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Kirchwey, George Washington

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Kirchwey, George Washington (1855–1942)

US law educator, criminologist, and penologist. He helped elevate criminology to a scientific discipline while fighting for prisoner rehabilitation through state and national prison reform commissions. He taught at Columbia Law School (1891–1916) before heading the New York School of Social Work's criminology department (1918–32). Kirchwey was born in Detroit, Michigan. One of the first presidents of the American League for the Abolition of Capital Punishment (from 1927), he was also a pacifist and cinema enthusiast.



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