Nicole Leeper Piquero | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | University of Maryland |
| Known for | Research on white-collar crime |
| Spouse | Alex Piquero |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Criminology |
| Institutions | University of Miami |
| Thesis | An Outcome Evaluation of the Maryland Hotspots Probation Program (2001) |
| Doctoral advisor | Charles Wellford |
Nicole Leeper Piquero is an American criminologist and a professor of sociology at the University of Miami. Piquero is also the Associate Dean in the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Miami.[1] She was previously employed at the University of Texas at Dallas (UT-Dallas), where she was the associate provost for faculty development and program review since 2015, and has held the position of Robert E. Holmes Jr. tenured professor there since 2016.[2] A 2013 article in the Journal of Criminal Justice Education ranked her as one of the top five female academics publishing in respected criminology and criminal justice journals.[3]