[2] Its multidisciplinary teaching and research staff are recruited from the disciplines of law, psychiatry, psychology, and sociology.

The Institute of Criminology building was designed by Allies and Morrison.

[3] The Institute is also home to the Radzinowicz Library, which houses the most comprehensive criminology collection in the United Kingdom.

[5] During World War II, Sir Leon Radzinowicz established the Department of Criminal Science in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge.

[6] In 1959, as the field of criminology was met with increasing interest and success, Sir Leon Radzinowicz founded the Institute of Criminology with the support of a benefaction from the Wolfson Foundation and the Howard League for Penal Reform.