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.

Thomas G. Blomberg. 1977. Diversion and Accelerated Social Control. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
Thomas G. Blomberg. 1977. The Juvenile Court as an Organization and Decision Making System. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
Theodore G. Chiricos, Gordon P. Waldo. 1977. Reply to Greenberg, Hopkins & Reasons. American Sociological Review
Linda S. Anderson, Ted Chiricos, Gordon P. Waldo. 1977. Formal and Informal Sanctions: A Comparison of Deterrent Effects. Social Problems
Linda S. Anderson, Ted Chiricos, Gordon P. Waldo. 1977. Formal and Informal Sanctions: A Comparison of Deterrent Effects. Social Problems
Gordon P. Waldo, Ted Chiricos. 1977. An Empirical Evaluation of a Social Policy: Work Release & Recidivism. Evaluation Review
Marc Gertz. 1977. Influence in Court Systems: The Clerk as Interface. The Justice System Journal
Marc G. Gertz, Susette M. Talarico. 1977. Problems of Reliability and Validity in Criminal Justice Research. Journal of Criminal Justice
Daniel Maier-Katkin. 1976. Delinquency and the Juvenile Justice System
Marc Gertz. 1976. Instructor's Manual: The American System of Criminal Justice
Richard D. Knudten, Anthony C. Meade, Mary S. Knudten, and William G. Doerner. 1976. The Victim in the Administration of Criminal Justice: Problems and Perceptions. Criminal Justice and the Victim
Daniel Maier-Katkin, J. Kramer, D. Hyman. 1976. Three Models of Juvenile Justice. Criminal Law Bulletin
A. C. Meade, M. S. Knudten, W. G. Doerner, R. D. Knudten. 1976. Discovery of a Forgotten Party: Trends in Crime Victim Compensation Legislation in the United States. Victimology
W. G. Doerner, M. S. Knudten, R. D. Knudten, A. C. Meade. 1976. An Analysis of Victim Compensation Programs As a Time-Series Experiment. Victimology
William G. Doerner, Richard D. Knudten, Anthony C. Meade, Mary S. Knudten. 1976. Correspondence Between Crime Victim Needs and Available Public Services. Social Service Review