Hermann Mannheim

Hermann Mannheim (1889–1974) was a German-British criminologist.

Mannheim fled Germany in the mid-1930s and took up a lectoring post at the London School of Economics. After the Second World War, he became a professor at the LSE.

He published a number of influential books in criminology, including the two-volume textbook, ''Comparative Criminology'' (1965). Mannheim was an editor and cofounder of the British Journal of Criminology (1950–1966).

The Mannheim Centre for Criminology at the London School of Economics is named after him. Provided by Wikipedia