Welcome
The Chronicle of Higher Education lists the USF Criminology Department as among the top ten criminal justice and criminology Ph.D. programs in the nation in terms of faculty productivity. For full results and information regarding the productivity measure, click here.
The faculty and staff of the Department of Criminology at the University of South
Florida, Tampa campus, welcome you to our website. Please access the links shown
to learn more about us, the academic programs that we offer, and various activities
in which we are involved.
The Department of Criminology was established in 1972 , and began offering Master’s
degrees in 1974. In 1998, it became the second Department in the State of Florida
to offer the Ph.D. degree in Criminology.
The faculty consists of well-respected researchers who have contributed
to the study of juvenile justice and delinquency, policing, substance use and abuse,
macro-level models of criminal behavior, theoretical criminology, criminal ethnography,
victimology, and radical criminology.
The Department is committed to a liberal arts education, believing that this pedagogy
best prepares students for whatever choices they might make upon graduation. Accordingly,
faculty members are drawn from a number of social science and human service fields,
including, but not limited to, Sociology, criminology, Political Science, Public
Administration, Law, and Social Work. The faculty is dedicated to ensuring that
the perspectives of the academic criminologist, the criminal justice professional,
the offender, the victim, and society are each critically examined within an academic/scholarly
framework.