Criminology and War: Leon Radzinowicz in the London Moment

Among British criminologists, Leon Radzinowicz is considered one of the founding fathers of the discipline. In 1959, he became the first Wolfson Professor of Criminology and founding Director of the newly established Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge. He continued to dominate the academic field until his retirement in 1973. For some time, he was thus an unrivalled gatekeeper for criminology as an academic discipline. What is lesser known is how he came to England in the ..