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

Raymond B. Vickers. 2004. Bank Secrecy Should be Ended: This Would Make the Financial System Safer. The Long View: A Journal of Informed Opinion
Daniel P. Mears. 2004. Identifying Adolescent Substance Abuse. Juvenile Drug Courts and Teen Substance Abuse
Gary Kleck. 2004. The Great American Gun Debate: What Research Has to Say. The Criminal Justice System: Politics and Policies (9th Edition)
William G. Doerner. 2004. Introduction to Law Enforcement: An Insider's View (2nd Edition)
Thomas G. Blomberg. 2004. Quality Education as a Turning Point in the Delinquent Life Course. Quality Research and Development in Social Care
Decker, Scott H., Jeffrey F. Rojek, and Eric P. Baumer. 2004. A Century - or more - of Homicide in St. Louis. St. Louis Metromorphosis: Past Trends and Future Directions
Daniel P. Mears, Jeremy Travis. 2004. Youth Development and Reentry. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice
Daniel P. Mears. 2004. Mental Health Needs and Services in the Criminal Justice System. Houston Journal of Health Law and Policy
Susan E. Burton, Matthew Finn, Debra Livingston, Kristen Scully, William D. Bales, Kathy Padgett. 2004. Applying a Crime Seriousness Scale to Measure Changes in the Severity of Offenses by Individuals Arrested in Florida. Justice Research and Policy
Birgit Maier-Katkin, Daniel Maier-Katkin. 2004. At the Heart of Darkness: Crimes Against Humanity and the Banality of Evil. Human Rights Quarterly
William G. Doerner, Ronald D. Hunter, Mark L. Dantzker. 2004. Participation Patterns at the 1998-2003 Southern Criminal Justice Association Annual Meetings. American Journal of Criminal Justice
Gary Kleck. 2004. Measures of Gun Ownership Levels for Macro-Level Crime and Violence Research. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
Eric A. Stewart, Kirk W. Elifson, Claire E. Sterk. 2004. Integrating the General Theory of Crime into an Explanation of Criminal Victimization Among Female Offenders. Justice Quarterly
Daniel P. Mears. 2003. A Critique of Waiver Research: Critical Next Steps in Assessing the Impacts of Laws for Transferring Juveniles to the Criminal Justice System. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice
Sarah Eschholz, Ted Chiricos, Marc Gertz. 2003. Television and Fear of Crime: Program Types, Audience Traits and the Mediating Effect of Perceived Neighborhood Racial Composition. Social Problems