Leon Radzinowicz
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Professor Sir Leon Radzinowicz QC (Hon.) FBA |
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| 1st Wolfson Professor of Criminology | |
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In office 1959–1973 |
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| Succeeded by | Nigel Walker |
| 1st Director of the Cambridge Institute of Criminology | |
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In office 1959–1972 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
15 August 1906 Łódź, Poland |
| Died | 29 December 1999 (aged 93) Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Resting place | Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, England |
| Spouse(s) |
Irene Szereszewsk (m. 1933; div. 1955) Mary Ann Nevins (m. 1958; div. 1979) Isolde Klarmannb (m. 1979) |
| Children | Two |
Sir Leon Radzinowicz, QC (Hon.), FBA (15 August 1906 – 29 December 1999) was a criminologist and academic. He was the founding director of the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge.
Radzinowicz was born on 15 August 1906 in Łódź, Poland. He studied law as an undergraduate student at the University of Paris and the University of Geneva. He went on to study for a doctorate at the University of Cracow. During this time, he spent a year studying under Enrico Ferri at the Institute of Criminology in Rome, Italy.
Radzinowicz moved to England in 1938, having been granted funding by the Polish Ministry of Justice to study the English legal system.
From 1949 to 1959, Radzinowicz was Director of the Department of Criminal Science, University of Cambridge. In 1959, he founded the Cambridge Institute of Criminology. In 1959 he became the first Wolfson Professor of Criminology.
On 29 December 1999, Radzinowicz died in Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States. He was aged 93. He is buried with his third wife in the Ascension Parish Burial Ground in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England.
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