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

Sonja E. Siennick. 2013. Still the Favorite? Parents' Differential Treatment of Siblings Entering Young Adulthood. Journal of Marriage and Family
Jamie Vaske, Danielle Boisvert, John Paul Wright, Kevin M. Beaver. 2013. A Longitudinal Analysis of the Effects of a DRD4 Polymorphism on Marijuana Use. Psychiatry Research
Kevin M. Beaver, Joseph A. Schwartz. 2013. Serious Injuries from Fighting Produce Significant Reductions in Intelligence: Results from a Nationally Representative Sample of American Youth. Journal of Adolescent Health
Kevin M. Beaver, Dylan B. Jackson. 2013. The Influence of Neuropsychological Deficits in Early Childhood on Low Self-Control and Misconduct Through Early Adolescence. Journal of Criminal Justice
Curtis S. Dunkel, Eugene Mathes, Kevin M. Beaver. 2013. Life History Theory and the General Theory of Crime: Life Expectancy Effects on Low Self-Control and Criminal Intent. Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology
Brian B. Boutwell, Cortney A. Franklin, J.C. Barnes, Amanda K. Tamplin, Kevin M. Beaver, Melissa Petkovsek. 2013. Unraveling the Covariation of Low Self-Control and Victimization: A Behavior Genetic Approach. Journal of Adolescence
Brian B. Boutwell, Travis W. Franklin, J.C. Barnes, Kevin M. Beaver, Raelynn Deaton, Richard H. Lewis, Amanda K. Tamplin, Melissa A. Petkovsek. 2013. County-Level IQ and Fertility Rates: A Partial Test of Differential-K Theory. Personality and Individual Differences
Kevin M. Beaver, John Paul Wright, Brian B. Boutwell, J.C. Barnes, Matt DeLisi, Michael G. Vaughn. 2013. Exploring the Association Between the 2-Repeat Allele of the MAOA Gene Promoter Polymorphism and Psychopathic Personality Traits, Arrests, Incarceration, and Lifetime Antisocial Behavior. Personality and Individual Differences
Kevin M. Beaver, Matt DeLisi, Michael G. Vaughn. 2013. Non-Shared Environmental Effects on Adulthood Psychopathic Personality Traits: Results from a Monozygotic Twin Difference Scores Analysis. Psychiatric Quarterly
Kevin M. Beaver, Joseph A. Schwartz, Joseph L. Nedelec, Eric J. Connolly, Brian B. Boutwell, J.C. Barnes. 2013. Intelligence is Associated with Criminal Justice Processing: Arrest Through Incarceration. Intelligence
Kevin M. Beaver, Joseph A. Schwartz, Eric J. Connolly, Joseph L. Nedelec, Mohammed Said Al-Ghamdi, Ahmed Nezar Kobeisy. 2013. The Genetic and Environmental Architecture to the Stability of IQ: Results from two Independent Samples of Kinship Pairs. Intelligence
Kevin M. Beaver, Eric J. Connolly, Joseph A. Schwartz, Mohammed Said Al-Ghamdi, and Ahmed Nezar Kobeisy. 2013. Genetic and Environmental Contributions to Stability and Change in Levels of Self-Control. Journal of Criminal Justice
Kevin M. Beaver. 2013. Intelligence and Selective Attrition in a Nationally Representative and Longitudinal Sample of Americans. Personality and Individual Differences
J.C. Barnes, Michael TenEyck, Brian B. Boutwell, and Kevin M. Beaver. 2013. Indicators of Domestic Violence are Structured by Genetic and Non-shared Environmental Influences. Journal of Psychiatric Research
J.C. Barnes, Kevin M. Beaver, and Brian B. Boutwell. 2013. Genetic Risk Factors Correlate with County-Level Violent Crime Rates and Collective Disadvantage. Journal of Criminal Justice