Jinsuke Kageyama

Jinsuke Kageyama, born in 1948 in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, is a Japanese psychiatrist and criminologist whose research centers on criminal psychopathology, forensic and clinical psychiatry, and the history of psychiatric thought. A graduate of Tokyo Medical and Dental University, he became professor emeritus at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and served as president of the Japanese Association of Criminology from 2012 to 2018, after earlier winning the association's own prize in 2002. He developed the concepts of Comprehensive Criminology and Integrative Criminology, frameworks intended to bring psychiatric and social-scientific perspectives on offending together, and directed the Japanese Psychiatric Historical Society from 1997 to 2018.