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List of the most influential people in Criminal Justice,

#201

Darnell Hawkins

#91161

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Darnell Felix Hawkins is an American sociologist and criminologist. He is emeritus professor of African-American studies, sociology, and criminal justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is known for his research on racial differences in crime, the ways in which the law is applied differently across races, and violence prevention. This includes research on urban violence and racial profiling.

#202

Thomas Blomberg

Thomas Blomberg

#138169

Overall Influence

Thomas G. Blomberg is an American criminologist. He is an expert in criminology research and public policy; delinquency, education and crime desistance; penology and social control; and victim services. He is currently the Dean, Sheldon L. Messinger Professor of Criminology, and the executive director of the Center for Criminology and Public Policy Research at the Florida State University College of Criminology and Criminal Justice.

#203

Anastasia Powell

#136019

Overall Influence

Anastasia Powell is a feminist criminologist at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Career Powell gained her PhD in criminology from the University of Melbourne in 2008 and has been a director of Our Watch since 2016 . Her doctoral research was published in the 2010 book Sex, Power and Consent: Youth Culture and the Unwritten Rules by Cambridge University Press. Powell's research specialises in policy and prevention concerning men's violence against women, with a particular focus on sexual violence and technology-facilitated abuse.

#204

Ruby Bei-loh Lee

#164880

Overall Influence

#205

Graham Farrell

#118272

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Graham Farrell is a British criminologist who is Professor of International and Comparative Criminology at the University of Leeds School of Law. Education and career Farrell received his BSc from the University of Surrey and his PhD from the University of Manchester. He worked at the University of Oxford's Centre for Criminological Research before joining the United Nations in the 1990s. He then taught at Loughborough University and at Simon Fraser University, where he was appointed Professor in Environmental Criminology in 2013. He joined the University of Leeds in 2015.

#206

Thomas Gabor

#160909

Overall Influence

Thomas Gabor is a Canadian criminologist who was a professor of criminology at the University of Ottawa for thirty years; since his retirement, he has worked as a consultant on crime and related issues. He received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1983. As of January 2017, he lived in Palm Beach County, Florida.

#207

Mark S. Miller

#8658

Overall Influence

Mark S. Miller is an American computer scientist. He is known for his work as one of the participants in the 1979 hypertext project known as Project Xanadu; for inventing Miller columns; and the open-source coordinator of the E programming language. He also designed the Caja compiler. Miller is a Senior Research Fellow at the Foresight Institute.

#208

David Indermaur

#40042

Overall Influence

David Indermaur is an Australian clinical psychologist, criminologist, writer, and academic. He is a research associate professor at the University of Western Australia's Crime Research Centre. Education and career Indermaur graduated from the University of Western Australia, obtaining a masters in clinical psychology in 1979 and a Doctor of Law in 1997. In 1976 he worked as a psychologist for prisoners in Western Australia, researching public views on punishment for crimes and court sentencing. In the 1980s and 1990s Indermaur worked on criminal investigations involving drugs and violent crime.

#209

William Pridemore

#159777

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

William Alex Pridemore is an American criminologist who is a professor in, and the dean of, the University at Albany, SUNY's School of Criminal Justice. He is also an affiliate faculty member at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.

#210

Brian Boutwell

#91386

Overall Influence

Brian B. Boutwell is an American criminologist and Associate Professor of Criminal Justice & Legal Studies at the University of Mississippi. Career Boutwell has conducted research on the intelligence quotient of psychopaths, finding that their average IQ is lower than the general population. This research has been published in a peer-reviewed journal. He has been an associate professor at the University of Mississippi since the summer of 2019.

#211

Lisa Stolzenberg

#148839

Overall Influence

Lisa Stolzenberg is an American criminologist. She is a professor in, and chair of, the Department of Criminal Justice at Florida International University . Education and career Stolzenberg attended the University of Florida, where she received her B.S. in criminal justice in 1985. She went on to receive her M.S. and Ph.D. in criminology from Florida State University in 1986 and 1993, respectively. Before joining FIU, she held multiple other positions, including professor of public policy at Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne.

#212

Andrew Silke

#148773

Overall Influence

Andrew Silke holds a chair in Terrorism, Risk and Resilience at Cranfield University's Forensic Institute. Previously, he was the Head of Criminology and the Programme Director for Terrorism Studies at the University of East London.

