Edwin H. Sutherland (born August 13, 1883, Gibbon, Nebraska, U.S. died October 11, 1950, Bloomington, Indiana) was an American sociologist. He is considered as one of the most influential criminologists of the twentieth century. He was a sociologist of the symbolic interactionist school of thought and is best known for defining differential association which is a general theory of crime and delinquency that explains how deviants come to learn the motivations and the technical knowledge for deviant or criminal activity. Sutherland earned his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago in 1913.
Works :
- Sutherland, Edwin H. (1924) 'Principles of Criminology' Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Sutherland, Edwin H. (1936) With Locke, H.J. '24,000 Homeless Men' Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott
- Sutherland, Edwin H. (1942) `Development of the Theory,' in Karl Schuessler (ed.) Edwin H. Sutherland on Analyzing Crime, pp. 13-29. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Sutherland, Edwin H. (1949) 'White Collar Crime' New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston.
- Sutherland, Edwin H. (1950) 'The Diffusion of Sexual Psychopath Laws' American Journal of Sociology, Issue 56: pp. 142-8
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