Alex R. Piquero

Alex R. Piquero, whose full given name is Alexis, is an American criminologist who is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Scholar and professor of sociology and criminology at the University of Miami. He is known for research on developmental and life-course criminology, examining how offending patterns change over an individual's lifetime, work recognized in 2020 with a lifetime achievement award from the American Society of Criminology's Division of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology. In June 2022 he was appointed to direct the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, overseeing a budget of more than ninety million dollars and dozens of national crime data collections, before returning to the University of Miami in 2023.