Findings show that graduate respondents exhibited a wide diversity of personal attributes, professional interests, ideologies, and activities; women were consistently more inclined than men to challenge traditional criminological concepts and practices; and critical perspectives prevailed over conservative ones, particularly among current enrollees. Participants endorsed criminology as a socially relevant enterprise and considered the promotion of social justice and change to outweigh crime prevention as its principal mandate. Also, students generally assessed their education experience positively, although some concern was expressed about lack of graduate-faculty parity, the unavailability of research assistantships, and exposure to academic exploitation and harassment. This paper considers these and other survey results in the context of contemporary writing on the sociology of academic criminology and offers some possible avenues and priorities for future theory and research. 7 tables, 10 notes, and 41 references