Panchanan Ghoshal was a Bengali criminologist, writer and social reformer who became the first Indian to earn a doctorate in criminal psychology. He served in the Indian Imperial Police before retiring as Deputy Inspector General and turning to teaching at Calcutta University, and he wrote the eight volume Aparadhbiggan, examining the causes, psychology and rehabilitation of crime. He also founded schools and a reformatory, including a school in Kolkata for the children of sex workers, and founded the Kolkata Police journal.
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