List of U.S. criminal justice academics explained

The following is a list of notable academics within the field of criminal justice in the United States.

Criminal justice academics

Persons notable for accomplishments in the field of criminal justice

• George J. Beto criminal justice expert^[1]
• Michael T. Cahill Dean of Brooklyn Law School
• John J. DiIulio, Jr.
• James Alan Fox professor of criminology at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts
  • Sanford Kadish Gary LaFree
• Coramae Richey Mann professor emeritus of criminal justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago
• Katheryn K. Russell professor of law and director of the Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations at University of Florida's Fredric G. Levin College of Law
• Louis B. Schwartz (1913-2003), law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
• Frank Schmallegerdirector of the Justice Research Association
• Jerome Herbert Skolnick professor at New York University and a former president of the American Society of Criminology
• August Vollmer leading figure in the development of the field of criminal justice in the United States in the early 20th century; first police chief of Berkeley, California
• James Q. Wilson academic political scientist and an authority on public administration
• Orlando W. Wilson

Persons notable for accomplishments outside criminal justice

• Joe Biden notable primarily for his political career
• Lani Guiner notable for her scholarship in civil rights

Notes and References

1. "Beto, George John." Handbook of Texas. Accessed December 2011.