Arthur Cleveland Hall

Arthur Cleveland Hall (1865–1910) was an American scholar of sociology and criminology associated with Columbia University. He studied sociology there and later taught criminology at Johns Hopkins University and sociology at Columbia.

Hall wrote Crime in Its Relations to Social Progress, published by Columbia University Press in 1902, and Civilization through Crime, issued as part of Columbia’s influential studies in history, economics, and public law. He also contributed book reviews to Political Science Quarterly.

His writing explored crime not only as a legal problem but also as a subject shaped by social conditions, institutions, and changing ideas about punishment. Although little biographical information about his life is readily available, his published work places him among the early American thinkers who helped develop criminology as a field of study.