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. 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.

Research Brought to Life

Our mission is to build an intellectual community that is comprised of students, professors, alumni, practitioners, and policy makers. Through our community’s focus on research, education, and service, we seek to bring research to life by directing our academic efforts to make a lasting societal difference, contributing to improving society by reducing the suffering, pain, and cost of crime in all aspects of the criminal justice system. Through these efforts, we seek to create future leaders in our field that possess critical, research, and application skills, helping them succeed in their future careers and achieve their goals to improve society at large.

Ashley T. Rubin. 2014. Three Waves of American Prison Development, 1790-1920. Punishment and Incarceration: A Global Perspective, Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance
Daniel P. Mears and Joshua C. Cochran. 2014. Who Goes to Prison?. Oxford Handbook on Prisons and Imprisonment
William G. Doerner and Steven P. Lab. 2014. Victimology (7th Edition)
Thomas G. Blomberg, and Julie Mestre. 2014. Net Widening: Past, Present and into the Future. The Encyclopedia of Theoretical Criminology
Kevin M. Beaver, Michael G. Vaughn, Matt DeLisi, John Paul Wright, Richard P. Wiebe, H. Harrington Cleveland, and Anthony Walsh. 2014. The Heritability of Common Risk and Protective Factors to Crime and Delinquency. Criminological Theory: A Life-Course Approach
Kevin M. Beaver, Joseph L. Nedelec, Joseph A. Schwartz, Eric J. Connolly. 2014. Evolutionary Behavioral Genetics of Violent Crime. Evolution of Violence
Jackson, Dylan B. and Kevin M. Beaver. 2014. The Impact of Physical Exercise on Inmate Offending and Violent Behavior: A Neurocognitive Perspective. The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Forensic Neuroscience
Kevin M. Beaver and Joseph A. Schwartz. 2014. MAOA Genotype Contributes to Violent and Criminal Behaviors. Taking Sides: Controversial Issues in Crime and Delinquency (11th Edition)
Kevin M. Beaver, Joseph A. Schwartz, and Jamie M. Gajos. 2014. A Review of the Genetic and Gene-Environment Interplay Contributors to Antisocial Phenotypes. The Development of Criminal and Antisocial Behavior: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Applications
John R. Logan, Zengwang Xu, Brian J. Stults. 2014. Interpolating U.S. Decennial Census Tract Data from as Early as 1970 to 2010: A Longitudinal Tract Database. The Professional Geographer 66: 412-420
Daniel P. Mears, Joshua C. Cochran, Brian J. Stults, Sarah J. Greenman, Avinash S. Bhati, Mark A. Greenwald. 2014. The 'True' Juvenile Offender: Age Effects and Juvenile Court Sanctioning. Criminology
Justin T. Pickett, Ted Chiricos, Marc Gertz. 2014. The Racial Foundations of Whites' Support for Child Saving. Social Science Research 44:44-59
Steven F. Messner, Eric P. Baumer. 2014. Stop, Question, and Assess: Comments on Rosenfeld and Fornango. Justice Quarterly
Kevin M. Beaver, Brian B. Boutwell, J.C. Barnes, Joseph A. Schwartz, Eric Connolly. 2014. A Quantitative Genetic Analysis of the Associations Among Language Skills, Peer Interactions, and Behavioral Problems in Childhood: Results from a Sample of Twins. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly 60 (Spring):142-167
Joseph A. Schwartz, Kevin M. Beaver. 2014. Exploring Whether Genetic Differences Between Siblings Explain Sibling Differences in Criminal Justice Outcomes. Comprehensive Psychiatry 55 (January):93-103