Lloyd Edgar Ohlin (1918-2008) served on the Harvard Law School faculty from 1967 to 2008. He was a Professor of Criminology 1967-1973; Roscoe Pound Professor of Criminology 1973-1981; Touroff-Glueck Professor in Criminal Justice 1981-1982; and an Emeritus professor 1982-2008.
Research: Criminal procedure, juvenile law, law and society, law enforcement and administration of justice.
Education: Brown University A.B. 1940; Indiana University M.A. 1942; University of Chicago Ph.D. 1954.
Selected Scholarship / Representative Publications: “Selection for Parole” (1951); “Sociology and the Field of Corrections” (1956); “Delinquency and Opportunity” (co-author, first published 1960); “A Theory of Social Reform” (co-author, 1977); “Delinquency and Community” (co-author, 1985); “Human Development and Criminal Behavior” (co-author, 1991).
Noteworthy Appointments: Professor of Sociology and Director of Research Center, Columbia University School of Social Work, 1956-1967; Consultant, American Bar Foundation’s Survey of the Administration of Criminal Justice in the U.S., 1957; Associate Director, President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice, 1965-1967; President, American Society of Criminology, 1986; received Bruce Smith, Sr. Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, 1992.