Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index August Vollmer (1876 - 1955) was a former Berkeley, California police chief who, during the 1920s, persuaded the University of California to teach criminal justice. This is often seen as the start of criminal justice, as an academic field. See also: William H. Parker, Orlando W. Wilson This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.