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

Jillian Turanovic and Travis C. Pratt. 2019. Thinking About Victimization: Context and Consequences. New York: Routledge
Lantz, B. (In Press). 2019. The Consequences of Crime in Company: Co-offending, Victim-Offender Relationship, and Quality of Violence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence (E-pub ahead of print)
Lantz, B. (In Press). 2019. Victim, Police, and Prosecutorial Responses to Same-Sex Intimate Partner Violence: A Comparative Approach. Forthcoming at Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice
Lantz B. & Wenger, M.R. (In Press). 2019. The Co-offender as Counterfactual: A Quasi-Experimental Within-Partnership Approach to the Examination of the Relationship between Race and Arrest. Journal of Experimental Criminology (E-pub ahead of print)
Ramos, Javier and Marin R. Wenger. 2019. Immigration and Recidivism: What is the Link?. Justice Quarterly, DOI: 10.1080/07418825.2019.1656763
Jillian Turanovic. 2019. Heterogeneous Effects of Adolescent Violent Victimization on Problematic Outcomes in Early Adulthood. Criminology. doi: 10.1111/1745-9125.12198
Ruback, R.B., Knoth, L., Gladfelter, A., & Brendan Lantz. 2018 (In Press). Restitution Payment and Recidivism: An Experimental Analysis. Criminology & Public Policy
Brendan Lantz, Gladfelter, A., & Ruback, R.B . 2018 (In Press). Stereotypical Hate Crimes and Criminal Justice Processing: A Multi-Dataset Comparison of Bias Crime Arrest Patterns by Offender and Victim Race. Justice Quarterly
Brendan Lantz. 2018 (In Press). The Consequences of Crime in Company: Co-offending, Victim-Offender Relationship, and Quality of Violence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence
Welsh, B. C., Zimmerman, G. M., & Zane, S. N. 2018. The centrality of theory in modern day crime prevention: Developments, challenges, and opportunities. Justice Quarterly, 35, 139–161
Zane, S. N., & B. C. Welsh. 2018. Toward an “age of imposed use”? Evidence-based crime policy in a law and social science context. Criminal Justice Policy Review, 29, 280–300
Zane, S. N. 2018. Exploring the minority threat hypothesis for juveniles in criminal court: Static versus dynamic threat and diffuse versus targeted effects. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, 16, 418–441
Zane, S. N., Welsh, B. C., & Zimmerman, G. M. 2018. Criminal offending and mortality over the full life-course: age-90 follow-up of the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study. Journal of Quantitative Criminology
Wenger, Marin R. 2018. Clarifying the Relationship between Racial Diversity and Crime: Neighborhoods versus Cities. Crime and Delinquency, DOI: 10.1177/0011128718768726
Julie Brancale and Thomas G. Blomberg. 2018. From Mass Incarceration to a Medium Secure Society. In (Maria João Guia, João Pedroso, and Silvia Gomes, eds.) Prison, State, and Violence. Springer