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.

Marc Gertz. 1979. Modern Technology's Influence on Research Methods in the Social Sciences: The Special Case of Judicial Sentencing. Przestepczosc Na Swiecie
Thomas G. Blomberg, Sherry L. Caraballo. 1979. Accelerated Family Intervention in Juvenile Justice. Crime & Delinquency
John Gasper, Daniel Maier-Katkin. 1979. A Rationale for Abolition of the Juvenile Court's Power to Waive Jurisdiction. Pepperdine Law Review
Povl Boesen, Stanley Grupp, and Gordon P. Waldo. 1978. Corrections: Theory, Practice, and Research
William G. Doerner. 1978. Victim Compensation and Offender Restitution: Who's Kidding Whom?. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Southern Conference on Corrections
William G. Doerner. 1978. The Deadly World of Johnny Reb: Fact, Foible, or Fantasy?. Violent Crime: Historical and Contemporary Experiences
William G. Doerner and Anthony C. Meade. 1978. On Replication and the Implications of Findings of Nonlinearity in Crime Research. The New and the Old Criminology
Thomas G. Blomberg. 1978. Diversion from Juvenile Court: A Review of the Evidence. Juvenile Justice Philosophy (2nd Edition)
Thomas G. Blomberg. 1978. Social Control and the Proliferation of Juvenile Court Services
Bruce Bullington, James Sprowls, Daniel Maier-Katkin, Mark Phillips. 1978. A Critique of Diversionary Juvenile Justice. Crime & Delinquency
William G. Doerner. 1978. An Examination of the Alleged Latent Effects of Victim Compensation Programs Upon Crime Reporting. LAE Journal of the American Criminal Justice Association
William G. Doerner. 1978. A Quasi-Experimental Analysis of Selected Canadian Victim Compensation Programs. Canadian Journal of Criminology
William G. Doerner. 1978. The Index of Southernness Revisited: The Influence of Wherefrom Upon Whodunnit. Criminology
Danish, S., Daniel Maier-Katkin, and P. Katkin. 1977. A Manual for the Training of Police Juvenile Specialists
Ted Chiricos. 1977. Should the Southern Society Take Action on Political Issues?. The Southern Sociologist