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List of the most influential people in Criminal Justice,

#101

Graeme Newman

#101871

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Graeme R. Newman is an American scholar of criminal justice and Distinguished Teaching Professor at University at Albany. He is a recipient of J. Francis Finnegan Memorial Prize in Criminology. Newman is the vice president of Center for Problem Oriented Policing and pioneered the establishment of the United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network. He is known for his research on crime prevention.

#102

Sandra Walklate

#92173

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Sandra Walklate is a British criminologist. She is the Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology at the University of Liverpool and President of the British Society of Criminology. In January 2014, she became the Editor in Chief of The British Journal of Criminology.

#103

Anne Piehl

#93536

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Anne Morrison Piehl is an American economist and criminologist. She is a professor of economics at Rutgers University, the director of Rutgers' Program in Criminal Justice, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She joined Rutgers as an associate professor in 2005, and became a full professor there in 2012. Also in 2012, she became a fellow of the IZA Institute of Labor Economics. In 2020, she was named to the James Cullen Chair in Economics, where she will serve a five-year term. She served on the New Jersey Committee on Government Efficiency and Reform Correct...

#104

Salvatore J. Stolfo

Salvatore J. Stolfo

#38830

Overall Influence

Salvatore J. Stolfo is an academic and professor of computer science at Columbia University, specializing in computer security. Early life Born in Brooklyn, New York, Stolfo received a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Brooklyn College in 1974. He received his Ph.D. from NYU Courant Institute in 1979 and has been on the faculty of Columbia ever since, where he's taught courses in Artificial Intelligence, Intrusion and Anomaly Detection Systems, Introduction to Programming, Fundamental Algorithms, Data Structures, and Knowledge-Based Expert Systems.

#105

Candice DeLong

#53694

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Candice DeLong is an American former FBI criminal profiler and bestselling author. DeLong was the lead profiler in San Francisco, California, and worked on the Unabomber case. Currently, she hosts the Investigation Discovery programs Deadly Women and Facing Evil with Candice DeLong, the Wondery podcast Killer Psyche, and the Discovery+ program The Deadly Type with Candice DeLong.

#106

Travis Pratt

#82376

Overall Influence

Travis Cameron Pratt is an American criminologist and fellow at the University of Cincinnati Corrections Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed papers on topics such as prison policy and theoretical criminology. He is particularly known for his research on private prisons.

#107

Steven M. Bellovin

Steven M. Bellovin

#3633

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Steven M. Bellovin is a researcher on computer networking and security who has been a professor in the computer science department at Columbia University since 2005. Previously, Bellovin was a fellow at AT&T Labs Research in Florham Park, New Jersey.

#108

Per-Olof H. Wikström

#85449

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Per-Olof Helge Wikstrӧm is Professor of Ecological and Developmental Criminology at the University of Cambridge, Professorial Fellow of Girton College and Principal Investigator of the Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study , a major ESRC funded longitudinal study of young people in the UK which aims to advance knowledge about crime causation and prevention. His main research interests are developing a unified theory of the causes of crime , testing it empirically and applying it to devising knowledge-based prevention policies. His work is internationally acknowledged, as d...

#109

Catrien Bijleveld

#75043

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Catharina Christina Johanna Hermina "Catrien" Bijleveld is a Dutch criminologist. She is a professor of Research Methods in Criminology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Since August 2014 she is director of the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement.

#110

Menachem Amir

#87900

Overall Influence

1930 - 2015 (85 years)

Menachem Amir is an Israeli criminologist. He spent most of his career as a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he was the Benjamin Berger Chair Professor of Criminology until he retired in 1999. Amir received the Israel Prize from the Israeli government in 2003 for his work, one of the first two criminologists to do so alongside Shlomo Giora Shoham.

#111

Manuel Eisner

#97752

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Manuel Eisner is Wolfson Professor of Criminology at the University of Cambridge, and Deputy Director of the Cambridge Institute of Criminology. He researches the history of interpersonal violence, and has conducted a study on levels of homicide throughout Europe over a period of 800 years. His research has highlighted the ways in which cultural models of conduct of life, embedded in social institutions, have shaped patterns of daily behaviour among adolescent and young adult men, which in turn have influenced the likelihood of frictions leading to aggressive behaviour. He is also recognised f...

