Contains departmental records, including materials relating to the School of Criminology Advisory Committee (1960-1969); materials on alumni; materials related to a Associated Students of the University of California review of the school; materials on the criminology program (some pre-dating the founded of the school); school reports and program information; materials relating to Tony Platt (approximately 1970); the President's report on the School of Criminology; meeting minutes, assorted criminology publications; and newsletters (1965-1975).

The University of California, Berkeley School of Criminology was established in 1950. Its origins go back to the police science programs run by August Vollmer at the University of California between 1916 and 1931. In 1931, a criminology program was established and in 1939 a Bureau of Criminology was established in the political science department. The School of Criminology's first master's degree was awarded in 1949 and the first Ph.D. in 1963. Early objectives of the School revolved around career preparation for policy and administrative positions in criminal and juvenile justice. Towards the end of the 1950s, when Joseph Lohman (who had both experience in law enforcement and academic training in sociology) was hired, the focus of the school began to shift. The school's faculty started focusing on the relationships between crime and social structures. By the middle of the 1960s, the School, with faculty members like Tony Platt, became a center of the radical criminology movement and remained so until its controversial closure by Chancellor Albert Bowker in 1974.

5 linear feet (4 boxes)

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