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.

Gary Kleck and Bethany Mims. 2017. Article productivity among the faculty of criminology and criminal justice doctoral programs, 2010-2014. Journal of Criminal Justice Education 28(4):467-487
Wesche, Rose, Eva S. Lefkowitz, Derek A. Kreager, and Sonja E. Siennick. 2017. Early sexual initiation and mental health: A fleeting association or enduring change?. Journal of Research on Adolescence 27(3):611-62
Sonja E. Siennick, Alex O. Widdowson, Mathew Woessner, Mark E. Feinberg, and Richard L. Spoth. 2017. Risk factors for substance misuse and adolescents’ symptoms of depression. Journal of Adolescent Health 60(1): 50-56
Sonja E. Siennick, Alex O. Widdowson, and Daniel T. Ragan. 2017. New students’ peer integration and exposure to deviant peers: Spurious effects of school moves?. Journal of Early Adolescence 37(9): 1254-1279
Sonja E. Siennick and Alex O. Widdowson. 2017. Incarceration and financial dependency during and after "youth". Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology 3(4): 397-418
Ryon, Stephanie B., Ted Chiricos, Sonja E. Siennick, William D. Bales, and Kelle Barrick. 2017. Sentencing in light of collateral consequences: Does age matter?. Journal of Criminal Justice 53:1-11
Carter Hay, Ryan C. Meldrum, Alex O. Widdowson, and Alex R. Piquero. 2017. Early Aggression and Later Delinquency: Considering the Redirecting Role of Good Parenting. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice
Ruback, R.B., Gladfelter, A.S., & Brendan Lantz. 2017. Hate Crime Victimization Data in Pennsylvania: A Useful Complement to the UCR. Violence & Victims. (In press)
Gladfelter, A.S., Brendan Lantz, & Ruback, R.B. 2017. The Complexity of Hate: Variations across Contexts and Types of Bias. Justice Quarterly, 34(1): 55-83
Jillian Turanovic. 2017. Juvenile Victimization. Encyclopedia of Juvenile Delinquency and Justice
Daniel P. Mears, Joshua C. Cochran, William D. Bales, and Avinash S. Bhati. 2016. Recidivism and Time Served in Prison. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 106(1):83-124
Elizabeth Stupi, Ted Chiricos and Marc Gertz. 2016. Perceived criminal threat from undocumented immigrants: Antecedents and consequences for policy preferences. Justice Quarterly 33:239-266
Gary Kleck. 2016. Large-capacity magazines and the casualty counts in mass shootings: the plausibility of linkages. Justice Research and Policy 17:28-47
Gary Kleck and Dylan Jackson. 2016. What kind of joblessness affects crime? A national case-control study of serious property crime. Journal of Quantitative Criminology 32:489-513
Widdowson, Alex O., Sonja E. Siennick, Carter Hay. 2016. The Implications of Arrest for College Enrollment: An Analysis of Long-Term Effects and Mediating Mechanisms. Criminology 54:621-652