Albert J. Reiss

Albert John Reiss Jr. was an American sociologist and criminologist who held the William Graham Sumner professorship at Yale University from 1970 until his retirement in 1993. He developed influential work in social control theory and conducted significant research on police violence, coining the term proactive while serving as a research director for President Lyndon B. Johnson Commission on Law Enforcement, where his findings showed that reactive police encounters carried greater risk of violence than proactive ones. Reiss became the only person to serve as president of both the American Society of Criminology, in 1984, and the International Society of Criminology, in 1990, and the American Sociological Association named an award after him in 1996. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/