biography
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Wilson, James Q(uinn)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1931– )
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| biography:
| Sociologist and criminologist, born in Denver, Colorado, USA. A Chicago PhD, he taught at Harvard (1961–87) and the University of California, Los Angeles (1987). He became identified as a neo-conservative social scientist in works on criminals and the police, including Varieties of Police Behavior (1968) and Thinking about Crime (1975). |
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