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.

Raymond B. Vickers. 1994. Panic in Paradise: Florida's Banking Crash of 1926
Eric Baumer. 1994. Poverty, Crack, and Crime: A Cross-City Analysis. Journal of Research in Crime & Delinquency
Leroy C. Gould, Marc Gertz. 1994. Race and Gender Effects on Perception of Criminal Events: Testing Hypotheses from Black's The Behavior of Law. Journal of Correctional Education
Laura Bedard, Sarah Eschholz, Marc Gertz. 1994. Perceptions of Crime and Education Within the Hispanic Community and the Impact on Corrections. Journal of Correctional Education
Laura Bedard, Rudy Prine, Marc Gertz. 1994. Hispanic Perceptions of Crime and Delinquency: A Contemporary Description. Latino Studies Journal
Daniel Maier-Katkin, R. Ogle. 1993. A Rationale for Infanticide Laws. The Criminal Law Review
Thomas G. Blomberg, William D. Bales, Karen Reed. 1993. Intermediate Punishment Through Home Confinement: Redistributing or Extending Social Control?. Crime, Law and Social Change
David E. Barlow, Melissa Hickman Barlow, Ted Chiricos. 1993. Long Economic Cycles and the Criminal Justice System in the United States. Crime, Law and Social Change
Marc Gertz, Rudy Prine. 1993. DUI Policy: Can the U.S. Learn from Scandinavia?. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
Gary Kleck, E. Britt Patterson. 1993. The Impact of Gun Control and Gun Ownership Levels on Violence Rates. Journal of Quantitative Criminology
Gary Kleck. 1993. Bad Data and the 'Evil Empire'': Interpreting Poll Data on Gun Control. Violence and Victims
Gary Kleck, Miriam A. DeLone. 1993. Victim Resistance and Offender Weapon Effects in Robbery. Journal of Quantitative Criminology
William G. Doerner. 1992. Introduction to Law Enforcement: An Insider's View
M. J. Lynch, J. Huey, J. S. Nunez, Billy R. Close, C. Johnston. 1992. Cultural Literacy, Criminology and Female Gender Issues: The Power to Exclude. Journal of Criminal Justice Education
M. J. Lynch, J. Huey, J. S. Nunez, Billy R. Close, C. Johnston. 1992. Cultural Literacy, Criminology and Female Gender Issues: The Power to Exclude. Journal of Criminal Justice Education