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Born November 14, 1924 • Pennsylvania
Died April 12, 1998 (aged 73) • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania
Notable Works “Delinquency in a Birth Cohort” • “Patterns in Criminal Homicide” • “The Subculture of Violence: Towards an Integrated Theory in Criminology”
Subjects Of Study delinquency
Sheldon Glueck
American criminologist
Eleanor Glueck
American criminologist
Walter Reckless
American criminologist
Gresham M. Sykes
American criminologist
Travis Hirschi
American criminologist
Marshall B. Clinard
American sociologist and criminologist
Hannah Kent Schoff
American social worker and reformer
Quinney, Richard
Richard Quinney
American philosopher and criminologist
Edwin Sutherland
American criminologist
Franz Alexander
Hungarian physician and psychoanalyst
William Sheldon
American psychologist
Ronald L. Akers
American criminologist
Lindsey, Ben B.
Ben B. Lindsey
American jurist
Albert Cohen
American criminologist
Cesare Beccaria
Cesare Beccaria
Italian criminologist
Gabriel Tarde, c. 1899.
Gabriel Tarde
French sociologist
Alfredo Niceforo
Italian sociologist
Cesare Lombroso
Italian criminologist
Sir John Fielding
British police reformer
Michael Clarke
American musician