The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people in Criminal Justice,
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Giovanni Vigna
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Herbert L. Packer
1925 - 1972 (47 years)
Herbert Leslie Packer was an American law professor and criminologist. His key work is the book The Limits of the Criminal Sanction , which proposed two models of the criminal justice system, the crime control model and the due process model. These models were extremely influential in criminology and criminal policy debates.
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Mary Louisa Willard
1898 - 1993 (95 years)
Mary Louisa Willard was internationally recognized for her work in microscopy and forensic science. She began working at Pennsylvania State University as an assistant in 1921, and retired as professor emerita in 1964. She assisted law enforcement officers throughout her career and after her formal retirement, often without pay.
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Peter G. Neumann
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Ben Daniels
1852 - 1923 (71 years)
Benjamin Franklin Daniels was an Arizona pioneer, best known for serving as a lawman in rough Western towns and the sheriff of Pima County shortly before his death in 1923. He was also a member of the Rough Riders, superintendent of the Yuma Territorial Prison, United States Marshal for the Territory of Arizona and a miner.
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Lorenzo Tenchini
1852 - 1906 (54 years)
Lorenzo Tenchini was born in Brescia and studied Medicine in Pavia where he became lecturer of Anatomy in 1880. In 1881, at the age of 29 years, he was appointed Professor of Anatomy at the University of Parma. In this city Tenchini began to study the morphology of the brains of criminals, later founding the "Museum of Criminal Anthropology". He collected brains of delinquents and their wax masks and studied the relationship between neuroanatomy and criminality. He promoted the building of a lunatic asylum in the province of Parma and was interested in social medicine, including the pellagra scourge in Northern Italy.
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William Arthur Harland
1926 - 1985 (59 years)
William Arthur Harland FRSE FRCPC FRCPG was a Belfast-born physician. After a lifetime of international roles he became Regius Professor of Forensic Medicine at Glasgow University and then Dean of the Faculty of Law. He appeared as an expert witness in many British trials. He was also an expert in atherosclerosis and thyroid disease. He was one of the persons to introduce radiocarbon dating into forensic science.
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Harvey Littlejohn
1862 - 1927 (65 years)
Henry Harvey Littlejohn, FRCSEd, was a Scottish academic, forensic scientist and medical officer of health, who followed in the footsteps of his father, Henry Duncan Littlejohn, as Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at. the University of Edinburgh. This position also entailed acting as Police Surgeon to the City of Edinburgh and Advisor to the Crown. In this capacity he was called upon as an expert witness at high profile criminal cases.
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Franz Exner
1881 - 1947 (66 years)
Franz Exner was an Austrian-German criminologist and criminal lawyer. Alongside Edmund Mezger, Hans von Hentig and Gustav Aschaffenburg, he was a leading and in some respects a pioneering representative of the German school of criminology in the first half of the twentieth century. During the 1920s and 1930s Exner produced pioneering work on the interface between Criminology and Sociology. He became a controversial figure among subsequent generations because of the extent to which during the 1930s and 1940s his ideas evolved towards National Socialist ideology, notably with regard to so-call...
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John Glaister
1856 - 1932 (76 years)
Professor John Glaister was a Scottish forensic scientist who worked as a general practitioner, police surgeon, and as a lecturer at Glasgow Royal Infirmary Medical School and the University of Glasgow. Glasgow University's Glaister Prize is named in his honour.
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Robert Emmet
1780 - 1803 (23 years)
Robert Emmet was an Irish Republican, orator and rebel leader. Following the suppression of the United Irish uprising in 1798, he sought to organise a renewed attempt to overthrow the British Crown and Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland, and to establish a nationally representative government. Emmet entertained, but ultimately abandoned, hopes of immediate French assistance and of coordination with radical militants in Great Britain. In Ireland, many of the surviving veterans of '98 hesitated to lend their support, and his rising in Dublin in 1803 proved abortive.
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Walter Stanley Haines
1850 - 1923 (73 years)
Walter Stanley Haines was an American professor of chemistry, materia medica, and toxicology. He taught at Rush Medical College in Chicago for almost 50 years, and was acclaimed for his teaching. With Frederick Peterson, he published a comprehensive guide to medicine and the law, A Textbook on Legal Medicine and Toxicology, which went through many editions.
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Weston J. Morrow
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Douglas Kelley
1912 - 1958 (46 years)
Lt. Colonel Douglas McGlashan Kelley was a United States Army Military Intelligence Corps officer who served as chief psychiatrist at Nuremberg Prison during the Nuremberg War Trials. He worked to ascertain defendants' competency before they stood trial.
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Johann Baptist Friedreich
1796 - 1862 (66 years)
Johann Baptist Friedreich was a German forensic physician and psychiatrist. He was a prominent member of the so-called "somatic school" of psychiatry in Germany. He was the son of physician Nicolaus Anton Friedreich , and the father of pathologist Nikolaus Friedreich .
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