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Steven Barkan (born 1951) is an American sociologist, professor and chairperson of the Sociology department at the University of Maine. [1]Barkan is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Trinity College, in Hartford, Connecticut where he studied sociology and later received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in the same field of study.
In the 1980s Williams spent time in Bermuda, working on prison reform and social justice issues while teaching courses in criminology and sociology. [3] From 1996 to 2005 Williams was director of research at the Stone Center at Wellesley College , working in the areas of child sexual abuse , rape, sex offenders, fatal child abuse, and memory of ...
[2] According to Gibson, the term criminology was most likely coined in 1885 by Italian law professor Raffaele Garofalo as Criminologia . [2] In the late 19th century, French anthropologist Paul Topinard used the analogous French term Criminologie . [3] Criminology grew substantially as a discipline in the first quarter of the twentieth century.
His publications include 12 books on his various research topics and 55 or more articles, chapters and reports. His books are as follows: Wall, D.S. and Williams, M.L. (2014) (eds) Policing Cybercrime: Networked and Social Media Technologies and the Challenges for Policing, 150+x pp. (ISBN 978-1-138-02527-1)
The Jukes family was a New York "hill family" studied in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The studies are part of a series of other family studies, including the Kallikaks, the Zeros and the Nams, that were often quoted as arguments in support of eugenics, though the original Jukes study, by Richard L. Dugdale, placed considerable emphasis on the environment as a determining factor in ...
[3]: 139 [14] In 1989, David McMahon, a victim who had escaped being thrown from the cliffs, identified Sean Cushman and another person as two members of the group. [15] Neither were charged. [ 3 ] : 162 While they attacked McMahon, they allegedly discussed a similar murder committed at the cliffs a month prior, pointing to them also ...
David Williams is an author, journalist and theologian, based in New Zealand. He gained notoriety following the publication of his 1989 account of the failed drug run and subsequent execution of Australian drug runners, Kevin Barlow and Geoffrey Chambers .
In the fields of sociology and criminology, strain theory is a theoretical perspective that aims to explain the relationship between social structure, social values or goals, and crime. Strain theory was originally introduced by Robert King Merton (1938), and argues that society's dominant cultural values and social structure causes strain ...