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

Ray Paternoster and Gordon P. Waldo. 2003. Tinkering with the Machinery of Death: Failure of a Social Experiment. Punishment and Social Control, Enlarged Second Edition
Alba, Richard D., John R. Logan and Brian J. Stults. 2003. Residential Inequality and Segregation in an Immigration Era: An Analysis of the Major Metropolitan Regions of the U.S.. Host Societies and the Reception of Immigrants
William G. Doerner, J. Christie Horton, and Jimmy L. Smith. 2003. The Field Training Officer (FTO) Program: A Case Study Approach. Police Training
Thomas G. Blomberg and Stanley Cohen. 2003. Punishment and Social Control: Essays in Honor of Sheldon L. Messinger, Enlarged Second Edition
Eric P. Baumer, Richard Rosenfeld, Steven F. Messner. 2003. Explaining Spatial Variation in Support for Capital Punishment: A Multi-Level Analysis. AMerican Journal of Sociology
Daniel P. Mears, Gretchen E. Moore, Jeremy Travis, Laura Winterfield. 2003. Strong Science for Strong Practice: Linking Research to Correctional Drug Treatment. Urban Institute
Daniel P. Mears. 2003. Research and Interventions to Reduce Domestic Violence Revictimization. Trauma, Violence & Abuse
Alisa Smith, Ted Chiricos. 2003. Structural Antecedents of Aggravated Assault: Exploratory Assessment of Female and Male Victimization. Violence and Victims
Scott D. Ryan, Laura Bedard, Marc Gertz. 2003. Florida's Gay Adoption Ban: What do Floridians Think?. University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy
Carter Hay. 2003. Family Strain, Gender, and Delinquency. Sociological Perspectives
William G. Doerner and Charles W. Rushing. 2002. Study Guide for the Florida Law Enforcement Officer's Certification Examination (2nd Edition)
William G. Doerner and Steven P. Lab. 2002. Victimology (3rd Edition)
Dix-Richardson, Felecia and Billy R. Close. 2002. Intersections of Race, Religion, and Inmate Culture: The Historical Development of Islam in American Corrections. Religion, the Community and the Rehabilitation of Criminal Offenders
Daniel P. Mears. 2002. The Ubiquity, Functions, and Contexts of Bullshitting. The Journal of Mundane Behavior
Mike Costelloe, Ted Chiricos, Marc Gertz, Jiri Burianek, Daniel Maier-Katkin. 2002. The Social Correlates of Punitiveness: Comparing an Established and an Emerging Democracy. The Justice System Journal