The Hans Toch Memorial Collection
Hans Herbert Toch (April 17, 1930 – June 18, 2021) . In a 1986 profile of Distinguished Professor Toch, published by the University at Albany magazine, Hans had produced by then much of what many professors would hope to achieve in a lifetime. To paraphrase one of his serious offenders, who said “I am not now what I used to be then,” Hans might have said today, “I am now more of who I used to be then.” Hans was already prolific in 1986, and never slowed down (except for a couple of weeks when he had triple bypass surgery). The major part of his career was at the School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany where he spawned innovative research both in substance and methodology. Many of his students went on to become great researchers and communicators themselves. In short, Professor Toch became much more of what he was then.
About this collection. It is roughly divided into three: (1) Hans’s unpublished, pre-published and draft papers; (2) Full text to the extent possible of all Professor Toch’s publications (3) Full text of his library of conference proceedings, research reports, and the many classic texts he kept in his library.le to
Our thanks to Hans’s daughter Michelle Dinsmore for permission to make this treasure trove available to all.