#213

Miren Ortubay Fuentes

#70070

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Miren Ortubay Fuentes is a Spanish lawyer and criminologist, as well as a professor at the University of the Basque Country , specializing in gender-related violence and prisoners' rights. Biography Ortubay Fuentes graduated in law from the University of Deusto in 1980, and holds a Ph.D. in law from the same university. Her 1994 doctoral thesis was entitled, . She holds a diploma in Criminology from the Complutense University of Madrid, and did postgraduate studies in criminology at the university of Louvain-la-Neuve .

#214

Tavis Ormandy

#15342

Overall Influence

Tavis Ormandy is an English computer security white hat hacker. He is currently employed by Google and was formerly part of Google's Project Zero team. Notable discoveries Ormandy is credited with discovering severe vulnerabilities in LibTIFF, Sophos' antivirus software and Microsoft Windows. With Natalie Silvanovich he discovered a severe vulnerability in FireEye products in 2015.

#215

M. Dwayne Smith

#145434

Overall Influence

M. Dwayne Smith is an American criminologist and professor of criminology at the University of South Florida, where he is also the senior vice provost and Dean of the Office of Graduate Studies. He is the founding editor of the peer-reviewed journal Homicide Studies, which he edited from 1996 to 2001. From 2000 to 2005, he was the chair of the University of South Florida's Department of Criminology. He is an expert on mass murderers and serial killers, and has also researched jury decisions in death penalty cases in North Carolina, as well as other criminological topics.

#216

Bill Buchanan

#151311

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

William Johnston Buchanan OBE FBCS CEng PFHEA is a Scottish computer scientist. Buchanan is a professor in the School of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment. He currently leads the Blockpass ID Lab and the Centre for Cybersecurity, IoT and Cyberphysical at Edinburgh Napier University. In 2017, he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to cyber security.

#217

Herbert Bos

#170311

Overall Influence

#218

Charles Wellford

#162645

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Charles Franklin Wellford is an American criminologist, emeritus professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland–College Park. He previously served as the department's chair. In 1996, the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice established the Charles Wellford Fellowship in his honor. He was chair of the University of Maryland's Athletic Council from 1995 to 2008. He was the president of the American Society of Criminology during 1995–96. In addition he was the research director for the National Issues Center at Westinghouse Corporation, d...

#219

Abd al-Wahhab Hawmad

#75718

Overall Influence

1915 - 2002 (87 years)

Abd al-Wahhab Hawmad was a Syrian politician, lawyer, criminologist and professor. Background Hawmad was born to father Mahmoud Hawmad in Aleppo, where he was raised, in 1915. Before his entry into politics, Hawmad worked as a lawyer, specializing in criminology. He graduated from the University of Paris with a law doctorate and a degree in criminal justice. He also studied Arabic literature at the university. When he returned to Syria, Hawmad also worked as a professor at the University of Damascus.

#220

Neal Hazel

#76037

Overall Influence

Neal Hazel is a British criminologist and social policy analyst who is best known for his research on youth justice and on family support. He is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Salford and is the former Her Majesty's Deputy Chief Inspector of Probation for England and Wales.

#221

Jon Callas

#16091

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Jon Callas is an American computer security expert, software engineer, user experience designer, and technologist who is the co-founder and former CTO of the global encrypted communications service Silent Circle. He has held major positions at Digital Equipment Corporation, Apple, PGP, and Entrust, and is considered "one of the most respected and well-known names in the mobile security industry." Callas is credited with creating several Internet Engineering Task Force standards, including OpenPGP, DKIM, and ZRTP, which he wrote. Prior to his work at Entrust, he was Chief Technical Officer and...

#222

Alice Yotopoulos-Marangopoulos

#107878

Overall Influence

1917 - 2018 (101 years)

Alice Yotopoulos-Marangopoulos was a Greek lawyer and criminologist. Career Born Aliki Giotopoulou , the daughter of a lawyer, she served as Professor of Criminology, President of the Hellenic Society of Criminology, board member of the International Society of Criminology, lawyer at the Supreme Court, Vice President of the Bar Association of Athens, President of the Panteion University, President of the National Commission for Human Rights and as the 10th President of the International Alliance of Women . She was founder and President of the Marangopoulos Foundation for Human Rights.

#223

Carlisle Moody

#101877

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Carlisle E. Moody is an American economist, criminologist, and professor of economics at the College of William & Mary. Education Moody received his B.A. from Colby College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut, all in economics.

#224

Joseph Donnermeyer

#80129

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Joseph F. Donnermeyer is a Professor Emeritus at Ohio State University, School of Environment and Natural Resources. His main subject is rural criminology. He has also a focus on Amish studies, especially on change in Amish and Old Order Mennonite communities.

