DRAPKIN (Senderey), ISRAEL
- DRAPKIN (Senderey), ISRAEL
- DRAPKIN (Senderey), ISRAEL (1906–1990),
Israeli criminologist and physician. Drapkin, who pioneered
criminological studies in Latin America, was born in Rosario, Argentina.
In 1936 he established the first Criminological Institute in Chile, and
in 1950 the chair of criminology at the University of Chile. He advised
on the establishment of other national institutes of criminology,
particularly in Venezuela, Costa Rica, and Mexico. Drapkin settled in
Israel in 1959 and established the chair of criminology and the
Institute of Criminology at the Hebrew University. His publications
include Manual de Criminología (1949) and Prensa y
Criminalidad (1958).
(Zvi Hermon)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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