---
title: "Leon Radzinowicz"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Leon Radzinowicz"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-07-25T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["Bloody Code","grand larceny","William Blackstone","capital punishment (Georgian England)"]
---


Criminologist and legal historian whose *A History of English Criminal Law and Its Administration from 1750* (Vol. 1, 1948) is the standard scholarly enumeration of England's eighteenth-century capital statutes — the count later retellings, including for a time this vault's own note, cite secondhand without going back to his archival tally. He matters here because a Tier 1 primary read of his own text, not a paraphrase of it, is what let the vault's Bloody Code growth figures (about fifty capital offenses in 1688, roughly 200-223 by 1819-1828) clear the sourcing floor for quantitative claims.

## References
- [[claim-englands-bloody-code-made-petty-property-theft-a-capital-crime]]
- [[claim-12-pence-grand-larceny-threshold-is-common-law-not-a-bloody-code-statute]]