Edwin H. Sutherland | Criminology & Criminal Justice

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Edwin H. Sutherland is widely identified as the single most important and influential criminologist of the twentieth century. He is especially well-known for his path-breaking criminology textbook (first published in 1924) his promotion of a sociological (and scientific) approach to the understanding of crime and its control his theory of differential association and his work over his final ten years on white-collar crime a term he is credited with having introduced. This book explores the contemporary meaning of Edwin Sutherland and considers why criminologists today should continue to engage with his work. What can and should Sutherland mean to future 21st century criminologists those wor…