Jack Gibbs (sociologist)

Jack Porter Gibbs (1927 to 2020) was an American sociologist known for his work on social control theory and deterrence. He helped plan the founding of the Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin in the early 1960s, taught at Vanderbilt University and the University of Texas at Austin, and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in sociology in 1972. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/