| LC control no. | n 50054816 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Radzinowicz, Leon, 1906-1999 |
| Variant(s) | Radzinowicz, Leon, Sir |
| Associated country | Poland Switzerland England |
| Associated place | Geneva, Switzerland Warsaw, Poland Cambridge, England |
| Birth date | 1906-03-17 |
| Death date | 1999 |
| Place of birth | Poland |
| Field of activity | Criminal law Criminology |
| Affiliation | Université de Genève Uniwersytet Warszawski University of Cambridge University of Cambridge. Department of Criminal Science University of Cambridge. Institute of Criminology |
| Profession or occupation | Law teachers College teachers Authors Professor of law |
| Found in | His Penal reform ... 1940. Adventures in criminology, 1998: CIP t.p. (Sir Leon Radzinowicz) data sheet (b. 03-17-08) 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) |
| Associated language | eng |
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