 Alex Piquero

Alexis Russell "Alex" Piquero (born May 6, 1970) is a Cuban-American criminologist and the Ashbel Smith Professor of Criminology at the University of Texas at Dallas (UT-Dallas), where he is 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.