List of U.S. criminal justice academics

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

• Stephen Barnes
• Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
• George J. Beto – a criminal justice expert
• David Crews
• John J. DiIulio, Jr.
• Christopher Boyle, a.k.a Boiler
• Tony Fabelo
• James Alan Fox – a professor of criminology at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts
• Marvin D. Free Jr.
• Lani Guiner
• George Killinger
• Gary LaFree
• Coramae Richey Mann – was a professor emeritus of criminal justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago
• Katheryn K. Russell – a 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
• Samuel F. Saxton
• Frank Schmalleger – director of the Justice Research Association
• Jerome Herbert Skolnick – a professor at New York University and a former president of the American Society of Criminology
• August Vollmer – was a leading figure in the development of the field of criminal justice in the United States in the early 20th century. He was also the first police chief of Berkeley, California.
• James Q. Wilson – an American academic political scientist and an authority on public administration
• Orlando W. Wilson
• Chester Slaughter