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Gresham M. Sykes


Born
in Plainfield, New Jersey, The United States
May 26, 1922

Died
October 29, 2010


Gresham M'Cready Sykes was a leading American sociologist and criminologist best known for The Society of Captives, a foundational text in prison sociology. He also coauthored the influential Techniques of Neutralization theory. Sykes taught at several major universities and conducted pioneering research on incarceration and delinquency. ...more

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The Society of Captives: A ...
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Crime and Society
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The future of crime
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Social problems in America
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“to say that man is a social animal is also to say that man never lives in a world completely of his own choosing.”
― Gresham M. Sykes, The Society of Captives: A Study of a Maximum Security Prison
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