After his teaching stint he enrolled in the University of Chicago where he received his doctorate in sociology (Williams and Mcshane, 2004). Sutherland originally came to the University of Chicago as a history major, but soon changed his major to sociology due to the University of Chicago's influence on social environment's factors on a person's behavior (Williams and Mcshane, 2004). He took a liking to the perspective that an individual's social structure can determine the way he or she behaved because at the time most sociologist/criminologist believed that a person'...

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The "Broken Window Theory" created a perspective which was to look at the overall environment in a residential area; fixing petty crimes would help lower misconduct. ... The Get tough on crime perspective the mayor introduced was a more aggressive way to deter quality of life crimes. ...

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To look back at the last century we can see an explosion in books on true crime and a growth in the fields of psychology, sociology, and criminology. ... "From this perspective law, law enforcement agencies, and government itself are instruments of the ruling class to maintain advantageous positions in society and to control those who pose a threat to that position." ...

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