George Kelling

George Lee Kelling (August 21, 1935 – May 15, 2019) was an American criminologist, a professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University–Newark, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, and a
fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He previously taught at Northeastern University.

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Kelling attended Luther Seminary, Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary to study theology for two years, but earned no degree. He received a Bachelor of Arts, B.A. in philosophy from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, an M.S.W. from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and a Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D. in social welfare from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1973, under Alfred Kadushin.

Early in his career, he was a child care mental health counselor, counselor and a probation officer, but his later career was spent in academia. The author of numerous articles, he developed the broken windows theory with James Q. Wilson and Kelling's wife, Catherine M. Coles. Kelling died in Hanover, New Hampshire on May 15, 2019 from complications of cancer at the age of 83.

Personal life

Kelling was married twice, first to Sally Jean Mosiman, from whom he became divorced, and then to Catherine M. Coles, an attorney and a lawyer and anthropologist studying urban issues and criminal prosecution, whom Kelling married in 1982.

References

External links

Kelling's page at Rutgers–Newark


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1935 births
2019 deaths
Writers from Milwaukee
People from Minnesota
People from Boston
American criminologists
Northeastern University faculty
Rutgers University faculty
Harvard University staff
Luther Seminary alumni
St. Olaf College alumni
University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Social Work alumni
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee alumni
Probation and parole officers
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
Deaths from cancer in New Hampshire

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