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558 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 7 (1998)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0558 and id is 1 raw text is: IN MEMORIAM It is with great sadness and regret that the American Academy takes note of the death of its president, Marvin E. Wolfgang. Dr. Wolfgang served as president of the Academy from 1972 until his untimely death at age 73 in April of this year. Dr. Wolfgang was director of the Sellin Center for Studies in Criminology and Criminal Law of the University of Pennsylvania, where he continued a long and extremely influential tradition of quantitative and theoretical stud- ies in the sociology of crime. His early study in 1958, Patterns of Criminal Homicide, began a lifelong practice of grounding criminology in a strong empirical base that was to shape research in the field and forever change our understanding of murderers and their victims. Another of his early studies, The Measurement of Delinquency (1964), jointly authored with Thorsten Sellin, his mentor and the longtime editor of The Annals, set a standard for judging the seriousness of delinquent behavior. Delinquency in a Birth Cohort, with T. Sellin and R. Figlio, published in 1972, became a model for quantitative studies combining longitudinal and cross-sectional data aimed at understanding the relationship of society, delinquency, and criminal behavior. For the last 10 years, Dr. Wolfgang carried on a collaborative study of a delinquency cohort in China modeled on this and other studies. Among his many honors, Dr. Wolfgang received two Guggenheim Fellow- ships, a Fulbright Scholarship, the Dennis Carrol Prize from the Interna- tional Society of Criminology, the very prestigious August Vollmer Research Award from the American Society of Criminology, the Beccaria Gold Medal for outstanding contribution to criminology from the German, Austrian and Swiss Society of Criminology, and honorary doctor of law degrees from the City University of New York and the Academia Mexicana de Derecho Inter- nacional. He was the first recipient of an award established in his name by Guardsmark, Inc., for distinguished achievement in criminology. His contri- butions to criminology were perhaps best summarized in 1994 by the British Journal of Criminology, which called him the most influential criminologist in the English-speaking world. This influence was extended through his scholarship, his very active involvement in public policy including service on many national commissions, his strong opposition to the death penalty, and a large number of students who have carried on his tradition of quantitative criminology and involvement in public policy. As president of the Academy, Dr. Wolfgang organized many outstanding Annual Meetings on a variety of national and international subjects, includ- ing a major meeting celebrating the U.S. bicentennial. During a period of increasing academic specialization, Dr. Wolfgang helped guide the Academy toward maintaining the unique position of The Annals, a position that was 7

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