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Criminology combines the study of law, crime, the police, and their social and political affiliations. The discipline was born in America in
Chicago (JCLC p.477-486)
, influenced the ongoing study of social and political institutions in Chicago, and was closely tied to the work of
Chicago
educational institutions and social service agencies, such as Jane Addams Hull House.
The founding of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology in 1910 at
Northwestern
University
School of Law was a landmark in the history of criminology, and occurred in conjunction with the celebration of the founding of Northwestern University School of Law fifty years earlier.
The founding of The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology by Dean Henry Wigmore and his colleagues was also a milestone. The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology continues to be published at Northwestern University School of Law and remains a preeminent scholarly journal in the fields of both criminal law and criminology. The Journal continues to publish path breaking research and is the publisher for the first research papers, included here, of the Chicago Historical Homicide Project: “Learning from the Past, Living in the Present: Understanding Homicide in
Chicago
, 1870-1930.”
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