Background
Reiss, Albert John was born on December 9, 1922 in Cascade, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Albert John and Erma Amanda (Schueler) Reiss.
( Riding with patrol cars in four major northern cities, ...)
Riding with patrol cars in four major northern cities, walking with policemen on the beat, observing what goes on in police stations, analyzing who telephones the police, what crimes are reported, who reports them, and why, Albert J. Reiss, Jr., seeks to understand the ways in which we can make our society more civil, our police more humane, our population more responsible. Reiss devotes most of his first chapter to describing the experiences of two police officers during an ordinary night in a patrol car. He then considers the many ways in which police and public interact – and how and why they often do not. In a chapter entitled “Police Manners and Morals,” the author investigates situations where policemen may themselves break the law – and how such actions relate to the subculture of an individual neighborhood or beat. Finally, Reiss outlines his understanding of how we may become a more civil society, presenting his view that the morality of the public and the morality of the police are intimately related, that one cannot be expected to improve unless the other does.
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Reiss, Albert John was born on December 9, 1922 in Cascade, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Albert John and Erma Amanda (Schueler) Reiss.
Student, Mission House College, 1939-1942; Bachelor of Philosophy, Marquette U., 1944; Master of Arts, University of Chicago, 1948; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1949; Doctor of Laws (honorary), CUNY, 1980; Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Montreal, 1985.
From instructor sociology to assistant professor, University of Chicago, 1947-1952;
associate director, Chicago Community Inventory-University of Chicago, 1948-1951;
acting director, Chicago Community Inventory-University of Chicago, 1951-1952;
associate professor sociology, Vanderbilt University, 1952-1958;
professor, Vanderbilt University, 1954-1958;
department chairman, Vanderbilt University, 1952-1958;
professor sociology and director, Iowa Urban Cmty. Research Center-State University Iowa, 1958-1960;
professor sociology, director survey research laboratories, University of Wisconsin, 1960-1961;
professor sociology, director, University of Michigan Center for Research on Social Organisation, Ann Arbor, 1961-1970, department chairman, 1970;
professor sociology, Yale University, since 1970;
professor social science Institute Social and Political Science, Yale University, 1970-1987;
William Graham Sumner professor, Yale University, since 1977;
department chairman, Yale University, 1972-1980, 85-89. Chairman Census Committee on Enumeration Areas, Chicago, 1950-1952, Nashville, 1952-1958.
Member technical advising committee Chicago Plan Commission, 1951-1952. Consultant United States Air Force Human Resources Research Institute, 1952-1954.
( Riding with patrol cars in four major northern cities, ...)
Served as private, meteorology program A.C., Army of the United States, 1943-1944. Fellow American Sociological Association (chairman methodology section 1960, county and Executive Committee 1962-1965), Sociological Research Association (president 1969), American Statistical Association. Member NAS (chairman), Ohio Valley Sociological Society (president 1966), American Society Criminology (president 1983-1984), Society for Study Social Problems (president 1968), Social Research (president 1949), International Society Criminology (science commission 1982-1989, president science commission 1985-1989, president 1990-1995).
Children: Peter C., Paul Wetherington, Amy.