Max Grünhut
Born(1893-07-07)7 July 1893
Died6 February 1964(1964-02-06) (aged 70)
NationalityGerman-British
Scientific career
FieldsLegal studies, criminology

Max Grünhut (7 July 1893 – 6 February 1964) was a German-British legal scholar and criminologist. Of Jewish descent, he emigrated to the United Kingdom to escape Nazism in 1939. Prior to that, he was held a professorship at the University of Bonn.

In England, he taught at the University of Oxford, becoming one of the most important British criminologists of his era, along with fellow emigrants Hermann Mannheim and Leon Radzinowicz.

Works

  • (1948). Penal Reform: a Comparative Study. Oxford.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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