George L. Kelling
1935 - 2019 (84 years)
George Lee Kelling was an American criminologist, a professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University–Newark, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, and a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He previously taught at Northeastern University.
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James Q. Wilson
1931 - 2012 (81 years)
James Quinn Wilson was an American academic, political scientist, and an authority on public administration. Most of his career was spent as a professor at UCLA and Harvard University. He was the chairman of the Council of Academic Advisors of the American Enterprise Institute, member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board , and the President's Council on Bioethics. He was Director of Joint Center for Urban Studies at Harvard-MIT.
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Jock Young
1942 - 2013 (71 years)
Jock Young was a British sociologist and an influential criminologist. Biography Jock Young was educated at the London School of Economics. His PhD was an ethnography of drug use in Notting Hill, West London, out of which he developed the concept of moral panic. The research was published as The Drugtakers. He was a founding member of the National Deviancy Conferences and a group of critical criminologists in which milieu he wrote the groundbreaking, The New Criminology: For a Social Theory of Deviance in 1973, with Ian Taylor and Paul Walton and The Manufacture of News .
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Herman Goldstein
1931 - 2020 (89 years)
Herman Goldstein was born in 1931 in New London, Connecticut. He attended the University of Connecticut, majoring in political science and government. He earned a master’s degree in governmental administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Goldstein planned a career in city management, but after crossing paths with O.W. Wilson, considered the leading expert on policing of the time, Wilson became his mentor and future collaborator. His books, Policing a Free Society, Problem-Oriented Policing, and Criminal Justice Administration, have had a substantial impact on our understanding of criminal law and policing.
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Lawrence W. Sherman
1949 - Present (73 years)
Lawrence W. Sherman was born in 1949 in Schenectady, New York. He graduated from Denison University with a B.A. in political science, before earning his M.A. in social science from the University of Chicago. He went on to earn his diploma in criminology from the University of Cambridge and his M.A. and Ph.D in sociology from Yale University. Sherman has conducted extensive research into restorative justice, experimental criminology, and crime prevention. His work has been pivotal in stimulating a professional social movement among police officers across the world and in demonstrating how social science can be instrumental at the core of badly needed police reforms.
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John Alderson
1922 - 2011 (89 years)
John Cottingham Alderson was a senior British police officer and expert on police and penal affairs. Alderson was born in Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire, and educated at Barnsley Technical College. In 1938 he enlisted in the Highland Light Infantry as a boy soldier and reached the rank of Corporal before transferring to the Army Physical Training Corps in 1941. He served with the APTC in North Africa and Italy and left the Army in 1946 with the rank of Warrant Officer Class II.
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Alain Bauer
1962 - Present (60 years)
Alain Bauer is a French criminologist who has been a professor of criminology at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers since 2009. He is also a senior research fellow at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the China University of Political Science and Law . There were many protests in the scientific community in France against the appointment because he had not received a PhD.
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Travis Hirschi
1935 - 2017 (82 years)
Travis Warner Hirschi was an American sociologist and an emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Arizona. He helped to develop the modern version of the social control theory of crime and later the self-control theory of crime.
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David Weisburd
1954 - Present (68 years)
David Weisburd was born in 1954 in Brooklyn, New York. He received his B.A. from Brandeis University, and an M.A., an M.Phil, and a Ph.D in sociology from Yale University. Weisburd currently hold joint appointments as the Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law, Executive Director of the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy, and Distinguished Professor at George Mason University. A prolific writer, Weisburd has published hundreds of articles and more than 30 books including Police Innovation: Contrasting Perspectives and The Criminology of Place: Street Segments and Our Understanding of the Crime Problem.
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Tim Newburn
1959 - Present (63 years)
William Henry Timothy Newburn is an academic, specialising in criminology and policing. Career He was president of the British Society of Criminology from 2005–2008, director of the Mannheim Centre for Criminology from 2003-2008 and is currently head of the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. From 1997, he was Director of the Public Policy Research Unit at Goldsmiths College and has previously worked at the Policy Studies Institute, the National Institute for Social Work, the Home Office and Leicester University.
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Jeffrey A. Roth
1945 - Present (77 years)
Jeffrey A. Roth is criminologist and associate director for research at the University of Pennsylvania's Jerry Lee Center of Criminology. Roth's research has focused on juvenile crime trends, particularly the decrease in crime rates since 1993.
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Roger Graef
1936 - Present (86 years)
Roger Arthur Graef OBE is a theatre director and filmmaker. Born in New York, he moved to Britain in 1962, where he began a career producing documentary films investigating previously closed institutions, including Government ministries and court buildings.
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David Matza
1930 - 2018 (88 years)
David Matza was an American sociologist who taught at University of California, Berkeley from 1961. Life and Work Born in New York, he received his PhD from Princeton University in 1959. His research fields included deviant behavior, social change, poverty and working class life. He is best known for coauthoring, with Gresham Sykes, techniques of neutralization.
