"In the year 1912, Hans Gross (1847–1915) founded the Criminological Institute at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz, thus contributing decisively to the institutionalisation of Criminology at university level and so becoming one of the ‘fathers of modern scientifi c criminology’. Gross developed an encyclopaedic concept of criminology, unifying practical investigation work and theoretical refl ection under one epistemological roof."(...)