#112

Ben Bowling

#64546

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Benjamin Bowling is Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice at King's College London, an author and an honorary psychotherapist. He is a recipient of the Radzinowicz Memorial Prize awarded for the best article in the British Journal of Criminology in 1999. Bowling was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2022.

#113

Susanne Karstedt

#62370

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Susanne Karstedt is a German criminologist. She is a professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia. Biography A native of Germany, Kartstedt trained in sociology at the University of Hamburg. Prior to joining Griffith University, she held positions at the University of Leeds, Keele University, Bielefield University, and the University of Hamburg.

#114

John Winterdyk

#91541

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

John Winterdyk is a Canadian criminology professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta. He is the university's Centre for Criminology and Justice Research chair. He has spent much time in Sub-Saharan Africa studying local beliefs about violence and honour. He was the first person to receive a PhD in Criminology from the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University. He later served as visiting scholar to the Max Planck Society in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. In 2010, Winterdyk conducted a study with fellow Mount Royal University professor Kelly Sundberg as well as with scholars...

#115

David Klinger

#90046

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

David Ames Klinger is an American criminologist and former police officer. He is Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, as well as a senior research fellow at the Police Foundation.

#116

Marc Gertz

#58703

Overall Influence

Marc G. Gertz is an American criminologist and professor at the Florida State University College of Criminology and Criminal Justice. His research includes an influential 1995 survey he conducted with his Florida State University colleague, Gary Kleck, on the frequency of defensive gun use.

#117

David Gordon Scott

#34109

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

David Gordon Scott is a British criminologist, abolitionist and author. He is a criminologist at The Open University in Milton Keynes. Scott's research interests span the field of criminology, particularly focusing on socialist ethics, abolitionism, social harm, liberative justice, harms of capitalist states, and state-corporate harm.

#118

Randy Borum

#41637

Overall Influence

Randy Borum is a professor and coordinator of strategy and intelligence studies in the school of information at the University of South Florida and has taught at USF since 1999. He is author/coauthor of approximately 160 professional publications, has worked with three Directors of National Intelligence on the Intelligence Science Board , served on the Defense Science Board Task Force on Understanding Human Dynamics, and is an instructor with the Bureau of Justice Assistance State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training Programs for Investigations and Intelligence.

#119

Etannibi Alemika

#17069

Overall Influence

Etannibi Alemika is a professor of Criminology and the Sociology of Law at the University of Jos. In August 2015, he was one of seven individuals appointed to a newly formed anti-corruption board organized by President Muhammadu Buhari. His most widely cited article is titled Policing and Perceptions of Police in Nigeria, which was published in 1988.

#120

Marvin Krohn

#87924

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Marvin Donald "Marv" Krohn is an American criminologist who has been a professor at the University of Florida since 2008. He was formerly the director of the Division of Criminology, Law and Society there until 2011.

#121

David H. Bayley

#70447

Overall Influence

1933 - 2020 (87 years)

David H. Bayley was an American political scientist who taught at the University of Denver and the State University of New York at Albany. He was dean of SUNY Albany's School of Criminal Justice from 1995-2004 and was Distinguished Professor Emeritus. He authored 18 books, and he became a "policing research pioneer." Bayley was described in 2015 as “America’s principal, most respected and longest serving policing expert at-large and the world’s preeminent scholar of international policing studies.”

#122

Gilbert Geis

#94543

Overall Influence

1925 - 2012 (87 years)

Gilbert Lawrence Geis was an American criminologist known for his research on white-collar crime. He is particularly recognized for his paper "The Heavy Electric Equipment Antitrust Case of 1961", originally published in the 1967 book Criminal Behavior Systems: A Typology.

