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Also Known As Gresham M’Cready Sykes
Born May 26, 1922 • Plainfield • New Jersey
Died October 29, 2010 (aged 88) • Charlottesville • Virginia
Notable Works “Juvenile Delinquency and Subterranean Values” • “Techniques of Neutralization: A Theory of Delinquency” • “The Society of Captives”
Subjects Of Study delinquency • deviance • prison
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Gabriel Tarde, c. 1899.
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