Background
Edwin was born on August 13, 1883 in Gibbon, Nebraska, United States. He was the son of George Sutherland, a college president, and Elizabeth Tarr (Pickett) Sutherland.
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Edwin was born on August 13, 1883 in Gibbon, Nebraska, United States. He was the son of George Sutherland, a college president, and Elizabeth Tarr (Pickett) Sutherland.
Sutherland graduated from Grand Island (Nebraska) College in 1904. Then in 1911 he enrolled in the University of Chicago's pioneering graduate program in sociology and two years later was awarded the Ph. D. His dissertation dealt with the practices of public employment agencies, and in collecting the data he disguised himself as an unemployed derelict.
After graduating from Grand Island (Nebraska) College in 1904, he immediately began teaching at Sioux Falls (South Dakota) College, giving classes in Greek, geometry, and short-hand.
In 1909 he returned to his alma mater as an instructor. From 1913 to 1919, Sutherland was professor of sociology at William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri, where he taught courses on crime and delinquency.
In 1919 Sutherland moved to the University of Illinois as an assistant professor of sociology. He subsequently held professorships at the University of Minnesota (1926 - 1929), the University of Chicago (1930 - 1935), and Indiana University (1935 - 1950).
He was also chairman of Indiana's department of sociology until 1949. The book through which Sutherland became widely known in behavioral science was Criminology, written while he was at Illinois and published in 1924. By 1947 it had gone through four editions. (Five additional editions, with Donald R. Cressey as coauthor, have appeared posthumously in 1955, 1960, 1966, 1970, and 1974. )
The subject matter of the book, Sutherland later recalled, was suggested by Edward Carey Hayes, chairman of Illinois's sociology department, who had decreed that at least one member of his staff must write a book to enhance the department's scholarly reputation. Hayes included this text in the Lippincott Sociological Series, of which he was editor. Sutherland's criminological theory is an extension of the basic sociological and socialpsychological theory of his time.
He did not consider criminology an independent scientific discipline. Neither did he think it should continue as a hodgepodge of ideas taken from various academic disciplines and from the morals of the middle class. Instead, he maintained that if criminology is to be scientific, the heterogeneous collection of "multiple factors" known to be associated with crime and criminality must be organized and integrated by means of explanatory social scientific principles. His "theory of differential association, " which first appeared as a chapter in the 1939 edition of his textbook, supplied the organizing and integrating framework. The development of this theory, like most of Sutherland's work, was greatly influenced by the writings and teachings of the sociologists William I. Thomas, John Dewey, and George Herbert Mead.
For these men and for Sutherland, meaning, language, and culture were closely interrelated.
Specifically, he produced critical masterpieces such as his review of studies on "Mental Deficiency and Crime" (1931), of Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck's Later Criminal Careers (1937), of E. A. Hooton's The American Criminal (1939), and of William H. Sheldon's Varieties of Delinquent Youth (1951).
His White Collar Crime (1949) exemplified his thesis that scientific research should lay stress on a search for negative cases.
Edwin Hardin Sutherland is considered as one of the most influential criminologists of the 20th century. He was a sociologist of the symbolic interactionist school of thought and is best known for defining white-collar crime and differential association, a general theory of crime and delinquency. During his time at Indiana, he published four books, including Twenty Thousand Homeless Men (1936), The Professional Thief (1937), the third edition of Principles of Criminology (1939), and the censored first edition of White Collar Crime (1949), his masterpiece.
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He noted in Criminology and in various journal articles that any general explanation of criminality necessarily would be imprecise because such a wide variety of acts are crimes. Nevertheless, he insisted, if one sets for himself the task of formulating a general theory of criminal behavior, he should do a good job of it.
There should be no categories of behavior standing as glaring exceptions to the general explanation. He invented the concept of "white-collar crime" specifically to stress the fact that law violations by persons of respectability and high social status were being overlooked by theoreticians.
He agreed, that one learns behavior (culture) as one is learning language and meaning. Further, Sutherland said, criminal behavior is learned through the same processes that are involved in any other learning. In both a very specific sense and in a quite general sense, Sutherland was a severe critic.
Quotations:
In his 1949 monograph White-Collar Crime he defined a white-collar crime "approximately as a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation. "
"Quite obviously, the hypothesis that crime is due to personal and social pathologies does not apply to white-collar crimes, and if pathologies do not explain these crimes they are not essential factors in crimes which ordinarily confront police departments and criminal and juvenile courts. In contrast with such explanations, the hypothesis of differential association and social disorganization may apply to white-collar crimes as well as to the crimes of the lower class".
He was a member of the American Sociological Society in 1939, and a member of the Sociological Research Association in 1940.
On May, 11, 1918 he married Myrtle Crews. They had one child, Betty Ann.
