Sir Leon Radzinowicz, QC (Hon), FBA (15 August 1906 – 29 December 1999) was a criminologist and academic.
[3] During this time, he spent a year studying under Enrico Ferri at the Institute of Criminology in Rome, Italy.
[2] Radzinowicz moved to England in 1938, having been granted funding by the Polish Ministry of Justice to study the English legal system.
[3] During World War II, Radzinowicz established the Department of Criminal Science in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge.
[5] Radzinowicz made a major contribution to the study of criminology by his research in the trends of legal thought which led to modern concepts in the administration of justice which were adopted in many of the democratic countries.