MARC G. GERTZ

Personal

Office:
College of Criminology and Criminal Justice
634 W. Call Street
The Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida 32306-1127
Phone: (850) 644-7382

Education

A.B. / 1968 / Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, Political Science
M.P.A. / 1971 / Baruch College, City University of New York
Ph.D. / 1976 / Department of Political Science, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
Examination fields: / Public Law/Judicial Process and Behavior, American Political Institutions, Political Behavior, Public Administration.
Dissertation: / "Organizational Politics in Felony Cases: Justice in Five Connecticut Courts." Committee: Professors George F. Cole, Fred Kort, and David Repass.

Employment

September 1996 to present / Professor, College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, The Florida State University
September 1981 to August 1996 / Associate Professor, School of Criminology, The Florida State University.
September 1976 to August 1981 / Assistant Professor, School of Criminology, The Florida State University.
September 1972 to May 1976 / Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science, The University of Connecticut.
June 1971 to February 1972 / Administrative Assistant to Village Manager, Village of Scarsdale, New York.
November 1970 to June 1971 / Senior Representative, New York State Narcotic Addiction Control Commission, White Plains, N.Y. Director, Drug Abuse Prevention Center.
September 1969 to October 1970 / Public Administration Intern, County of Westchester, White Plains, N.Y.

Teaching Areas

Public Law/Judicial Process and Behavior, Administration of Criminal Justice, Public Administration/Organization Theory, American Political Processes, Research Methods.

Courses Taught:

Undergraduate: “Introduction to the Courts,” “Introduction to Research Methods and Statistics,” “Juvenile Delinquency,” “Honors in Criminology: Democracy and the Courts,” “The Courts and Social Policy,” “Honors in Criminology: Criminal Justice: Law and Politics,” “Pride and Prejudice: Problems of Justice in an Inter-Racial Society,” “Diversity and Justice,” “Comparative Criminal Justice.”

Graduate: “Structure and Process of the American Court System,” “Introduction to Research Methods and Design,” “Crime, Deviance, and Control,” “Courts and Social Policy,” “Comparative Criminal Justice,” “Applied Statistics I,” ”Seminar in Advanced Research Methods.”

Doctoral Committees Supervised To Completion

Jerome Black McKean,Sources of Crime Among Metropolitan Areas (1983)

Byron Roger Johnson,Hellfire and Corrections: Quantitative Study of Florida Prison Inmates (1984)

Panya Maman,Bail in Thailand: A Cross-Cultural Study (1987)

Robert L. Bing,Plea Bargaining: An Analysis of the Empirical Evidence (1987)

Jimmy J. Williams,Courts and Politics: A Quantitative Analysis of Lawyers and Criminal Appeal Cases (1989)

Laura B. Myers,A Comparison of Legal and Extra-Legal Factors Affecting Criminal Court Decision-Making (1990)

Rudy Prine,A Search for Sentencing Uniformity: An Examination of Danish Jurisprudence (1995)

Detis Tyrone Duhart,Community Policing and the Fear of Crime: Assessment of the Essential Assumptions (1998)

Tomislav V. Kovandzic, Crime Prevention Through Selective Incapacitation: An Empirical Assessment of Florida's Habitual Offender Law (1999)

Matthew S. Crow, Florida’s Evolving Sentencing Policy: An Analysis of the Impact of Sentencing Guidelines Transformations (2005)

Catherine A. Jenks, American Exceptionalism: Public Opinion on Liberty as a Core American Value (2006)

Lindsey N. Devers, The Ethnic Typification of Crime and Support for Punitive Attitudes: An Exploratory Analysis of Arabs in Israel (2010)

Thomas R. Baker, Procedural Justice and Legitimacy and Perceptions of Obedience Among Female Inmates (2012)

Christie J. Wilson, Civil Liberties in Context: Perceived Threat and Commitment to Civil Liberties (2013)

Christi Metcalfe, To Plea or Not To Plea: The Role of the Courtroom Workgroup in Certain and Efficient Felony Case Processing (2014)

Wanda Leal, Is My Personality Your Problem? Examining the Effect of Personality on Drug Use and Criminal Involvement (2017)

Ashley Russell, In Search of an Attentive Public and Involvement in the Anti-Trafficking Movement (2017)

Research Interests

Public Opinion and the Criminal Justice System, Organization Politics and the Courts, Comparative Courts, Interest Groups and Voting Behavior.

Professional Organizations

American Association of Public Opinion Research

American Political Science Association

American Society of Criminology

American Society of Public Administration

Institute for Court Management

Law and Society Association

Publications

Mayer, Adam, Tara Shelley, Ted Chiricos, and Marc Gertz, “Environmental Risk Exposure, Risk Perception, Political Ideology, and Support for Climate Policy,” Sociological Focus (Forthcoming)

Gonzalez, Eva, Leah Butler, Nicole Collier, Alexa Singer, and Marc Gertz,”15 Years Later: Post 9/11 Support for Increased Security and Criminalizing Muslims,”Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice (Forthcoming)

Leal, Wanda, Marc Gertz, Nicky Piquero, Alex Piquero, “What Happens on the Field Stays on the Field: Exploring the Link Between Football Player Penalties and Criminal Arrests,” Deviant Behavior (Forthcoming)

Metcalfe, Christi, Scott Wolfe, Evelyn Gertz, and Marc Gertz, "They Protect Our Homeland but Neglect our Community: Homeland Security Overemphasis, Legitimacy, and Public Cooperation in Israel, "53 Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 814-839 (November 2016)

Roche, Sean, Justin Pickett, and Marc Gertz, “The Scary World of Online News? Internet News Exposure and Public Opinion about Criminal Justice,” 32 Journal of Quantitative Criminology 215-236 (June 2016)

Leal, Wanda, Marc Gertz, and Alex Piquero, “Are NFL Arrestees Violent Specialists or High Frequency Offenders or Both?” 37 Deviant Behavior 456-470 (April 2016)

Mancini, Christina, Thomas Baker, Karla, Dhungana, Kristin Golden, Laura Bedard, and Marc Gertz, “Examining External Support Received in Prison and Concerns about Reentry among Incarcerated Women,” 11 Feminist Criminology 163-190 (April 2016)

Stupi, Elizabeth, Ted Chiricos, and Marc Gertz, “Perceived Criminal Threat from Undocumented Immigrants: Antecedents and Consequences for Policy Preferences,” 33 Justice Quarterly 239-266 (May 2016)

Baker, Thomas, Cleary, H., Pickett, J., and Marc Gertz, “Crime Salience and Public Willingness to Pay for Child Saving and Juvenile Punishment,”62 Crime and

Delinquency 645-668 (2016)

Stewart, Eric, Ramiro Martinez, Eric Baumer, and Marc Gertz, “The Social Context of Latino Threat and Punitive Latino Sentiment,” 62Social Problems 68-92(2015)

Baker, Thomas, Christi Metcalfe, Tamar Berenblum, Gali Aviv, and Marc Gertz, “Examining Public Preferences for the Allocation of Resources to Rehabilitative Versus Punitive Crime Policies,” 26 Criminal Justice Policy Review 448-462 (2015)

Pickett, Justin, Christina Mancini, Dan Mears, and Marc Gertz,” Public (Mis)Understanding of Crime Policy: The Effects of Criminal Justice Experience and Media Reliance,” 26 Criminal Justice Policy Review 500-522 (2015)

Baker, Thomas, Justin Pickett, J. Amin, K. Dhungana, Marc Gertz, and Laura Bedard, “Shared Race/Ethnicity, Court Procedural Justice, and Self-Regulating Beliefs: A Study of Female Offenders,” 49 Law & Society Review433-466 (June 2015)

Leal, Wanda, Marc Gertz, and Alex Piquero, “The National Felon League? A Comparison of NFL Arrests to General Population Arrests,” 43 Journal of Criminal Justice397-403(2015)

Pickett, Justin, Thomas Baker, Christi Falco Metcalfe, Marc Gertz, and Laura Bedard, “Superficial Survey Choice: An Experimental Test of a Potential Method for Increasing Response Rates and Response Quality in Correctional Surveys,” 41Criminal Justice and Behavior 75-90 (2014)

Chiricos, Ted, Elizabeth Stupi, Brian Stults, and Marc Gertz, “Undocumented Immigrant Threat and Support for Social Controls,” 61Social Problems 673-692 (2014)

Pickett, Justin, Ted Chiricos, and Marc Gertz, “The Racial Foundations of Whites’ Support for Child Saving,” 44Social Science Research 44-59 (2014)

Pickett, Justin, Thomas Baker, Christi Metcalfe, Marc Gertz, and R. Bellandi, “Contact and Compromise: Explaining Support for Conciliatory Measures in the Context of Violent Intergroup Conflict,” 51 Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 585-619 (2014)

Baker, Thomas, W. Pelfrey, L. Bedard, K. Dhungana, M. Gertz, and K. Golden, “Female Inmates’ Procedural Justice Perceptions of the Police and Courts: Is There a Spill-Over of Police Effects?” 41 Criminal Justice and Behavior 144-162 (2014)

Pickett, Justin, Kelly Welch,Ted Chiricos, and Marc Gertz, “Racial Crime Stereotypes and Offender Juvenility Comparing Public Views about Youth-Specific and Nonyouth-Specific Sanctions,” 4 Race and Justice381-405 (2014)

Gajos, Jamie, Kevin Beaver, Marc Gertz, and Jason Bratton, “Public Opinion of Genetic and Neuropsychological Contributors to Criminal Involvement,” 25 Journal of Criminal Justice Education 368-385 (2014)

Mears, Daniel, Christina Mancini, Kevin Beaver, and Marc Gertz

“Housing for the “Worst of the Worst” Inmates: Public Support for Supermax Prisons,” 59 Crime and Delinquency 587-615 (2013)

Mears, Dan, Justin Pickett, Kristin, Lavin, Ted Chiricos, and Marc Gertz, “The Effect of Interracial Contact on Whites’ Perceptions of Victimization Risk and Black Criminality,” 50 Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 272-299 (2013)

Pickett,Justin, Dan Mears, Marc Gertz, and Eric Stewart, “Security at the Expense of Liberty: A Test of Predictions Deriving From the Culture of Control Thesis,” 59 Crime and Delinquency 214-242(March 2013)

Devers, Lindsey, Marc Gertz, Nicole Piquero, and Baruch Kraus, “The Ethnic Typification of Crime and Support for Punitive Attitudes: An Exploratory Analysis of Arabs in Israel,”10 Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice 245-266 (2012)

Chiricos, Ted, Kathy Padgett, Jake Bratton, Justin Pickett, and Marc Gertz, “Racial Threat and Opposition to the Re-Enfranchisement of Ex-Felons,” 1 International Journal of Criminology and Sociology 13 -28(2012)

Mondello, Michael, AlexPiquero, Nicole Piquero, Marc Gertz, and Jake Bratton, “Public Perceptions on Paying Student Athletes,” Sport and Society 1-14 (2012)

Warren, Patricia, Eric Stewart, Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, and Marc Gertz, “White’s Residential Preferences: Re-Assessing the Relevance of Criminal and Economic Stereotypes,” 2 Race and Justice 231-249 (2012)

Cole, George F. and Marc Gertz, The Criminal Justice System: Politics and Policies 10th Edition (Belmont, California: Wadsworth, 2012)

Baker, Thomas, Laura Bedard, and Marc Gertz, “The Unique Experience of Female Offenders,” in Cole and Gertz, The Criminal Justice System 10th Edition (2012)

Piquero, Alex, Nicole Piquero, Marc Gertz, Jason Bratton, and Thomas Loughran, “Sometimes Ignorance is Bliss: Investigating Citizen Perceptions of the Certainty and Severity of Punishment,”37 American Journal of Criminal Justice 630-646 (2012)

Pickett, Justin, Ted Chiricos, Kristin Lavin, and Marc Gertz, “Reconsidering the Relationship Between Perceived Neighborhood Racial Composition and Whites” Perceptions of Victimization Risk: Do Racial Stereotypes Matter?” 50 Criminology 145-186 (February 2012)

Shelley, Tara, Ted Chiricos, and Marc Gertz, “What about the Environment?: Assessing the Perceived Seriousness of Environmental Crime,” 35 International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice 305-323 (2011)

Piquero, Alex, Eric Stewart, Nicole Piquero, Jon Intravia, Marc Gertz, and Jason Bratton, “Investigating the Determinants of the Street Code and Its Relation to Offending Among Adults,” 37 American Journal of Criminal Justice 19-32 (2011)

Piquero, Alex, Nicole Piquero, Marc Gertz, Jason Bratton, and J.C. Barnes, “Race, Punishment, and the Michael Vick Experience,”92 Social Science Quarterly 535-551 (2011)

Richard Levy and Marc Gertz, “Is Dietary Practice Now in the Reform Mainstream?” in Mary Zamore (Ed.), The Sacred Table: Creating a Jewish Food Ethic (New York: CCAR Press, 2011)

Johnson, Brian, Eric Stewart, Justin Pickett, and Marc Gertz,

“Ethnic Threat and Social Control: Examining Public Support for Judicial Use of

Ethnicity in Punishment,” 49 Criminology441-442 (May 2011)

Piquero, Nicole, Marc Gertz and Jason Bratton, “Public Attitudes Toward Blame Worthiness and Control of the Mortgage Foreclosure Crisis,” in Matthew Deflem (Ed.), Economic Crisis and Crime (London, England: Emerald Group Publishing, 2011)

Kelly Welch, Allison Payne, Ted Chiricos, and Marc Gertz

“The Typification of Hispanics as Criminals and Support for Punitive Crime Control Policies,” 40 Social Science Research 822-840 (2011)

Mancini, Christina, Kelle Barrick, Julia Diponio, and Marc Gertz

“Taxation with Representation:Examining Public Fiscal Support for Diverse Correctional Policies,” 21 Criminal Justice Policy Review 76-97 (2010)

Kleck, Gary, Marc Gertz, and Jason Bratton

2009 “Why Do people Support Gun Control? Alternative Explanations of Support for Handgun Bans,” Journal of Criminal Justice 37: 496-504 (September/October)

Crow, Matthew and Marc Gertz

2009 “Legal and Democratic Subcultures: Understanding How the Law and Political Forces Shape Criminal Sentencing,” in G.L. Mays and K.L. Manning (Eds.), Courts and Justice: A Reader 3rd Edition (Long Grove, Il.: Waveland Press)

Costelloe, Mike, Ted Chiricos, and Marc Gertz

2009 “Punitive Attitudes Towards Criminals: Exploring the Relevance of Crime Salience and Economic Insecurity”

Punishment and Society 11:25-49 (January)

Crow, Matthew and Marc Gertz

2008 “Sentencing Policy and Disparity: Guidelines and the Influence of Legal

and Democratic Cultures,” Journal of Criminal Justice 36: 362-371

Tittle, Charles, Lisa Broidy, and Marc Gertz

2008 “Strain, Crime, and Contingencies,” Justice Quarterly 25:283-312

Mears, Daniel, Christina Mancini, Marc Gertz, and Jason Bratton

2008 “Sex Crimes, Children, and Pornography: Public Views and Public

Policy,” Crime and Delinquency 54:532-559 (October)

Holtfreder, Kristy, Shanna Van Slyke, Marc Gertz, and Jason Bratton

2008 “Public Perceptions of White-Collar Crime and Punishment,” Journal of Criminal Justice 36:50-60 (March)

Reisig, Michael, Jason Bratton, & Marc Gertz

2007 “The Construct Validity and Refinement of Process-Based Policing

Measures,” Criminal Justice and Behavior 34:1005-1028 (August)

Mears, Daniel, Carter Hay, Marc Gertz, and Christina Mancini

2007 “Public Opinion and the Foundation of the Juvenile Court,”

Criminology 45:223-257 (February)

Ryan, Scott, Laura Bedard & Marc Gertz

2006 “The Influence of Gender on the Placement of Children with Gay or Lesbian Adoptive Parents.” Journal of GLBT Family Studies 3:15-34

Welch, Kelly, Jason Bratton & Marc Gertz

2006 “Racial Profiling: The Link between Equality of Treatment and Satisfaction with Police Protection.” Law Enforcement Executive Forum 5:15-23.

Hogan, Mike, Ted Chiricos & Marc Gertz

2005 “Economic Insecurity, Blame and Punitive Attitudes.” Justice Quarterly 22:392-411.

Kleck, Gary, Brion Sever, Spencer Li & Marc Gertz

2005 “The Missing Link in General Deterrence Research.” Criminology 43:623-660.

Prine, Rudy & Marc Gertz

2005 “The Elusive Search for Uniform Sentencing: A Look at Denmark and Scotland.” In Fields and Moore (Eds.), Comparative and International Criminal Justice: Traditional And Nontraditional Systems Of Law And Control. Long Grove, Ill.: Waveland Press.

George F. Cole, Marc Gertz & Amy Bunger (Eds.)

2005 The Criminal Justice System: Politics and Policies (9th Edition). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

Chiricos, Ted, Kelly Welch & Marc Gertz

2004  “Racial Typification of Crime and Support for Punitive Measures.” Criminology 42:359-389.

Reprinted in Crime and Criminal Justice, William T. Lyons (Ed.), Aldershot, Hampshire, U.K. (Ashgate Publishing 2006).

Ryan, Scott D., Laura Bedard, Marc Gertz

2004 “Florida’s Gay Adoption Ban: What Do Floridians Think?” Journal of Law and Public Policy 15:261-283.

Crow, Matthew, Tara Shelley, Laura Bedard & Marc Gertz

2004 “Czech Police Officers: An Exploratory Study of Police Attitudes in an Emerging Democracy.” Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management 27:592-614.