Max Grünhut

Max Grünhut (* July 7, 1893 in Magdeburg, † February 6, 1964 in Oxford ) was a criminal lawyer and criminologist. He was born a German, stigmatized because of his religious affiliation as a Jew and persecuted so brutally that he was no longer safe in Germany of his life. He then fled to the UK and chose British citizenship.

Grünhut taught as a professor at the University of Bonn, but lost by National Socialism his chair and emigrated in 1939 in the United Kingdom. At Oxford University, he was, next to Hermann Mannheim and Leon Radzinowicz, one of the most important British criminologists. He voted for an interaction of Criminal Policy, penology and criminology.

Writings (selection )

• Anselm Feuerbach and the problem of criminal attribution, Hamburg 1922 ( reprint 1978)
• With Lothar Frede, reform of the penal system: Critical Contributions to the official draft penal law, Berlin: W. de Gruyter & Co., 1927
• Penal Reform: A comparative study, London: Oxford University Press, 1948
• Juvenile offenders before the courts, Clarendon Press, 1956
• The selection of offenders for probation, United Nations Dept. of Economic and Social Affairs, 1959