Alex Piquero | |
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| Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics | |
| Assumed office August 15, 2022 | |
| President | Joe Biden |
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 6, 1970 |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Nicole Leeper Piquero |
| Education | University of Maryland, College Park (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) |
| Awards | American Society of Criminology's Young Scholar and E-Mail Mentor of the Year Awards |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Criminology |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | An application of Stafford and Warr's reconceptualization of deterrence to drinking and driving (1996) |
| Doctoral advisor | Raymond Paternoster |
| Doctoral students | Wesley Jennings |
Alexis Russell Piquero (born May 6, 1970)[1] is a Cuban-American criminologist who is professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Miami, where he is also Arts & Sciences Distinguished Scholar.[2] He previously served as the Ashbel Smith Professor of Criminology at the University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas), where he was also the Associate Dean for Graduate Programs in the School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences. He has been ranked as the #1 criminologist in the world since 1996 by the number of peer-reviewed papers in criminology journals.[3] In 2015, then-United States Attorney General Eric Holder appointed him to the Office of Justice Programs Science Advisory Board.[4]
- ^ "Alexis Russell Piquero". Library of Congress. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
- ^ "Alexis Piquero". University of Miami. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
- ^ "Alex R. Piquero". University of Texas at Dallas. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
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