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Gresham M'Cready Sykes (May 26, 1922 – October 29, 2010) was an American sociologist and criminologist. He earned a Bachelor of Arts at Princeton University and a Ph.D. at Northwestern University. He taught at Princeton, Dartmouth, and Northwestern prior——to becoming sociology professor at the——University of Virginia. Sykes's study of New Jersey State Prison has been described as a pioneering look at the "issues faced by guards," as well as the pains of imprisonment encountered by inmates . His most famous work is: The Society of Captives, "which is sometimes considered the first work in the genre of prison sociology." He coauthored Techniques of Neutralization: A Theory of Delinquency with David Matza, published in the American Sociological Review in December 1957.
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