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.

Ted Chiricos and Charles Crawford. 1995. Race and Imprisonment: A Contextual Assessment of the Evidence. Ethnicity, Race & Crime
Thomas G. Blomberg. 1995. Beyond Metaphors: Penal Reform as Net-Widening. Punishment and Social Control: Essays in Honor of Sheldon L. Messinger
Thomas G. Blomberg and Stanley Cohen. 1995. Punishment and Social Control: Essays in Honor of Sheldon L. Messinger
Daniel Maier-Katkin, S. Stemmler, P. Stretesky. 1995. Immigration and the Emergence of Right-Wing Violence in Unified Germany. Crime, Law, and Social Change
Daniel Maier-Katkin, P. Stretsky. 1995. Special Issue: Hate Crimes in Germany and America. Crime, Law, and Social Change
Melissa Barlow, David Barlow, Ted Chiricos. 1995. Economic Conditions and Ideologies of Crime in the Media: A Content Analysis of Crime News. Crime & Delinquency
Robbin S. Ogle, Daniel Maier-Katkin, Thomas J. Bernard. 1995. A Theory of Homicidal Behavior Among Women. Criminology
Melissa Hickman Barlow, David E. Barlow, Ted Chiricos. 1995. Mobilizing Support for Social Control in a Declining Economy: Ideologies of Crime Within Crime News. Crime & Delinquency
William G. Doerner. 1995. Officer Retention Patterns: An Affirmative Action Concern for Police Agencies?. American Journal of Police
Marc Gertz. 1995. Exploring Sentences in Three European Cities. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
Marc G. Gertz, Leroy C. Gould. 1995. Fear of Punishment and the Willingness to Engage in Criminal Behavior. Journal of Criminal Justice
Gary Kleck, Marc Gertz. 1995. Armed Resistance to Crime: The Prevalence and Nature of Self-Defense with a Gun. Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology
Marc Gertz, Laura Bedard, W. Persons. 1995. Hispanic Perceptions of Youth Gangs: A Descriptive Exploration. Journal of Gang Research
Gary Kleck. 1995. Using Speculation to Meet Evidence. Journal of Quantitative Criminology
Gary Kleck. 1995. Guns and Violence: An Interpretive Review of the Field. Social Pathology