Edwin H. Sutherland

(1883-1950) born in Gibbon, Buffalo County. Sociologist, author of widely known book Criminology (1924) and later his White Collar Crime (1949) extended the definition of "criminal" beyond the traditional violent figure from poverty areas, argued that crime was learned through interaction with others, was educator at Indiana University. Consult Cops, Crooks, and Criminologists: An International Biographical Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Facts on File, 1996) 261 and American National Biography, Vol 21 (1999) 163-164.

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