Division History

The Division of Policing and the History of the American Society of Criminology (ASC)

Did you know that the ASC began with August Vollmer and a group of policing scholars and practitioners interested in advancing policing and police research? Read more about this history here with Albert Morris’s 1975 Criminology article detailing ASC’s history from 1941-1974 and here with Edward Petty’s 1959 account of the early history of ASC. The Oxford University Press blog post by Cody Telep entitled: “Back to the future with the ASC’s new Division of Policing” also charts the history of ASC and the founding of the Division of Policing.