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
 * George J. Beto – criminal justice expert
 * 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 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
 * 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