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Thorsten Sellin
1896 - 1994 (98 years)
Johan Thorsten Sellin was a Swedish American sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania, a penologist and one of the pioneers of scientific criminology. Biography Sellin was born in Örnsköldsvik in Västernorrland County, Sweden and came to Canada with his parents when he was 17 years old. He received his bachelor's degree from Augustana College in Illinois when he was 19. He went on to receive a master's degree and doctoral degree in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. He taught at the University of Pennsylvania from 1922 until becoming Professor Emeritus in 1967.
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Nicholas Scoppetta
1932 - 2016 (84 years)
Nicholas Scoppetta was the 31st New York City Fire Commissioner. He was appointed to that position by Mayor Michael Bloomberg on January 1, 2002 and was succeeded by Salvatore Cassano on January 1, 2010. He had previously served as the Commissioner of the city's Administration for Children's Services.
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Ray Whitrod
1915 - 2003 (88 years)
Raymond Wells Whitrod, was an Australian police officer and criminologist. He was considered a world leader in the way society treats victims of crime. He was known as a man of high professional standards, with a commitment to justice, equity and integrity. He became best known for his term as Commissioner of the Queensland Police Service, resigning in protest in 1976 at the corruption then endemic in Queensland, and in particular over the appointment by the Premier of Queensland, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, of Terry Lewis as Assistant Commissioner.
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Robert Ressler
1937 - 2013 (76 years)
Robert Kenneth Ressler was an FBI agent and author. He played a significant role in the psychological profiling of violent offenders in the 1970s and is often credited with coining the term "serial killer", though the term is a direct translation of the German term "Serienmörder" coined in 1930 by Berlin investigator Ernst Gennat. After retiring from the FBI, he authored a number of books on serial murders, and often gave lectures on criminology.
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David M. Kennedy
1958 - Present (64 years)
David M. Kennedy is a criminologist, professor, action researcher, and author specializing in crime prevention among inner city gangs, especially in the prevention of violent acts among street gangs. Kennedy developed the Operation Ceasefire group violence intervention in Boston in the 1990s and the High Point Model drug market intervention in High Point, North Carolina, in 2003, which have proven to reduce violence and eliminate overt drug markets in jurisdictions around the United States. He founded the National Network for Safe Communities in 2009 to support cities using these and related ...
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Richard Rosenfeld
1948 - Present (74 years)
Richard Rosenfeld was born in 1948. He earned his B.A. and his Ph.D in sociology from the University of Oregon. He has been honored by his colleagues on several occasions. He was selected as a Fulbright Scholar in 2016 and received the Edwin H. Sutherland Award from the American Society of Criminology in 2017. Rosenfeld’s research has concentrated on crime control, criminal justice policy, the social sources of crime and the statistical trends of criminal justice in the United States. He has examined violent crime in St.Louis, finding geographic areas with higher concentrations of violent crime, and evaluating the correlations between these areas and socioeconomic conditions.
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Jeffrey Fagan
1946 - Present (76 years)
Jeffrey Alan Fagan is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. He is also the director of that institution's Center for Crime, Community and Law, and a professor of epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health.
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Nils Bejerot
1921 - 1988 (67 years)
Nils Johan Artur Bejerot was a Swedish psychiatrist and criminologist best known for his work on drug abuse and for coining the phrase Stockholm syndrome. Bejerot was one of the top drug abuse researchers in Sweden. His view that drug abuse was a criminal matter and that drug use should have severe penalties was highly influential in Sweden and in other countries. He believed that the cure for drug addiction was to make drugs unavailable and socially unacceptable. He also advocated the idea that drug abuse could transition from being a symptom to a disease in itself.
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Nick Kaldas
1958 - Present (64 years)
Naguib "Nick" Kaldas APM is a former Australian police officer and former deputy commissioner of the New South Wales Police Force. Though considered to be a possible future Commissioner, in March 2016 Kaldas announced his decision to leave the Police Force and currently works for the United Nations.
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Didier Bigo
1956 - Present (66 years)
Didier Bigo is a French academic from Lille and Professor of International Relations at King's College London and at Sciences Po, Paris. He has written two books by himself and has been the editor for many others.
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Anne Piehl
1964 - Present (58 years)
Anne Morrison Piehl is an American economist and criminologist. She is a professor of economics at Rutgers University, the director of Rutgers' Program in Criminal Justice, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She joined Rutgers as an associate professor in 2005, and became a full professor there in 2012. Also in 2012, she became a fellow of the IZA Institute of Labor Economics. In 2020, she was named to the James Cullen Chair in Economics, where she will serve a five-year term. She served on the New Jersey Committee on Government Efficiency and Reform Correct...
