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.

William G. Doerner. 2006. A Regional Analysis of Homicide Rates in the United States. Criminology
Gary Kleck, Jongyeon Tark, Jon J. Bellows. 2006. What Methods are Most Frequently Used in Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice?. Journal of Criminal Justice
JongyeonTark, Gary Kleck. 2006. Resisting Crime: The Effects of Victim Action on the Outcomes of Crimes. Criminology
Carter Hay, Michelle M. Evans. 2006. Violent Victimization and Involvement in Delinquency: Examining Predictions from General Strain Theory. Journal of Criminal Justice
Carter Hay, Edward N. Fortson, Dusten R. Hollist, Irshad Altheimer, and Lonnie M. Schaible. 2006. The Impact of Community Disadvantage on the Relationship Between the Family and Juvenile Crime. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
Carter Hay and Walter Forrest. 2006. The Development of Self-Control: Examining Self-Control Theory's Stability Thesis. Criminology
Scott Ryan, Laura Bedard, Marc Gertz. 2006. The Influence of Gender on the Placement of Children with Gay or Lesbian Adoptive Parents. Journal of GLBT Family Studies
John R. Logan, Brian J. Stults. 2006. Racial Differences in Exposure to Crime: The City and Suburbs of Cleveland in 1990. Criminology
Patricia Warren, Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, William Smith Matthew Zingraff, Marcinda Mason. 2006. Driving While Black: Bias Processes and Racial Disparity in Stops. Criminology
Carter Hay. 2006. Parenting, Low Self-Control, and Delinquency: A Test of Self-Control Theory. Criminology
Eric A. Stewart, Ronald L. Simons and Rand D. Conger. 2006. Assessing Neighborhood and Social Psychological Influences on Childhood Violence in an African American Sample. Criminology
Eric A. Stewart, Ronald L. Simons. 2006. Structure and Culture in African-American Adolescent Violence: A Partial Test of the Code of the Street Thesis. Justice Quarterly
Charis E. Kubrin, Eric A. Stewart. 2006. Predicting Who Reoffends: The Neglected Role of Neighborhood Context in Recidivism Studies. Criminology
Rod K. Brunson, Eric A. Stewart. 2006. Young African American Women, the Street Code, and Violence: An Exploratory Analysis. Journal of Crime and Justice
Prine, Rudy and Marc Gertz. 2005. The Elusive Search for Uniform Sentencing: A Look at Denmark and Scotland. Comparative and International Criminal Justice: Traditional and Nontraditional Systems of Law and Control