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.

Kevin M. Beaver, Matt DeLisi, Michael G. Vaughn, John Paul Wright, Kevin B. Boutwell. 2008. The Relationship Between Self-Control and Language: Evidence of a Shared Etiological Pathway. Criminology
Kevin M. Beaver. 2008. The Interaction Between Genetic Risk and Childhood Sexual Abuse in the Prediction of Adolescent Violent Behavior. Sexual Abuse
Kevin M. Beaver. 2008. Nonshared Environmental Influences on Adolescent Delinquent Involvement and Adult Criminal Behavior. Criminology
Michael G. Vaughn, Matt DeLisi, Kevin M. Beaver, John Paul Wright. 2008. Identifying Latent Classes of Behavioral Risk Based on Early Childhood Manifestations of Self-Control. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice
Marie Ratchford, Kevin M. Beaver. 2008. Neuropsychological Deficits, Low Self-Control, and Delinquent Involvement: Toward a Biosocial Explanation to Delinquency. Criminal Justice and Behavior
Patricia Y. Warren. 2008. Perceptions of Police Disrespect During Vehicle Stops: A Race-Based Analysis. Crime & Delinquency
Kevin M. Beaver, Matt DeLisi, Michael G. Vaughn, John Paul Wright. 2008. The Intersection of Genes and Neuropsychological Deficits in the Prediction of Adolescent Delinquency and Low Self-Control. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
Rod K. Brunson, Eric A. Stewart, Christopher J. Schreck. 2008. Lessons of the Street Code: Policy Implications for Reducing Violent Victimization Among Disadvantaged Citizens. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice
Christopher J. Schreck, Eric A. Stewart, and D. Wayne Osgood. 2008. A Reappraisal of the Victim/Offender Overlap. Criminology
Sonja E. Siennick, Jeremy Staff. 2008. Explaining the Educational Deficits of Delinquent Youths. Criminology
William D. Bales and Daniel P. Mears. 2008. Inmate Social Ties and the Transition to Society: Does Visitation Reduce Recidivism?. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
William G. Doerner. 2007. Introduction to Law Enforcement: An Insider's View (3rd Edition)
Thomas G. Blomberg and Carter Hay. 2007. Visions of Social Control: Revisited. Sociology and Politics of Denial, Social Control and Human Rights - Essays in Honour of Stanley Cohen
Wright, John Paul, Francis T. Cullen, and Kevin M. Beaver. 2007. Does Punishment Work?. Ethics in Practice: An Anthology
DeLisi, Matt, Brendan D. Dooley, and Kevin M. Beaver. 2007. Super-Predators Revisited. Criminology Research Focus