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

Kevin M. Beaver, Eric J. Connolly, and Joseph L. Schwartz . 2015. Male Physical Fighting Ability during Adolescence is Influenced by Height and Bulk. Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology 1 (December):434-446
Jillian Turanovic and Travis C. Pratt. 2015. Longitudinal Effects of Violent Victimization during Adolescence on Adverse Outcomes in Adulthood: A Focus on Prosocial Attachments. Journal of Pediatrics 166: 1062-1069
Jillian Turanovic, Michael D. Reisig, and Travis C. Pratt. 2015. Risky Lifestyles, Low Self-Control, and Violent Victimization across Gendered Pathways to Crime. Journal of Quantitative Criminology 31:183-206
Moule, Richard K. Jr., Callie H. Burt, Eric A. Stewart, and Ronald L. Simons. 2015. Developmental Trajectories of Individuals’ Code of the Street Beliefs through Emerging Adulthood. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 52:342-372
Brian J. Stults, and Matthew Hasbrouck. 2015. The Effect of Commuting on City-Level Crime Rates. Journal of Quantitative Criminology 31: 331-350
Feldmeyer, Ben, Patricia Y. Warren, Sonja E. Siennick, Malisa Neptune. 2015. Racial, Ethnic and Immigrant Threat: Is There a New Criminal Threat on State Sentencing?. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 52(1): 62-92
Baker, Thomas, Justin Pickett, J. Amin, K. Dhungana, Marc Gertz, and Laura Bedard . 2015. Shared Race/Ethnicity, Court Procedural Justice, and Self-Regulating Beliefs: A Study of Female Offenders. Law & Society Review 433-466
Pickett, Justin, Christina Mancini, Daniel P. Mears, and Marc Gertz . 2015. Public (Mis)Understanding of Crime Policy: The Effects of Criminal Justice Experience and Media Reliance. Criminal Justice Policy Review
Baker, Thomas, Christi Metcalfe, Tamar Berenblum, Gali Aviv, and Marc Gertz. 2015. Examining Public Preferences for the Allocation of Resources to Rehabilitative Versus Punitive Crime Policies. Criminal Justice Policy Review 448-462
Maier-Katkin, D. . 2015. Crimes Against Humanity. Sage Encyclopedia of Sociology, in press
Jacobsen, C, & Maier-Katkin, D. Breivik’s Sanity. 2015. Right-Wing Terrorism, Mass Murder and the Insanity Defense. 37 Human Rights Quarterly 1, 137-153
Hill, L., Maier-Katkin, D., & Kinsley, K. . 2015. Everything Old is New Again: The Criminology/Criminal Justice Freshman Research Seminar. Journal of Criminal Justice Education, vol. 26 (4), pp. 493-506
Meldrum, Ryan, J. C. Barnes, and Carter Hay. 2015. Sleep Deprivation, Low Self-Control, and Delinquency: A Test of the Strength Model of Self-Control. Journal of Youth and Adolescence 44:465-477
Hay, Carter, Xia Wang, Emily Ciaravolo, and Ryan Meldrum . 2015. Inside the Black Box: Identifying the Variables that Mediate the Effects of a Comprehensive Intervention on Delinquency. Crime and Delinquency 61:243-270
Cochran, Joshua C., Daniel P. Mears, William D. Bales, and Eric A. Stewart . 2015. Spatial Distance, Community Disadvantage, and Racial and Ethnic Variation in Prison Inmate Access to Social Ties. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency Online First: 1-35