#123

Lee E. Ross

#101074

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Lee E. Ross is an African-American criminologist and author of articles and books that address issues of domestic violence and topics related to race, crime, and justice. Life Ross was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, but his parents eventually relocated to Hempstead, New York. Upon graduating Hempstead High School, he attended Niagara University in Niagara Falls, New York. There, he earned a bachelor's degree in criminal justice before receiving the Patricia Roberts Harris Fellowship to pursue graduate studies at Rutgers University where he earned his masters and doctorate in criminology. Ross also spent seven years as a federal law enforcement officer with the United States Customs Service.

#124

Cindy Fazey

#24551

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Cindy Fazey is a criminologist and former Chief of Demand Reduction for the United Nations Drug Control Programme. She has been Professor of International Drug Policy at the University of Liverpool since 1998. Fazey has spoken in the past of "the complete failure of national and international drugs policies." She has also noted that the organization of the international drug control apparatus makes it difficult to reform the system. On 24 February 2004, Fazey gave a speech at the Perspective on Cannabis conference at Liverpool titled Can you hear the grass growing? Cannabis and the repatriatio...

#125

Geoffrey Alpert

#69257

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Geoffrey Philip Alpert is a professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of South Carolina. Education Alpert received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Oregon in 1969 and 1970, respectively. For one year he attended the University of Oregon School of Law. In 1975, he received his Ph.D. from Washington State University.

#126

Ronald Weitzer

#36087

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Ronald Weitzer is an American sociologist specializing in criminology and a professor at George Washington University, known for his publications on police-minority relations and on the sex industry.

#127

Frank Vitaro

#113332

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

#128

Janet Lauritsen

#88736

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Janet Lynn Lauritsen is an American criminologist and the Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Education and career Dr. Lauritsen received her B.A. , M.A. , and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After serving as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Illinois , she joined the Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri-St. Louis as an Assistant Professor in 1990. She was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 1996 as well as to full Professor in 2002.

#129

William Doerner

#97796

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

William G. Doerner is a professor in the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University. His research has covered topics such as criminal justice, delinquency, law enforcement, police management and procedures, and victimology.

#130

Louise Shelley

#41484

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Louise Isobel Shelley is a university professor and Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Endowed Chair at the Schar School of Policy and International Affairs at George Mason University in Virginia. She is also founder and executive director of the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center .

#131

Mariana Valverde

#60056

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Mariana Valverde is a Canadian criminologist and sociologist. She is currently a professor in the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto. Her research mainly focuses on the sociology of law. She is also an occasional contributor to Spacing magazine.

#132

Stuart Henry

#89355

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Stuart Henry is professor emeritus, Criminal justice and former director of the School of Public Affairs, San Diego State University . He has also been visiting professor of criminology at the University of Kent's School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research from 2008 to 2013 and visiting research scholar in sociology at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, 2017.

#133

Somesh Jha

#116331

Overall Influence

#134

Kerry Carrington

#69564

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Kerry Lyn Carrington is an Australian criminologist, and an adjunct professor at the School of Law and Society at the University of the Sunshine Coast . She formerly served as head of the QUT School of Justice for 11 years from 2009 to 2021. She was editor-in-chief of the International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. She is known for her work on gender and violence, feminist criminology, southern criminology, youth justice and girls' violence, and global justice and human rights.

#135

Letizia Paoli

#79897

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Letizia Paoli is a criminologist, originally from Prato. Since 2006 she has been a professor of the Law Faculty at Leuven/Louvain University. She served, between 2009 and 2016, as chair of the sometimes troubled "Freiburg Sports Medicine Commission" at Freiburg University.

#136

Nestor Courakis

Nestor Courakis

#40639

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Nestor Courakis is Emeritus Professor of Criminology and Penology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Law and a full-time Professor at the University of Nicosia. Born May 21, 1947 in Athens he attended the Law Faculty, University of Athens , Law Faculty, University of Freiburg/Germany , Law Faculty, Panthéon-Assas University , Paris Institute of Criminology ; research work at Max-Planck Institute of Foreign and International Criminal Law 1978-80.

#137

Terence Thornberry

#114179

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Terence Patrick Thornberry is an American criminologist who has been a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland since 2012. Before he joined the faculty of the University of Maryland in 2009, he was a professor of sociology at the University of Colorado and the director of their Problem Behavior Program from 2004 to 2009. Before that, he was a professor at the University at Albany, SUNY from 1984 to 2001, and a Distinguished Professor there from 2001 to 2004. He served as the dean of the University at Albany, SUNY Sc...

