Sir Leon Radzinowicz | |
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1st Wolfson Professor of Criminology | |
In office 1959–1973 | |
Succeeded by | Nigel Walker |
1st Director of the Cambridge Institute of Criminology | |
In office 1959–1972 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Łódź, Poland | 15 August 1906
Died | 29 December 1999 Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States | (aged 93)
Resting place | Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, England |
Spouses | Irene Szereszewsk
(m. 1933; div. 1955)Isolde Klarmann (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 Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge.[1]