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.

Mark T. Berg, Eric A. Stewart, Christopher J. Schreck, Ronald L. Simons. 2012. Victim-Offender Overlap in Context: Examining the Role of Neighborhood Street Culture. Criminology
Dylan Jackson, Kevin Beaver. 2012. Candidate Genes for Criminal and Delinquent Behavior. Psychology of Adolescence: New Research
Kevin Beaver, J. Eagle Shutt, Michael G. Vaughn, Matt DeLisi, John Paul Wright. 2012. Genetic Influences on Measures of Parental Negativity and Childhood Maltreatment: An Exploratory Study Testing for Gene X Environment Correlations. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice
Lindsey Devers, Marc Gertz, Nicole Leeper Piquero, Baruch Kraus. 2012. The Ethnic Typification of Crime and Support for Punitive Attitudes: An Exploratory Analysis of Arabs in Israel. Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice
Ryan Meldrum, Carter Hay. 2012. Do Peers Matter in the Development of Self-Control? Evidence from a Longitudinal Multi-Site Sample of Youth. Journal of Youth and Adolescence
Ashley T. Rubin. 2012. The Unintended Consequences of Penal Reform: A Case Study of Transportation in Eighteenth-Century London. Law & Society Review
John Paul Wright, Rebecca Schnupp, Kevin M. Beaver, Matt Delisi, Michael Vaughn. 2012. Genes, Maternal Negativity, and Self-Control: Evidence of a Gene X Environment Interaction. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice
Michael G. Vaughn, Matt DeLisi, Kevin M. Beaver, Brian E. Perron, Arnelyn Abdon. 2012. Toward a Criminal Justice Epidemiology: Behavioral and Physical Health of Probationers and Parolees in the United States. Journal of Criminal Justice
Joseph L. Nedelec, Joseph A. Schwartz, Eric J. Connolly, Kevin M. Beaver. 2012. Exploring the Association Between IQ and Differential Life Outcomes: Results from a Longitudinal Sample of Monozygotic Twins. Sociedade Brasileira de Psicologia
Kevin M. Beaver, Joseph L. Nedelec, Meghan W. Rowland, Joseph A. Schwartz. 2012. Genetic Risks and ADHD Symptomatology: Exploring the Effects of Parental Antisocial Behaviors in an Adoption-Based Study. Child Psychiatry & Human Development
J.C. Barnes, Kevin M. Beaver. 2012. Genetic and Non-Shared Environmental Factors Affect the Likelihood of Being Charged with Driving Under the Influence (DUI) and Driving While Intoxicated (DWI). Addictive Behaviors
J.C. Barnes, Kevin M. Beaver, Brian B. Boutwell. 2012. Height in Adolescence Predicts Polydrug Use in Adolescence and Young Adulthood. Physiology & Behavior
J.C. Barnes and Kevin M. Beaver. 2012. Marriage and Desistance from Crime: A Consideration of Gene-Environment Correlation. Journal of Marriage and Family
J.C. Barnes, Kevin M. Beaver. 2012. Extending Research on the Victim-Offender Overlap: Evidence from a Genetically Informative Analysis. Journal of Interpersonal Violence
J.C. Barnes, Kevin. M. Beaver, Brian B. Boutwell. 2012. Life-Course Persistent Offenders and the Propensity to Commit Sexual Assault. Sexual Abuse