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O. W. Wilson
1900 - 1972 (72 years)
Orlando Winfield Wilson , also known as O. W. Wilson, was an American police officer, later becoming a leader in policing along with authoring several books on policing. Wilson served as Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department, chief of police in Fullerton, California and Wichita, Kansas.
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David Canter
1944 - Present (78 years)
David Victor Canter is a psychologist. He began his career as an architectural psychologist studying the interactions between people and buildings, publishing and providing consultancy on the designs of offices, schools, prisons, housing and other building forms as well as exploring how people made sense of the large scale environment, notably cities. He set up the Journal of Environmental Psychology in 1980. His work in architecture led to studies of human reactions in fires and other emergencies. He wrote about investigative psychology in Britain. He helped police in 1985 on the Railway Rapist case.
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Ronald V. Clarke
1941 - Present (81 years)
Ronald V. Clarke was born in 1941 in Tanga, Tanganyika. He received his B.A. in psychology and philosophy from the University of Bristol, his M.A. in clinical psychology, and Ph.D in psychology from the University of London. A fellow of the British Psychological Society since 1978, he is credited for his work on rational choice theory and the development of the British Crime Survey - the British equivalent of the U.S. National Crime Victimization Survey. He also served as the editor-in-chief and founder of Crime Prevention Studies, an anthology of criminological research. He also founded the Center for Conservation Criminology & Ecology at Rutgers University.
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Jeffrey Ian Ross
1958 - Present (64 years)
Jeffrey Ian Ross is a scholar, professor, and criminologist specializing in the fields of policing, corrections, political crime, violence, abnormal-extreme criminal behavior, and crime and justice in American Indian communities. Since 1998 Ross has been a professor at the University of Baltimore. He is currently the co-chair of the Division of Critical Criminology of the American Society of Criminology. Ross is an author, co-author, editor, and co-editor of numerous books.
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Roger Matthews
1948 - 2020 (72 years)
Roger Matthews , was a British criminologist. He was a Professor of Criminology at the University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom. Prior to joining the University of Kent, he was a professor of criminology at London South Bank University and Middlesex University.
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John Lea
1944 - Present (78 years)
John Lea is a British left realist criminologist. For many years he was based at the Centre for Criminology and the Crime and Conflict Research Centre, Middlesex University in the United Kingdom. Career He graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London with a BSc in Economics in 1967, before gaining MSc's in Economics and Social Policy there too.
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Mark Kleiman
1951 - 2019 (68 years)
Mark Albert Robert Kleiman was an American professor, author, and blogger who dealt with issues of drug and criminal justice policy. A professor of public policy at New York University, in 2015, Kleiman became the director of the Crime and Justice Program at NYU's Marron Institute of Urban Management. Kleiman was an expert in the field of crime and drug policy and authored several books in the field.
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Ronald Weitzer
1952 - Present (70 years)
Ronald Weitzer is a sociologist specializing in criminology and a professor at George Washington University, known for his publications on police-minority relations and on the sex industry. Research and views
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Raymond Paternoster
1952 - 2017 (65 years)
Raymond "Ray" Paternoster was an American criminologist who taught at the University of Maryland from 1982 until his death in 2017, spending some of this time as a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice there.
Go to Profile Michael Andrew Arntfield is a Canadian academic, author, true crime broadcaster, university professor, Fulbright scholar, and former police officer. Academic and police careers Arntfield was a police officer and detective in London, Ontario from 1999 to 2014 when he left policing to accept a customized academic appointment at University of Western Ontario where he teaches what he calls "literary criminology" in a combined English literature, professional writing, and crime studies program. The program developed in part from a scholarly book series he was invited to co-direct by Peter Lang Publishing in New York, and through which he coined the term "the criminal humanities".
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Michael R. Gottfredson
1951 - Present (71 years)
Michael Ryan Gottfredson is the former President of the University of Oregon, serving from August 1, 2012 to August 6, 2014. Biography He has a B.A from the University of California, Davis, a M.A. and a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Albany.
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Jerzy Sarnecki
1947 - Present (75 years)
Jerzy Sarnecki is a professor of criminology at Stockholm University. He studied geodesy as an undergraduate before earning a Ph.D. in sociology from Stockholm University. During his schooling, he worked at youth recreation centres, which led to his later work as a researcher of juvenile delinquency for the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention. He served as Division Head at the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention until he became a professor of criminology at Stockholm University. He has intermittently served as head of the Department of Criminology at Stockholm University, ...
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Earl Gage Jr.
1927 - 2017 (90 years)
Earl Gage Jr. was an American firefighter. He was the first Black firefighter in San Francisco, California in the United States. He served as the only Black firefighter for 12 years. During his 28-year career, Gage promoted efforts to increase racial diversity.
