Kerry Lyn Carrington FASSA (born 1962) is an Australian criminologist, and an adjunct professor at the School of Law and Society at the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC).
She was editor-in-chief of the International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy.
She is known for her work on gender and violence, feminist criminology, southern criminology, youth justice and girls' violence, and global justice and human rights.
She received the Distinguished Scholar Award of the American Society of Criminology in 2014.
Her publication Resource Boom Underbelly: The criminological impact of mining won the 2012 Allen Austin Bartholomew Award.