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.

Ted Chiricos, Gordon P. Waldo. 1970. Punishment and Crime: An Examination of Some Empirical Evidence. Social Problems
Gordon P. Waldo and Ted Chiricos. 1970. Developmental Problems in a Regional Data System for Corrections. Criminology
Gordon P. Waldo. 1970. The 'Criminality Level' of Incarcerated Murderers and Non-Murderers. The Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Political Science
Gordon P. Waldo, Nason E. Hall. 1970. Delinquency Potential and Attitudes Toward the Criminal Justice System. Social Forces
Matthew S. Crow, Tara O'Connor Shelley, Laura Bedard, Marc Gertz. 197. Czech Police Officers: An Exploratory Study of Police Attitudes in an Emerging Democracy. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management
Gordon P. Waldo. 1969. The Dilemma of Correctional Research. American Journal of Corrections
Gordon P. Waldo. 1969. Research in Correctional Education. Journal of Correctional Education
Gordon P. Waldo, Nason Hall. 1967. Remedial Reading for the Disadvantaged. Journal of Reading
Gordon P. Waldo, Simon Dinitz. 1967. Personality Attributes of the Criminal: An Analysis of Research Studies, 1950-1965. Journal of Research in Crime and Deliquency
Ted Chiricos. 1967. A Developmental Analysis of the Theory of Differential Association. Issues in Criminology
Nason E. Hall, Gordon P. Waldo. 1967. School Identification and Delinquency Proneness. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
Eric A. Stewart, Christopher J. Schreck, and Ronald L. Simons. 2006. "I Ain't Gonna Let no one Disrespect Me": Does the Code of the Street Reduce or Increase Violent Victimization Among African American Adolescents?. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
Pratt, Travis C. and Jillian Turanovic. Going Back to the Beginning: Crime as a Process. When Crime Appears: The Role of Emergence