Leon Radzinowicz

Sir Leon Radzinowicz (1906-1999) was a Polish born criminologist and academic who became the founding director of the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Law, established in 1959, and its first Wolfson Professor of Criminology. He authored the four volume History of English Criminal Law (1948 to 1968) and In Search of Criminology (1961), works that shaped the study of criminal law and criminal justice trends across democratic nations. He was knighted in 1970 and elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1973.