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.

Justin T. Pickett, Daniel P. Mears, Eric A. Stewart, Marc Gertz. 2012. Security at the Expense of Liberty: A Test of Predictions Deriving from the Culture of Control Thesis. Crime & Delinquency
Christina Mancini, Daniel P. Mears. 2012. The Effect of Agency Scandal on Public Views Toward the Correctional System. Criminal Justice Review
Karen Heimer, Kecia R. Johnson, Joseph B. Lang, Andres F. Rengifo, Don Stemen. 2012. Race and Women's Imprisonment: Poverty, African American Presence, and Social Welfare. Journal of Quantitative Criminology
Patricia Y. Warren, Ted Chiricos, William D. Bales. 2012. The Imprisonment Penalty for Young Black and Hispanic Males. Journal of Research in Crime & Deliquency
Justin T. Pickett, Ted Chiricos, Kristin M. Golden, Marc Gertz. 2012. Reconsidering the Relationship Between Perceived Neighborhood Racial Composition and Whites' Perceptions of Victimization Risk: Does Racial Typification of Crime Matter?. Criminology
Justin T. Pickett, Ted Chiricos. 2012. Controlling Other People's Children: Racialized Views of Delinquency and Whites' Punitive Attitudes Toward Offenders. Criminology
Ashley N. Arnio, Eric P. Baumer. 2012. Demography, Foreclosure, and Crime: Assessing Spatial Heterogeneity in Contemporary Models of Neighborhood Crime Rates. Demographic Research
Eric P. Baumer, Kevin T. Wolff, Ashley N. Arnio. 2012. A Multi-City Analysis of Foreclosure and Crime Across Neighborhoods. Social Science Quarterly
Ashley N. Arnio, Eric P. Baumer, Kevin T. Wolff. 2012. Assessing the Implications of the Contemporary Foreclosure Crisis on U.S. Crime Rates: A County-Level Analysis. Social Science Research
Shanna Van Slyke, William D. Bales. 2012. A Contemporary Study of the Decision to Incarcerate White-Collar and Street Property Offenders. Punishment & Society
William D. Bales, Alex R. Piquero. 2012. Racial/Ethnic Differentials in Sentencing to Incarceration. Justice Quarterly
Carter Hay, Brian J. Stults, Emily Restivo. 2012. Suppressing the Harmful Effects of Key Risk Factors: Results from the Children At Risk Experimental Intervention. Criminal Justice and Behavior
Carter Hay, Ryan C. Meldrum, Alex R. Piquero. 2012. Negative Cases in the Nexus Between Self-Control, Social Bonds, and Delinquency. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice
Dylan B. Jackson, Carter Hay. 2012. The Conditional Impact of Official Labeling on Subsequent Delinquency: Considering the Attenuating Role of Family Attachment. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
Ryan C. Meldrum, Jacob T. N. Young, Carter Hay, Jamie L. Flexon. 2012. Does Self-Control Influence Maternal Attachment? A Reciprocal Effects Analysis from Early Childhood Through Middle Adolescence. Journal of Quantitative Criminology