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.

[3] In 2015, then-United States Attorney General Eric Holder appointed him to the Office of Justice Programs Science Advisory Board.

All three of his degrees were in criminology and criminal justice, and he received all of them from the University of Maryland, College Park.

[7] He has also co-authored a study showing that the arrest rate among National Football League players is lower than that for the American male population aged 20 to 39.

[4] Piquero has received the American Society of Criminology's Young Scholar and E-Mail Mentor of the Year Awards.