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Sykes, Gresham M'Cready was born on May 26, 1922 in Plainfield, New Jersey, United States. Son of M'Cready and Beatrice (Evans) Sykes.
( The Society of Captives, first published in 1958, is a...)
The Society of Captives, first published in 1958, is a classic of modern criminology and one of the most important books ever written about prison. Gresham Sykes wrote the book at the height of the Cold War, motivated by the world's experience of fascism and communism to study the closest thing to a totalitarian system in American life: a maximum security prison. His analysis calls into question the extent to which prisons can succeed in their attempts to control every facet of life--or whether the strong bonds between prisoners make it impossible to run a prison without finding ways of "accommodating" the prisoners. Re-released now with a new introduction by Bruce Western and a new epilogue by the author, The Society of Captives will continue to serve as an indispensable text for coming to terms with the nature of modern power.
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Sykes, Gresham M'Cready was born on May 26, 1922 in Plainfield, New Jersey, United States. Son of M'Cready and Beatrice (Evans) Sykes.
AB summa cum laude, Princeton University, 1950. Doctor of Philosophy (Woodrow Wilson fellow 1950-1951, University fellow 1951-1952), Northwestern University, 1953. Master of Arts (honorary), Dartmouth College, 1961.
Instructor sociology Princeton University, 1952-1954, assistant professor, bicentennial preceptor, 1954-1958. Associate professor Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1958-1960. Professor sociology Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1960-1963, chairman department, 1961-1963.
Executive officer American Sociological Association, 1963-1965. Research professor law and sociology, director administration of justice program University Denver, 1965-1972. Chairman department sociology University Houston, 1973.
Professor sociology University Virginia, Charlottesville, 1974-1988, chairman department, 1978-1981, emeritus professor, from 1988. Chairman Salzburg (Austria) Seminar in American Studies, summer 1965. Working as artist, with frequent group and one-man exhibition, since 1988.
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Served to captain, C.E. Army of the United States, 1942-1946, European Theatre of Operations.
Married Carla Adelt, July 13, 1946.