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

Woodard, Tracey, & Jennifer Copp. 2016. Maternal Incarceration and Children's Delinquent Involvement: The Role of Sibling Relationships. Children and Youth Services Review, 70, 340-348
Giordano, Peggy C., Jennifer E. Copp, Wendy D. Manning, and Monica A. Longmore. 2016. Anger, Control, and Intimate Partner Violence in Young Adulthood: A Symbolic Interactionist Perspective. Journal of Family Violence, 31(1):1-13
Longmore, Monica A., Wendy D. Manning, Jennifer Copp, and Peggy C. Giordano. 2016. A Prospective Study of Adolescents’ Sexual Partnerships on Emerging Adults' Relationship Satisfaction and Intimate Partner Aggression. Emerging Adulthood 4(6) 403-416
Jennifer Copp, Peggy C. Giordano, Monica A. Longmore, and Wendy D. Manning. 2016. Dating Violence and Physical Health: A Longitudinal Lens on the Significance of Relationship Dynamics and Antisocial Lifestyle Characteristics. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 26(4), 251-262
Jennifer Copp, Elizabeth A. Mumford, and Bruce G. Taylor. 2016. Money Lending Practices and Adolescent Dating Relationship Abuse: Results from a National Sample. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 45(9), 1902-1916
Jennifer Copp, Peggy C. Giordano, Wendy D. Manning, and Monica A. Longmore. 2016. Couple-Level Economic/Career Concerns and Intimate Partner Violence in Young Adulthood. Journal of Marriage and Family, 78:744-758
Gary Kleck, Dylan Jackson. 2016. Does crime cause punitiveness?. Crime & Delinquency. Published online 3-27-16
Gary Kleck, Bethany Mims. 2016. Article productivity among the faculty of criminology and criminal justice doctoral programs, 2010-2014. Journal of Criminal Justice Education. Published online 3-11-16.
Gary Kleck, Will Hauser. 2016. Confidence in the police and fear of crime: do police force size and productivity matter?. American Journal of Criminal Justice. Published online 2-12-16
Dylan Jackson. 2016. Adult unemployment and serious property crime: A national case-control study. Journal of Quantitative Criminology 32:489-513
Gary Kleck. 2016. Objective risks and individual perceptions of those risks. Criminology & Public Policy 15:767-775
Gary Kleck, Tom Kovandzic, Jon Bellows. 2016. Does gun control reduce violent crime?. Criminal Justice Review 41:488-513
Intravia, Jon, Eric A. Stewart, Patricia Y. Warren and Kevin T. Wolff. 2016. Neighborhood Disorder and Generalized Trust: A Multilevel Mediation Examination of Fear and Negative Police Efficacy. Journal of Criminal Justice, 46 148-158
Berg, Mark, Eric A. Stewart, Jon Intravia, Patricia Y. Warren and Ronald L. Simons. 2016. Cynical Streets: Neighborhood Social Processes and Perceptions of Criminal Injustice. Criminology. 54(3):520-547
Williams, Brian N.; Billy R. Close; and Kang, Seong C. . 2016. Out of the Recent Darkness and into the New Light: Managerial Implications Emerging from the Martin- Zimmerman Encounter. Journal of Public Management & Social Policy: Vol. 23: No. 1, Article 2