Kerry Lyn Carrington FASSA (born 1962) is an Australian criminologist, and a research professor at the School of Justice at the Faculty of Law at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). She formerly served as head of the QUT School of Justice. She is editor-in-chief of the . 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 has been described by Open University Professor of Criminology Reece Walters as "one of Australia’s most influential critical criminologists."