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58 Med. Sci. & L. 3 (2018)

handle is hein.journals/mdsclw58 and id is 1 raw text is: Obituary Herschel Prins Image reproduced with permission from Taylor & Francis. Originally produced in The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, March 2007; 18(1): 127-133. Herschel Prins was not a doctor, a lawyer or a foren- sic scientist (although he was a distinguished social scientist), but there is no doubting his outstanding and unique contributions to medicine, science and the law. He had a profound influence on the develop- ment of criminology and forensic psychiatry in the twentieth century. That influence continued until his death on 2 May 2016 at the age of 87 years and it continues through the rich legacy of his publications, read by students of the various disciplines whose boundaries his own career crossed, and the work of his countless students who recall him as a meticulous, stimulating and inspirational teacher. His father was a social worker and had been Superintendent of the Jewish Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society. Herschel was orphaned in his teens and left school at the age of 16 years. He says that it was through the kind offices of his father's relatives that he was saved from being institutionalised in what were still the days of the Poor Law. In his early twenties he joined the Probation Service and in his first post Medicine, Science and the Low 2018, Vol. 58(I) 3-4 @ The Author(s) 2018 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.ul/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0025802418756797 journals.sagepub.com/home/msI tSAGE he found himself supervising people on probation with a condition of residence for their mental treat- ment and he came under the influenced of the distin- guished criminologist, Donald West. His interest in this group of people led him to train as a psychiatric social worker at the London School of Economics. Upon qualification he was appointed to a post at Stamford House Remand Home for Boys. There he came under the influence of Peter Scott, one of the founding fathers of forensic psychiatry, and whose influence crystallised Herschel's life-long interest in forensic mental health. Herschel went on to have a distinguished academic career. His first teaching post was at the North West London Polytechnic in Kentish Town. Following a period in the Inspectorate of Probation he moved to Leeds as a lecturer in social work. From 1981 to 1984 he was director of the School of Social Work at the University of Leicester and he went on to become Professor at the Midlands centre for Criminal Justice at Loughborough University. He was an Honorary Professor of the University of Leicester and the University of Birmingham and Visiting Professor at Nottingham Trent University. Herschel Prins was a prolific author. He contributed many of his thoughtful and thought-provoking papers to Medicine, Science and the Law and he was until his death a UK Consulting Editor. He was also a regular contributor to the Criminal Law Review, The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, The Probation Journal and the Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology. There must be few professionals in forensic mental health whose training and education has not included reading Offenders, Deviants or Patients? He will also be remembered by those who have read, and hopefully those who will go on to read, Bizarre Behaviours, Fire-Raising, Will they do it again?, Psychopaths and his autobiographical Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know. At a national level Herschel was a member of the Parole Board, the Mental Health Review Tribunal and the Mental Health Act Commission. He chaired three Committees of Inquiry into the care and management of mentally disordered offenders. He chaired the Mental Health Advisory Committee of the National

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