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Kirk, Paul Leland
1902–6/5/1970
AMERICAN
CRIMINOLOGIST
Paul Leland Kirk is a leader in establishing criminology as an academic discipline. He worked as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), for forty-three years, making advances to the university's program and conducting important research in the field.
Kirk also wrote the groundbreaking textbook Crime Investigation. In addition, he consulted on many criminal cases, including the well-known murder trial of Sam Sheppard.
Early on, Kirk became known for his work as a microchemist.
He found microchemistry had practical applications in two areas—tissue culture studies and criminalistics .
Paul l kirk biography of abraham lincoln
Through his work at UCB, Kirk began to develop a more structured and scientific approach to the study of criminalistics. As a result, in 1937, he was selected to head the criminology program at the university. Eight years later, he established a major in technical criminology.
Then, in 1950, he worked wi