biography
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Sutherland, Edwin Hardin
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1883–1950)
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| biography:
| Sociologist and criminologist, born in Gibbon, Nebraska, USA. The son of a college president, he taught for most of his career at the University of Indiana (1935–50), chairing the sociology department (1935–49). His textbook, Criminology (1924), became a standard, undergoing four editions by 1947. This work codified the ‘multiple factors’ known to be associated with crime and criminality, and argued that criminal behaviour was learned. He shattered the class-oriented study of crime with The Professional Thief (1937) and White Collar Crime (1949), coining the term white collar crime. |
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