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Gresham Sykes

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Sociologist and criminologist

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Gresham Sykes
Criminal Justice
#41
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#50
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#25
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Criminology
#32
World Rank
#40
Historical Rank
#16
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Sociology
#505
World Rank
#614
Historical Rank
#232
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According to Wikipedia, Gresham M'Cready Sykes was an American sociologist and criminologist. He earned a Bachelor of Arts at Princeton University and a Ph.D. at Northwestern University. He taught at Princeton, Dartmouth, and Northwestern prior to becoming sociology professor at the University of Virginia. Sykes's study of New Jersey State Prison has been described as a pioneering look at the issues faced by guards, as well as the pains of imprisonment encountered by inmates . His most famous work is The Society of Captives, which is sometimes considered the first work in the genre of prison sociology. He coauthored Techniques of Neutralization: A Theory of Delinquency with David Matza, published in the American Sociological Review in December 1957.

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