Go to Profile Patricia Mayhew is a British criminologist and civil servant. She was formerly the Deputy Head of the Crime and Criminal Justice Unit at the Home Office in the United Kingdom, as well as the director of the Crime and Justice Research Centre at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand from 2004 to 2008. Her other positions include working at the National Institute of Justice in Washington, D. C., United States and the Australian Institute of Criminology in Canberra, Australia. She was one of the designers of the original International Crime Victims Survey in 1982, and managed the survey until 2000.
Go to Profile William Spelman is a professor of public affairs at the University of Texas at Austin's Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. He is an expert on urban policy and criminal justice policy. Education Spelman received an A.B. in political science from UCLA in 1977, an M.P.P. from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1984, and a Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University in 1988.
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Walter Reckless
1898 - 1988 (90 years)
Walter Reckless was an American criminologist known for his containment theory . Biography Reckless earned his PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago. While at the Chicago School , he joined with sociologists Robert Park and Ernest Burgess in conducting observation studies of crime in Chicago, Illinois. This research led to his dissertation, The Natural History of Vice Areas in Chicago , which was published as "Vice in Chicago" - a landmark sociological study of fraud, prostitution, and organized crime in the city's "vice" districts.
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Ruth Peterson
1900 - Present (122 years)
Ruth Delois Peterson is an American sociologist and criminologist known for her work on racial and ethnic inequality and crime. She earned her PhD in sociology from University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1983. Peterson is emerita professor of sociology at the Ohio State University, former director of the Criminal Justice Research Center , and former president of the American Society of Criminology . She is the namesake of the American Society of Criminology's Ruth D. Peterson Fellowship for Racial and Ethnic Diversity.
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Phil Scraton
1949 - Present (73 years)
Phil Scraton is a critical criminologist, academic and author. He is a social researcher, known particularly for his investigative work into the context, circumstances and aftermath of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster. More recently, he was a member of the Hillsborough Independent Panel and headed its research. Currently he is Professor Emeritus, School of Law at Queen's University Belfast, and formerly Director of the Childhood, Transition and Social Justice Initiative.
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Frank Schmalleger
1947 - Present (75 years)
Frank Schmalleger was born in 1947. He earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D in sociology from Ohio State University, with a concentration in criminology. He has written many books and articles on criminology and justice, such as Trial of the Century: People of the State of California vs. Orenthal James Simpson, Finding Criminal Justice in the Library, The Social Basis of Criminal Justice, and A History of Corrections. Today, he is best known for Criminal Law Today, Criminology Today, and Criminal Justice Today, developed in collaboration with Pearson for distribution through their Revel platform, which infuses the subject matter with interactivity for online students.
Go to Profile Lorie A. Fridell is an American criminologist known for her research on police, especially regarding racial profiling. She is an associate professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of South Florida , where she has taught since 2005. She was previously the research director at the Police Executive Research Forum for six years . She is the co-editor-in-chief of Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, along with her USF colleague Wesley Jennings.
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Anthony Bottoms
1939 - Present (83 years)
Sir Anthony Edward Bottoms FBA is a British criminologist. He is life fellow at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, having previously been a Wolfson Professor of Criminology at the Institute of Criminology in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge from 1984 to 2006 and until December 2007 a professor of criminology jointly at the universities of Cambridge and Sheffield.
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Robert Crutchfield
1949 - Present (73 years)
Robert D. Crutchfield is an American sociologist and professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Washington. He is known for his book Get A Job: Labor Markets, Economic Opportunity, and Crime, which was published in 2014.
Go to Profile Christopher S. Koper is Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University, and a senior fellow and co-director of the evidence-based policing program in the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy.
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Alfred Blumstein
1930 - Present (92 years)
Alfred Blumstein was born in 1930 in New York. He earned his bachelor’s degree and Ph.D from Cornell University. Blumstein’s research has explored multiple aspects of criminal justice, such as career criminality, criminal justice policy, juvenile violence, deterrence, and populations within the prison system. He has published multiple works that continue to inform criminal justice theory, including his 2007 work, Key Issues in Criminal Career Research: New Analyses of the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development, which he wrote with colleagues, Alex Piquero and David P. Farrington. His work has been honored by numerous criminal justice organizations.
Go to Profile Marc Mauer is the executive director of the Sentencing Project, a group that advocates for criminal justice reform and addressing racial disparities in the United States criminal-justice system. Education Mauer received his bachelor's degree from Stony Brook University and his Master of Social Work from the University of Michigan.
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Graeme Newman
1939 - Present (83 years)
Graeme R. Newman is an American scholar of criminal justice and Distinguished Teaching Professor at University at Albany. He is a recipient of J. Francis Finnegan Memorial Prize in Criminology. Newman is the vice president of Center for Problem Oriented Policing and pioneered the establishment of the United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network. He is known for his research on crime prevention.
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