DRAPKIN (Darom), ABRAHAM S.

DRAPKIN (Darom), ABRAHAM S.
DRAPKIN (Darom), ABRAHAM S. (1908–1993), criminologist and Israeli diplomat. Born in Argentina, Drapkin studied in Chile and from 1935 to 1940 was secretary-general of the Chilean Department of Prisons. In 1936 he founded the journal Revista de Ciencias Penales, and a year later helped establish the Chilean Institute of Penal Sciences. He published Jurisprudencia de las Circunstancias Eminentes de Responsabilidad Criminal (1937) and Relación de Causalidad y Delito (1943). In 1948 he immigrated to Israel and entered its foreign service. He represented Israel in Greece, Yugoslavia, Thailand, Mexico, and at the United Nations.

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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