David Matza

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David Matza (born May 1, 1930 in New York - † March 14, 2018 ) was an American sociologist and criminologist .

Matza studied at the City of New York College until his BA degree in 1953 , followed by an MA and Ph.D. at Princeton University . Matza was a retired professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley .

Together with Gresham M. Sykes , Matza presented the criminological neutralization theory . In addition, he is considered to be one of the early representatives of critical criminology . He is counted among the Fifty Key Thinkers in Criminology .

Fonts

  • Techniques of neutralization: a theory of delinquency (with Gresham M. Sykes), in: American Sociological Review, Volume 22, No. 6, 1957, pp. 664-670.
    • Techniques of neutralization. A theory of delinquency . In: Criminal Sociology . F. Sack and R. König. Frankfurt am Main, Academic Publishing Company, 1968.
  • Delinquency And Drift , 2nd Edition, New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1990, ISBN 0887388043 (first edition 1964).
  • Becoming Deviant , 2nd edition, New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2010, ISBN 9781412814461 (first edition 1969).
    • Deviant behavior. Studies on the genesis of deviant identity , Heidelberg: Quelle & Meyer, 1973, ISBN 3-494-00779-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Isabella Sabri: 'Pillar in the field of sociology': UC Berkeley professor emeritus David Matza dies at 87. In: The Daily Californian. April 11, 2018, accessed April 13, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Bernd Dollinger , Matza, David (1972): Deviant behavior. Investigations into the genesis of deviant identities. Heidelberg: Quelle & Mayer . In: Christina Schlepper / Jan Wehrheim (eds.), Key Works in Critical Criminology , Weinheim: Beltz Juventa, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7799-3484-4 . Pp. 96-105. here p. 96.
personal data
SURNAME Matza, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sociologist and criminologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 2018