#138

Bruce Budowle

#117917

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

#139

David McDowall

#76873

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

David McDowall is an American criminologist and distinguished teaching professor in the School of Criminal Justice at University at Albany, SUNY, where he is also co-director of the Violence Research Group. Educated at Portland State University and Northwestern University, he taught at the University of Maryland, College Park from 1990 until joining the University at Albany in 1996. He has published a number of studies pertaining to gun violence in the United States.

#140

William Spelman

#105706

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

William Spelman is a professor of public affairs at the University of Texas at Austin's Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. He is an expert on urban policy and criminal justice policy. Education Spelman received an A.B. in political science from UCLA in 1977, an M.P.P. from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1984, and a Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University in 1988.

#141

Sanford Kadish

#40734

Overall Influence

1921 - 2014 (93 years)

Sanford "Sandy" H. Kadish was an American criminal law scholar and theorist. He specialised in criminology and criminal law theory, and was one of the drafters of the American Model Penal Code. Biography Sanford Harold Kadish was born in 1921 in New York City, and grew up in the Bronx. He graduated from City College of New York, Phi Beta Kappa, and then attended a Japanese language school in Colorado.

#142

Edwin Bakker

#82327

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Edwin Bakker is head of the knowledge and research department of the Netherlands Police Academy and professor of Terrorism Studies at Leiden University. Biography Bakker was born on 20 October 1967 in Leiden, in the Netherlands.

#143

Joanna Shapland

#86247

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Joanna Shapland was born in 1950. She earned her B.A. from St. Hilda’s College, which was promoted to an M.A. She went on to earn a diploma in criminology from Darwin College before earning a PhD from Wolfson College. She has spent her career studying victimology and victimisation, exploring the restorative justice approaches employed by police officers and crime reduction programs, and engaging in longitudinal research into the life choices of adult offenders in their early twenties. Her efforts have yielded critically important insights into effective practices for restorative justice. She h...

#144

Peter Reuter

#89798

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

#145

Michelle Harvey

#89935

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Michelle Louise Harvey is an Australian forensic scientist specialising in forensic entomology . Her research uses insect DNA to identify maggots, which helps in estimating the time since death. Harvey has published widely on her research and been a guest speaker at many conferences. She is active in the promotion of science through public speaking engagements and the media.

#146

Lorraine Mazerolle

Lorraine Mazerolle

#112222

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Lorraine Green Mazerolle is an Australian criminologist and professor at the School of Social Science at the University of Queensland, where she is also an affiliate professor at the Institute for Social Science Research. She is also a chief investigator in the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course, as well as a former Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow. She is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Experimental Criminology. She is also a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Academy of Experimental Criminology.

#147

Ted Chiricos

#97495

Overall Influence

1942 - 2022 (80 years)

Ted Chiricos was an American criminologist and the William Julius Wilson Professor of Criminology at Florida State University. Early life and education Chiricos received a bachelor in Sociology from Merrimack College in 1963, a masters in sociology from University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1965 and a Ph.D. in sociology from University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1968. Chiricos died of cancer on November 7, 2022.

#148

Aggelos Kiayias

#52129

Overall Influence

Aggelos Kiayias FRSE is a Greek cryptographer and computer scientist, currently a professor at the University of Edinburgh and the Chief Science Officer at Input Output Global , the company behind Cardano.

#149

Jonathan Caulkins

#57273

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Jonathan Paul Caulkins is an American drug policy researcher and the H. Guyford Stever Professor of Operations Research and Public Policy at Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University. Education Caulkins received his B.S. and M.S. from Washington University in St. Louis in 1987, and his S.M. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989 and 1990, respectively.

#150

Darrell Steffensmeier

#87472

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Darrell John Steffensmeier is an American criminologist and Liberal Arts Research Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Pennsylvania State University. Education After receiving his bachelor's degrees in philosophy and history from St. Ambrose University, Steffensmeier received his M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Iowa in 1970 and 1972, respectively.

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