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

William E. Thornton, Jennifer James, and William G. Doerner. 1981. Delinquency and Justice
William G. Doerner. 1981. From Professor to Recruit to Rookie. Florida Police Chief
Gary Kleck. 1981. Racial Discrimination in Criminal Sentencing: A Critical Evaluation of the Evidence with Additional Evidence on the Death Penalty. American Sociological Review
Daniel Maier-Katkin. 1980. Foreward. Discretion and Lawlessness
William G. Doerner. 1980. The Impact of Existing State Compensation Laws. Proceedings of the Colloquium on Victim Compensation in North Carolina
Blomberg, Thomas G. . 1980. Widening the Net: An Anomaly in the Evaluation of Diversion Programs. Handbook of Criminal Justice Evaluation
Richard P. Kern, William D. Bales. 1980. Measuring the Severity of the Self-Reported Delinquency: The Development of a Seriousness Scale. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
Marc Gertz. 1980. The Impact of the Prosecutor-Public Defender Interaction on Sentencing: An Exploratory Typology. Criminal Justice Review
Gordon P. Waldo and David Griswold. 1979. Issues in the Measurement of Recidivism. The Rehabilitation of Criminal Offenders: Problems and Prospects
Ray Paternoster, Gordon P. Waldo, Ted Chiricos and Linda Anderson. 1979. The Stigma of Diversion: Labeling in the Juvenile Justice System. Courts and Diversion: Policy and Operations Studies
Ray Paternoster, Gordon P. Waldo, Ted Chiricos and Linda Anderson. 1979. The Stigma of Diversion: Labeling in the Juvenile Justice System. Courts and Diversion: Policy and Operations Studies
Ray Paternoster, Gordon P. Waldo, Ted Chiricos and Linda Anderson. 1979. The Stigma of Diversion: Labeling in the Juvenile Justice System. Courts and Diversion: Policy and Operations Studies
Brantingham, Patricia and Thomas G. Blomberg. 1979. Courts and Diversion: Policy and Operations Studies
William G. Doerner. 1979. The Violent World of Johnny Reb: An Attitudinal Analysis of the 'Regional Culture of Violence' Thesis. Sociological Forum
William G. Doerner. 1979. The Violent World of Johnny Reb: An Attitudinal Analysis of the 'Regional Culture of Violence' Thesis. Sociological Forum