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No. XLI/2 (2019)
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The Polish years of Leon Radzinowicz. A contribution to biography

Polskie lata Leona Radzinowicza. Przyczynek do biografii

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  • Jan Widacki
Jan Widacki
Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University, Faculty of Law, Administration and International Relations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7420/AK2019U

Published 2023-02-15

Keywords

  • Radzinowicz,
  • Radzinowicz and Polish criminology,
  • Radzinowicz in Poland,
  • Rabinowicz aka Radzinowicz,
  • Adventures in Criminology

How to Cite

Widacki, J. (2023). The Polish years of Leon Radzinowicz. A contribution to biography: Polskie lata Leona Radzinowicza. Przyczynek do biografii. Archives of Criminology, (XLI/2), 365–379. https://doi.org/10.7420/AK2019U
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Abstract

Hardly anything is known about the background and family of Sir Leon Radzinowicz or about his period of intensive academic activity in Poland between 1929 and 1938. Moreover, in his academic autobiography, entitled Adventures in Criminology, Radzinowicz is imprecise about details. This concerns both the dates of various events, notably that of his obtaining a doctoral diploma from the Jagiellonian University (Kraków, Poland) and his arriving in Poland from Geneva, and the names of various people cropping up in his biography. Similarly, the interesting works of Radzinowicz (until 1935, Rabinowicz) from his ‘Polish period’ are hardly known worldwide outside of a narrow circle.

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