The Criminology of Edwin Sutherland

by John F. Galliher and Mark S. Gaylord

Book Overview

Edwin Sutherland is the acknowledged father of American criminology. This is the first full-length analysis of his work and his person. Unlike the European schools of criminology, which sought to locate deviant behavior within the deep structures of the economy, Sutherland eschewed such explanations in favor of proximate and observable causes. He located the sources of crime in the association and interaction of specific groups of people. For Sutherland,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887381812
• ISBN13: 9780887381812
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.