Description: Edwin Sutherland is the acknowledged father of American criminology
Brief description:
Mark S. Gaylord is senior lecturer in sociology at the City Polytechnic of Hong Kong. He is coauthor of The Criminology of Edwin Sutherland, published by Transaction.
Review Quotes:
"[A]n exceptionally fine work in intellectual history. It was, and is, clearly a work of love; love of the man (Sutherland), for the discipline, and of ideas. It is inordinately well written, flows smoothly, and captures the reader's interest... Dealing as they (the authors) do with Sutherland the man as well as the central idea of Sutherland's work, they put flesh on bones as well as illuminate the process of discovery."
-- William Chambliss, George Washington University
"[The Criminology of Edwin Sutherland] is a well-documented and well-researched examination of Sutherland's theoretical development and of the theory of differential association... Gaylord and Galliher have put together a remarkably thorough and quite readable work. I particularly encourage its reading by graduate students in criminology and criminal justice."
--Frank P. Williams III, California State University, San Bernardino
"Gaylord and Galliher provide a long needed detailing in one source of the life and career evolution of the 'Father of American Criminology.' Their coverage brings to vivid life the legend of Edwin Sutherland, portraying him as a man who like all men had his personal strengths and weaknesses, a man of vision and drive but also one of insecurity and doubt. The work has the added advantage of being as much a history of American Criminology as it is a history of Sutherland's life and ideas."
-- Randy martin, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
"Gaylore and Galliher provide an interesting intellectual biography of the most well known criminologist in the field. It s a sign of healthy development and maturity that criminology has begun such self-examination of its core ideas."
-- John H. Laub, Northeastern University