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Glueck, Eleanor Touroff (1898–1972), and Sheldon (1896–1980)
Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck are perhaps the most famous husband/wife research team in the field of criminology and delinquency. Sheldon Glueck immigrated to the United States from Poland as a child. He went on to earn an LL.B. and LL.M. from the National University Law School, and a master's and a Ph.D. in social ethics from Harvard. Eleanor Glueck earned a bachelor's degree in social work from the New York School of Social Work, and a master's and a Ph.D. in education from Harvard. The couples' widely divergent educational backgrounds combined to lay the foundation for the multidisciplinary research for which they would become famous.
Sheldon's brother, Bernard Glueck, a forensic psychiatrist at Sing Sing Prison, introduced the pair. They married in 1922, and from there ...
- Delinquency Theories and Theorists
- Albert Cohen
- Biological Theories
- Clifford Shaw
- Cycle of Violence
- Edwin Sutherland
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- Henry McKay
- James Short
- Joan McCord
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- Lloyd Ohlin
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- Psychological Theories
- Richard Cloward
- Ruth Shonle Cavan
- Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck
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- Solomon Kobrin
- Stanley G. Hall
- Thorsten Sellin
- Travis Hirschi
- Walter Miller
- Walter Reckless
- Historical References: People and Projects
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