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Edwin H. Sutherland  

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  • Edwin H. Sutherland is universally acknowledged as the father of American criminology. He wrote the first true textbook on criminology in 1924 and at the time of his death in October 1950 was considered the foremost criminologist of the century. [Source: Encyclopedia of Juvenile Justice; Sutherland, Edwin H.]

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