Radzinowicz, Leon, 1906-1999
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Name (Latin)
Radzinowicz, Leon, 1906-1999
Other forms of name
nnea Radzinowicz, Leon, Sir
Radzinowicz, Leon, Sir nnea
Date of birth
1906-08-15
Date of death
1999-12-29
Place of birth
Poland
Associated country
Great Britain
Poland
Switzerland
England
Other associated place
Geneva (Switzerland)
Warsaw (Poland)
Cambridge (England)
Field of activity
Criminal law
Criminology
Associate group
Université de Genève
Université de Genève (1928 - 1928)
Uniwersytet Warszawski
Uniwersytet Warszawski (1932 - 1932)
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge (1946)
University of Cambridge. Department of Criminal Science
University of Cambridge. Department of Criminal Science (1949 - 1949)
University of Cambridge. Institute of Criminology
University of Cambridge. Institute of Criminology (1960)
Occupation
Law teachers
College teachers
Authors
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
Biographical or Historical Data
b. 1906
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Ideology and crime, 1966:title page (Leon Radzinowicz)
- Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02(b. 1906)
- Jewish Virtual Library web site, February 4, 2013(Radzinowicz, Sir Leon (1906-1999); British criminologis; born in Poland; lectured at the University of Geneva from 1928 to 1931; in 1932 he began teaching at the Free University of Warsaw and in 1936 was appointed an assistant professor; two years later he made a study of the English penal system on behalf of the Polish Ministry of Justice; he and his wife remained in England at the outbreak of World War II, living in Cambridge; in 1946 he was named assistant director of research at the University of Cambridge and in 1949 director of the Department of Criminal Science, a post he held for ten years; from 1959 to 1973, he was Wolfson Professor of Criminology at Cambridge, and from 1960 on he was director of the Institute of Criminology which he had founded; among his most significant works are: History of English Criminal Law (4 vols. 1948-1968), In Search of Criminology (1961), The Need for Criminology (1965), Ideology and Crime (1966), and his autobiography, Adventures in Criminology (1999); from 1940 he was the editor of 33 volumes of English Studies in Criminal Science, later called Cambridge Studies in Criminology; converted to Christianity prior to World War II)
- His Penal reform ... 1940.
- Adventures in criminology, 1998:CIP t.p. (Sir Leon Radzinowicz) data sheet (b. 03-17-08)
Wikipedia description:
Sir Leon Radzinowicz, (15 August 1906 – 29 December 1999) was a Polish criminologist and academic. He was the founding director of the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge.
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