#225

Don Gottfredson

#90852

Overall Influence

1926 - 2002 (76 years)

Don Martin Gottfredson was an American criminologist who was the founding dean of the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University. At the time of his death in 2002, he was the Richard J. Hughes Professor Emeritus of Criminal Justice at Rutgers. The Criminal Justice Library at Rutgers was renamed the Don M. Gottfredson Library of Criminal Justice in his memory in 2003.

#226

Tracey McIntosh

Tracey McIntosh

#91812

Overall Influence

Tracey Kathleen Dorothy McIntosh is a New Zealand sociology and criminology academic. She is of Māori descent and is currently a Professor of Indigenous Studies and Co-Head of Te Wānanga o Waipapa at the University of Auckland.

#227

David Bowen

#93139

Overall Influence

1924 - 2011 (87 years)

David Aubrey Llewellyn Bowen was a Welsh pathologist. He studied medicine at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was involved in the Dennis Nilsen case, and also that of John Duffy and David Mulcahy, the murder of PC Keith Blakelock and the death of the financier Roberto Calvi.

#228

Benjamin Perrin

Benjamin Perrin

#47348

Overall Influence

Benjamin Perrin is a professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Human trafficking opponent Perrin is involved with human trafficking research and activism, and wrote the 2010 book Invisible Chains: Canada's Underground World of Human Trafficking. This book deals extensively with a gang of pimps called North Preston's Finest and includes an account of the disappearance of Jessie Foster. Perrin received a George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature nomination for having written this book. Perrin helped Joy Smith develop the National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking.

#229

Phil A. Silva

#174279

Overall Influence

#230

Keith Soothill

#130442

Overall Influence

1941 - 2014 (73 years)

Keith Leonard Soothill was a British criminologist, social researcher and academic. He was Professor of Social Research at Lancaster University from 1990 until he retired in 2006. Soothill was born in Whetstone, London, on 25 March 1941; his father, a salesman, was a WEA tutor. He attended King's College School, Wimbledon, on a scholarship and then worked in advertising before completed a degree in philosophy and psychology at the University of Exeter, graduating in 1965.

#231

Matt Curtin

#47190

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Matt Curtin is a computer scientist and entrepreneur in Columbus, Ohio best known for his work in cryptography and firewall systems. He is the founder of Interhack Corporation, first faculty advisor of Open Source Club at The Ohio State University, and lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University, where he teaches a Common Lisp course. The author of two books, Developing Trust: Online Privacy and Security and Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard.

#232

Gary Mauser

#79454

Overall Influence

Gary A. Mauser is a Canadian criminologist and emeritus professor in the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University. Education Mauser received his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964 and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine in 1970, both in psychology.

#233

Allen Liska

#111248

Overall Influence

1940 - 1998 (58 years)

Allen Erwin Liska was an American sociologist and criminologist. He was a full professor at the University at Albany, SUNY from 1982 until his death in 1998, having originally joined the faculty there in 1979. From 1985 to 1988, he was the chair of the Department of Sociology there. He supervised more Ph.D. students than any other faculty member in the University at Albany, SUNY's sociology department. During his career, he also served as chair of the American Sociological Association's Section on Crime, Law, and Deviance. He was named a fellow of the American Society of Criminology in November 1998.

#234

Wolfram Meier-Augenstein

#150205

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Wolfram Meier-Augenstein is a professor at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK, a registered forensic expert advisor with the British National Crime Agency and a member of the Advisory Board of the journal Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry.

#235

Michael D. Maltz

#151335

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Michael D. Maltz is an American electrical engineer, criminologist and Emeritus Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago in criminal justice, and adjunct professor and researcher at Ohio State University.

#236

David A Wagner

#176907

Overall Influence

#237

Winifred Cavenagh

#85974

Overall Influence

1908 - 2004 (96 years)

Winifred Elizabeth Cavenagh was a British criminologist, social scientist, and academic. She joined the University of Birmingham as a lecturer in social studies in 1946 and was made Professor of Social Administration and Criminology in 1972: she retired from academia in 1976 and was appointed professor emeritus. Outside of her university career, she served as a local magistrate, on numerous boards, and, after study law and qualifying, worked as a barrister.

#238

Mona Lynch

#176040

Overall Influence

Mona Pauline Lynch is an American criminologist and Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and Law at the University of California, Irvine, where she is also co-director of the Center in Law, Society and Culture.

#239

Roderic Broadhurst

#138099

Overall Influence

Roderic Broadhurst is a criminal justice practitioner, academic, and author. He is an Emeritus Professor at the School of Regulation and Global Governance and Fellow of the Research School of Asian and the Pacific at the Australian National University .

