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.

Criminal justice academics

Persons notable for accomplishments in the field of criminal justice

• Stephen Barnes
• George J. Beto – criminal justice expert
• Christopher Boyle, a.k.a. Boiler
• David Crews
• John J. DiIulio, Jr.
• Tony Fabelo
• James Alan Fox – professor of criminology at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts
• Marvin D. Free Jr.
• Sanford Kadish
• George Killinger
• 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
• Samuel F. Saxton
• Frank Schmalleger – director of the Justice Research Association
• Jerome Herbert Skolnick – professor at New York University and a former president of the American Society of Criminology
• Chester Slaughter
• Lisa M. Storm – professor of criminal justice and affordable textbook author, lulu.com
• August Vollmer – a 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

• Joseph R. Biden, Jr. – notable primarily for his political career
• Lani Guiner – notable for her scholarship in civil rights