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Margaret A. Zahn is an American sociologist and criminologist at North Carolina State University.She received her PhD in sociology from the Ohio State University in 1969. Zahn has served as president of the American Society of Criminology and has received Fellow of the American Society of Criminology for Outstanding Lifetime Career Achievement.
Adler conducted a follow-up to her Wheeling and Dealing [5] research, in which she followed upper level drug dealers and smugglers in the 1970s. [4] [6] In earlier writings, Adler described their criminal careers, attempts, which were often temporary and unsuccessful, to leave the drug world after years of trafficking, and the ways they found to make a living for themselves. [6]
Jack Levin (born June 28, 1941) specializes in research on murder, prejudice and hate, sociology of aging and sociology of conflict at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. [1] He has interviewed and corresponded with brutal killers, such as the Hillside Strangler and Charles Manson , and other violent criminals: serial killers and ...
Anthony Walsh is an American criminologist and professor emeritus at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho.He was educated at Eastern Michigan University (B.A. in sociology, 1975), the University of Toledo (M.A. in medical sociology, 1977), and Bowling Green State University (Ph.D. in criminology, 1983). [1]
Messner was elected a fellow of the American Society of Criminology in 2002, and served as its president from 2010 to 2011. [5] He has served as the chair of the Crime, Law, and Deviance Section of the American Sociological Association and on the executive committee for the Eastern Sociological Society. [6]
Frances Mary Heidensohn (born 14 July 1942) is an academic sociologist and criminologist at the London School of Economics, who is acknowledged as a pioneer in feminist criminology. [1] Her 1968 article The Deviance of Women: A Critique and An Enquiry was the first critique of conventional criminology from a feminist perspective.
At Penn, Wolfgang took his MA (1950) and PhD (1955) in sociology/criminology. Until his death in 1998 he was a professor of criminology at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1964, he published The Measurement of Delinquency , which was the first study of the true impact of crime on society.
Carol Christine Smart [1] CBE (born 20 December 1948 [2]) is a feminist sociologist and academic at the University of Manchester. [3] [4] She has also conducted research about divorce and children of divorced couples.