#240

Holger Ziegler

#118329

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Holger Ziegler is a professor of social work at the Faculty of Education at Bielefeld University. He was a member of the Research Training Group Youth Welfare and Social Services in Transition of the German Research Foundation , Fellow at the Department of Criminology at Keele University and Assistant Professor of Special Education at Westfälische Wilhelms University Münster. He has been a member of the academic advisory board of the German Soccer League since 2010; of the North Rhine-Westphalia research school Education and Capability and member of the Human Development and Capability Ass...

#241

Eileen Baldry

#124670

Overall Influence

Eileen Baldry is an Australian criminologist and social justice advocate. She is Deputy Vice-Chancellor Equity Diversity and Inclusion and Professor of Criminology at the University of New South Wales .

#242

Robin Engel

#175048

Overall Influence

Robin Shepard Engel is an American criminologist and professor in the College of Education Criminal Justice and Human Services at the University of Cincinnati . She is also UC's Vice President for Safety & Reform and the director of the IACP/UC Center for Police Research and Policy, a collaboration between UC and the International Association of Chiefs of Police . She is also the former director of UC's Institute of Crime Science. She became UC's first Vice President for Safety & Reform in 2015, when the university created the position in response to the shooting of Samuel DuBose by a UC police officer.

#243

Donald A. Andrews

#171927

Overall Influence

1941 - 2010 (69 years)

Donald Arthur Andrews was a Canadian correctional psychologist and criminologist who taught at Carleton University, where he was a founding member of the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice. He is recognized for having criticized Robert Martinson's influential paper concluding that "nothing works" in correctional treatment. He also helped to advance the technique of risk assessment to better predict the chance of recidivism among offenders. He is credited with coining the terms "criminogenic needs" and "risk-need-responsivity", both of which have since been used and studied extensiv...

#244

Patrick Lincoln

#43298

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Patrick Denis Lincoln is an American computer scientist leading the Computer Science Laboratory at SRI International. Educated at MIT and then Stanford, he joined SRI in 1989 and became director of the CSL around 1998. He previously held positions with ETA Systems, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and MCC.

#245

Jo Phoenix

#116545

Overall Influence

Jo Phoenix is an author and professor of Criminology in the United Kingdom. Phoenix writes about the policies and laws which surround various sexual activities, and the social conditions which underpin them. She is known for her gender critical views, having founded the Gender Critical Research Network, and has sued her employer after they refused to act when her colleagues subjected her to sustained harassment and bullying.

#246

Colin Loftin

#172163

Overall Influence

Colin Loftin is an American criminologist and Distinguished Professor at the University at Albany School of Criminal Justice. At the University at Albany, he is also the co-director of the Violence Research Group, along with David McDowall.

#247

James Lynch

#177442

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

James Patrick Lynch is an American criminologist and professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland. Education Lynch graduated from Northwest Catholic High School in West Hartford, Connecticut in 1967, after which he received his bachelor's degree in sociology from Wesleyan University in 1971. He later received a masters' and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago in 1975 and 1983, respectively.

#248

Vir Phoha

#152060

Overall Influence

Vir Virander Phoha is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Syracuse University College of Engineering and Computer Science. Phoha is known for developing practicable foundations of behavioral biometrics for active and continuous authentication. His research focuses on attack-averse authentication, spoof-resistance, anomaly detection, machine learning, optimized attack formulation, and spatial-temporal pattern detection and event recognition. Phoha's work also provides protection for many classified information systems and his inventions have resulted in the widespread ...

#249

Nadia Heninger

#35869

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (42 years)

Nadia Heninger is an American cryptographer, computer security expert, and computational number theorist at the University of California, San Diego. Contributions Heninger is known for her work on freezing powered-down security devices to slow their fading memories and allow their secrets to be recovered via a cold boot attack, for her discovery that weak keys for the RSA cryptosystem are in widespread use by internet routerss and other embedded devices, for her research on how failures of forward secrecy in bad implementations of the Diffie–Hellman key exchange may have allowed the National ...

#250

Peter M. Schneider

#148649

Overall Influence

1955 - 2022 (67 years)

Peter Matthias Schneider was a German forensic geneticist. He was a full professor at the Institute of Legal Medicine of the University of Cologne. Biography Schneider studied biology at the University of Bonn until 1983. Between 1984 and 1986, he worked as visiting research fellow at the Children's Hospital Boston of Harvard Medical School on the genetic structure of the fourth component of the human complement system. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1987 at the University of Mainz and his habilitation in immunology in 1996, when he was promoted to assistant professor. In 2004, he became full profe...

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