Alper, Benedict Solomon, 1905-1994
Benedict S. Alper, a respected criminologist and author who was visiting professor in the Sociology Department for 25 years, died Jan. 6 at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He was 88. Alper came to the University in 1966, after working in a variety of professional settings. These included stints as a probation officer at the Boston Juvenile Court and Charlestown State Prison, as first chief of the United Nations Criminal Justice and Crime Prevention Unit and as a faculty member at the New School for Social Research in New York...
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Renowned criminologist and former BC sociology professor Benedict S. Alper died January 7 at Brigham and Women's Hospital of cardio-respiratory failure. He was 88. After graduating from Harvard University in 1927, Alper did graduate work in criminology before working at the Boston Juvenile Court and Charlestown State Prison as a probation officer. Alper later went on to work at the United States Bureau of Prisons. Alper served in the U.S. Army during World War 11, managing prison s for the m i Ii tary.'He subsequently became the first chief of the Criminal Justice and Crime Prevention Unit for the United Nations...
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Name Entry: Alper, Benedict Solomon, 1905-1994
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