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Also Known As Gresham M’Cready Sykes
Born May 26, 1922 • Plainfield • New Jersey
Died October 29, 2010 (aged 88) • Charlottesville • Virginia
Notable Works “Juvenile Delinquency and Subterranean Values” • “Techniques of Neutralization: A Theory of Delinquency” • “The Society of Captives”
Subjects Of Study delinquency • deviance • prison
Eleanor Glueck
American criminologist
Sheldon Glueck
American criminologist
Marshall B. Clinard
American sociologist and criminologist
Marvin Wolfgang
American criminologist
Walter Reckless
American criminologist
Travis Hirschi
American criminologist
Howard S. Becker
American sociologist
Gabriel Tarde, c. 1899.
Gabriel Tarde
French sociologist
Robert Lynd
American sociologist
Helen Lynd
American sociologist
Robert D. Bullard
Robert D. Bullard
American sociologist and environmental activist
Mirra Komarovsky
Russian-born sociologist
Andrew Greeley
Andrew Greeley
American priest, sociologist, educator, commentator, and author
Elsie Clews Parsons.
Elsie Clews Parsons
American anthropologist
Todd Gitlin
American political activist and author
Hannah Kent Schoff
American social worker and reformer
Balch, Emily Greene
Emily Greene Balch
American political scientist
Elihu Katz
American sociologist
James S. Coleman
American sociologist
Robert K. Merton
American sociologist