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

Daniel Maier-Katkin. 2010. Stranger From Abroad: Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Friendship and Forgiveness
William G. Doerner. 2010. Victimology. Encyclopedia of Victimology and Crime Prevention
Gibson, Chris L. and Kevin M. Beaver. 2010. Does Body Type Really Have an Effect on Criminal Behavior?. Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Crime and Delinquency (9th Edition)
DeLisi, Matt, Kevin M. Beaver, Michael G. Vaughn, and John Paul Wright. 2010. Biological/Biosocial Theories. Criminological Theory: Readings and Retrospectives
Kevin M. Beaver. 2010. The Biochemistry of Violent Crime. Violent Crime: Clinical and Social Implications
DeLisi, Matt, Anna E. Kosloski, Alan J. Drury, Michael G. Vaughn, Kevin M. Beaver, and John Paul Wright. 2010. Never Desisters: A Descriptive Study of the Life-Course-Persistent Offender. Criminological Theory: A Life-Course Approach
Baumer, Eric P., Steven F. Messner, and Richard Rosenfeld. 2010. Institutional Anomie Theory. Encyclopedia of Criminological Theory
Kevin M. Beaver, Matt DeLisi, Michael G. Vaughn. 2010. A Biosocial Interaction Between Prenatal Exposure to Cigarette Smoke and Family Structure in the Prediction of Psychopathy in Adolescence. Psychiatric Quarterly
Patricia Y. Warren. 2010. Inequality by Design: The Connection Between Race, Crime, Victimization and Social Policy. Criminology & Public Policy
William D. Bales, Gerry G. Gaes, Thomas G. Blomberg, Kerensa N. Pate. 2010. Florida's Minimum 85 Percent Time Served for Prisoners: The Impact on Re-Entry Outcomes. Justice Policy and Research
Eric P. Baumer, Janet Lauritsen. 2010. Reporting Crime to the Police, 1973-2005: A Multivariate Analysis of Long-Term Trends in the NCS and NCVS. Criminology
Gary LaFree, Eric P. Baumer, Bob O'Brien. 2010. Social Context and the Racial Gap in Violence: A City-Level Analysis of Changes in Black-White Homicide Arrest Ratios, 1960-2000. American Sociological Review
Xia Wang, Daniel P. Mears, William D. Bales. 2010. Race-Specific Employment Contexts and Recidivism. Criminology
Xia Wang, Daniel P. Mears. 2010. Examining the Direct and Interactive Effects of Changes in Racial and Ethnic Threat on Sentencing Decisions. Journal of Research in Crime & Delinquency
Xia Wang, Daniel P. Mears. 2010. A Multilevel Test of Minority Threat Effects on Sentencing. Journal of Quantitative Criminology