Walter B. Miller
Walter Benson Miller (born February 7, 1920 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † March 28, 2004 in Cambridge, Massachusetts ) was an American ethnologist, sociologist and criminologist who became internationally known for his contribution to the criminological subculture theory.
Miller graduated from the University of Chicago with a master’s degree majoring in anthropology and graduated from Harvard University with a Ph.D. PhD. At the University of Chicago he devoted himself from 1948 to 1953 to ethnological research on the Fox Indians . Then he turned to urban sociology .
Since 1957 Miller researched juvenile delinquency on behalf of the US government and published various writings on the subject. His thesis, according to which youthful gang violence is the manifestation of an independent lower-class culture , belongs to the classic repertoire of criminal sociology .
Miller was known as a jazz trumpeter in the Boston area.
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- ↑ Walter B. Miller: The culture of the lower class as an emergence milieu for gang endelinquency , in: Fritz Sack / René König , Kriminalsoziologie , 3rd ed., 1979, pp. 339-359 (Original: Lower Class Culture as a Generating Milieu of Gang Delinquency , in: The Journal of Social Issues 24, 1958, pp. 5-19).
- ↑ As one of several competing explanatory models, cf. for example Tilmann Moser : Juvenile crime and social structure , Frankfurt am Main 1987, p. 35 ff. or Siegfried Lamnek : Theories of deviating behavior , 7th edition, Munich 2001, p. 168 ff.
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| SURNAME | Miller, Walter B. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Miller, Walter Benson (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American ethnologist, sociologist, and criminologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 7, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 28, 2004 |
| Place of death | Cambridge, Massachusetts , United States |