Faculty demographics in criminology and criminal justice: a wider view

Abstract

Large-scale analyses of the demographics of postsecondary students and faculty in the United States have found that the student population has become quite diverse while faculty have not made the same strides. Unfortunately, knowledge about the demographic diversity of faculty that are specific to criminology and criminal justice (CCJ) has been based on surveys of CCJ organizations with general memberships and/or the faculty in a small sample of Ph.D. granting institutions. This study attempts to fill this void through a wide-scale analysis of the demographics of faculty in 726 universities and colleges in the United States that offer CCJ majors. Utilizing photographs of faculty along with all other existing information at our disposal, we found CCJ faculty to be slightly more diverse than what has been found in other recent analyses, although still well below the diversity statistics that are known about CCJ students.