12 Facts About Edwin Sutherland

Edwin Hardin Sutherland was an American sociologist.

Edwin Sutherland is considered one of the most influential criminologists of the 20th century.

Edwin Sutherland 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.

Edwin Sutherland completed a PhD at the University of Chicago in 1913.

Edwin Sutherland solidified his reputation as one of the country's leading criminologists at the University of Minnesota, where he worked from 1926 to 1929.

For several months in 1929 Edwin Sutherland studied the British penal system while in England.

In 1930, Edwin Sutherland accepted a position as a research professor at the University of Chicago.

Edwin Sutherland founded the Bloomington School of Criminology at Indiana University.

Edwin Sutherland was elected president of the American Sociological Society in 1939, and president of the Sociological Research Association in 1940.

Edwin Sutherland was the author of the leading text Criminology, published in 1924, first stating the principle of differential association in the third edition retitled Principles of Criminology that the development of habitual patterns of criminality arise from association with those who commit crime rather than with those who do not commit crime.

Edwin Sutherland discussed that the intensity of an individual will determine if a person will agree with their pro-criminal definitions.

Edwin Sutherland remained convinced that social class was a relevant factor, coining the phrase white-collar criminal in a speech to the American Sociological Association on December 27,1939.