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May 26, 1922 Plainfield, New Jersey, United States Died on 29 Oct 2010 (aged 88)
Sociologist and criminologist
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About Gresham Sykes
- Gresham M'Cready Sykes (May 26, 1922 – October 29, 2010) 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.
