory of Crime. Criminology 52: 655-687
Logan, John R., Zengwang Xu, and Brian Stults . 2014. Interpolating US Decennial Census Tract Data from as Early as 1970 to 2010: A Longitudinal Tract Database. The Professional Geographer
Daniel P. Mears, Joshua C. Cochran, Brian J. Stults, Sarah J. Greenman, Avinash S. Bhati, and Mark A. Greenwald. 2014. The 'True' Juvenile Offender: Age Effects and Juvenile Court Sanctioning. Criminology 52: 169-194
Brian J. Stults and Christi S. Falco. 2014. Unbalanced Institutional Commitments and Criminal Behavior: an Individual Level Assessment of Institutional Anomie Theory. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice 12: 77-100
Thomas G. Blomberg and George B. Pesta. 2014. Delinquency and Education. The Encyclopedia of Juvenile Justice
Gajos, Jamie, Kevin M. Beaver, Marc Gertz, and Jason Bratton. 2014. Public Opinion of Genetic and Neuropsychological Contributors to Criminal Involvement. Journal of Criminal Justice Education
Baker, Thomas, W. Pelfrey, L. Bedard, K. Dhungana, Marc Gertz, and K. Golden. 2014. Female Inmates’ Procedural Justice Perceptions of the Police and Courts: Is There a Spill-Over of Police Effects?. Criminal Justice and Behavior 41: 144-162
Cochran, Joshua C., Daniel P. Mears, and William D. Bales . 2014. Who Gets Visited in Prison? Individual- and Community-Level Disparities in Inmate Visitation Experiences. Crime & Delinquency, 1:24
Cochran, Joshua C., Daniel P. Mears, and William D. Bales . 2014. Assessing the Effectiveness of Correctional Sanctions. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 30, 317-347
Wang, Xia, Carter Hay, Todak, Natalie Erin, and William D. Bales . 2014. Criminal Propensity, Social Context, and Recidivism: A Multilevel Analysis of Interactive Relationships. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 41:3, 300-317
Cochran, Joshua C., Daniel P. Mears, William D. Bales, and Eric A. Stewart. 2014. Does Inmate Behavior Affect Post-Release Offending? Investigating the Misconduct-Recidivism Relationship among Youth and Adults. Justice Quarterly 31:1044-1073
Tasca, Melinda, Jillian J. Turanovic, Clair White, and Nancy Rodriguez. 2014. Prisoners' Assessments of Mental Health Problems among their Children. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology