He earned his Ph.D. in criminology, law and society from the University of Florida in 2008 and joined UCF's faculty in 2015. Nobles' research interests include violence and interpersonal crimes, neighborhood social ecology, criminological theory testing, and quantitative methods. His recent work has appeared in outlets including Justice Quarterly, the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Criminal Justice and Behavior, the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Crime & Delinquency, the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Aggression and Violent Behavior, and the American Journal of Public Health.