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.

J.C. Barnes, Kevin M. Beaver, Brian B. Boutwell. 2012. More Alike than Different: Assortative Mating and Antisocial Propensity in Adulthood. Criminal Justice and Behavior
Kevin M. Beaver, Matt DeLisi, Michael G. Vaughn, and John Paul Wright. 2012. Dopaminergic Polymorphism and Educational Achievement: Results from a Longitudinal Sample of Americans. Developmental Psychology
Kevin M. Beaver, Matt DeLisi, Michael G. Vaughn, John Paul Wright. 2012. An Interaction Between Perceived Stress and 5HTTLPR Genotype in the Prediction of Stable Depressive Symptomatology. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
Kevin M. Beaver, Michael G. Vaughn, Matt DeLisi, J. C. Barnes, and Brian B. Boutwell. 2012. The Neuropsychological Underpinnings to Psychopathic Personality Traits in a Nationally Representative and Longitudinal Sample. Psychiatric Quarterly
Kevin M. Beaver. 2012. The Familial Concentration and Transmission of Crime. Criminal Justice and Behavior
Joshua S. May and Kevin M. Beaver. 2012. The Neuropsychological Contributors to Psychopathic Personality Traits in Adolescence. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
J.C. Barnes, Kristin Golden, Christina Mancini, Brian B. Boutwell, Kevin M. Beaver, and Brie Diamond. 2012. Marriage and Involvement in Crime: A Consideration of Reciprocal Effects in a Nationally Representative Sample. Justice Quarterly
J.C. Barnes, Kristin Golden, Christina Mancini, Brian B. Boutwell, Kevin M. Beaver, and Brie Diamond. 2012. Marriage and Involvement in Crime: A Consideration of Reciprocal Effects in a Nationally Representative Sample.. Justice Quarterly
Raymond B. Vickers. 2011. Panic in the Loop: Chicago's Banking Crisis of 1932
Butts, Jeffrey A. and Daniel P. Mears. 2011. Trends in American Youth Crime. Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Piquero, Nicole, Marc Gertz and Jason Bratton. 2011. Public Attitudes Toward Blame Worthiness and Control of the Mortgage Foreclosure Crisis. Economic Crisis and Crime
Vaughn, Michael G., Brian E. Perron, Kevin M. Beaver, Matt DeLisi, and Jade Wexler. 2011. Transactional Pathways in the Development of Externalizing Behaviors in a Sample of Kindergarten Children with Impaired Self-Control. Control Theory and Its Applications
Baumer, Eric. P.. 2011. Describing and Explaining Crime Trends: An Assessment of Key Issues, Current Knowledge, and Future Directions of Scientific Inquiry. Oxford Handbook on Crime and Criminal Justice
William D. Bales, Karen Mann, Thomas G. Blomberg, Brian McManus, Karla Dhungana. 2011. Electronic Monitoring in Florida. The Jouranl of Offender Monitoring