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David Matza was an American sociologist and criminologist associated with interpretive approaches to deviance and juvenile delinquency. With Gresham Sykes, he developed the concept of techniques of neutralization, describing justifications that allow offenders temporarily to set aside conventional m...
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Drift and neutralization theories remain core criminology concepts; strong theoretical influence.
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Gresham M. Sykes was an American sociologist and criminologist known for research on prisons, punishment, and delinquency. The Society of Captives, published in 1958, analyzes the social order of a maximum-security prison and describes the deprivations experienced by incarcerated people as the "pain...
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Neutralization theory and prison sociology are important; respected but less broadly known than Sutherland.
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