The Structure of American Criminological Thinking

Abstract

The writer's contact, as a student, with the late Dr. Edwin H. Sutherland, and with Dr. Joseph Schneider of Indiana University, resulted in a research project designed to study the relationship between crime and social structure, in an effort to transcend the study of the individual offender. In the last seminar offered prior to his death in 1950 Sutherland put forth this idea; however, this aspect of his work has been largely ignored by his former students. The writer made a study of law and English society in an effort to relate crime to social organization and social change. He is currently making a similar study of white-collar crime. He is a member of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology in the Southern Illinois University. This article is an abstract of the first part of an unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, An Institutional Approach to a Theory of Crime, Department of Sociology, Indiana University, 1954. The writer is greatly indebted to Joseph Schneider and the late Edwin H. Sutherland, under whose joint direction this project was undertaken, and whose ideas have contributed to the development of the paper.-EDITOR.

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