Be inspired.
Read about the research opportunities available to graduate students and learn about a few of the students involved in those projects.
The College's faculty members are experts in a wide range of criminological research areas. Find an area that sparks your curiosity to pursue more knowledge. For a complete list of faculty research areas, visit the faculty section.
- community re-entry of offenders
- community policing
- comparative and international criminal justice
- corrections
- courts
- organizational crime
- crimes against humanity
- criminal law
- criminal justice
- death penalty
- delinquency
- developmental and life course theory
- deterrence
- drugs and alcohol
- ecology of crime
- gender and crime
- genetic/biological correlates of crime
- gun control
- historical sociology of crime control policy
- infanticide
- information technology and criminal justice
- juvenile justice
- law enforcement
- law and social control
- the media and crime
- Native American justice
- neighborhoods and crime
- organizational politics and the courts
- parenting- and family-related causes of adolescent crime
- public opinion and the criminal justice system
- punishment strategies
- race, class, crime, and justice
- residential segregation and crime
- self-control and crime
- stability of violent behaviors
- theories of crime causation
- victimology
- violence
- white-collar crime
Xia Wang
Ph.D. Student and Research Assistant
Hometown: Shanxi, China
Current Research: The effect of social context on prisoner reentry, corporate crime
“What I enjoy and appreciate the most about the FSU criminology PhD program is being able to work with professors on research projects and publications. I have had the opportunity to join faculty on social ecology and prisoner reentry research projects. I have also been helped and encouraged by professors to develop my own research ideas into potential publications, such as my ongoing collaboration with a professor on a corporate crime paper. When working with faculty, I am constantly challenged and inspired to be a good researcher. It is absolutely a rewarding experience.”