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David Matza

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American sociologist best known for co-authoring, with Gresham Sykes, techniques of neutralization, and for the related theory of delinquency and drift explaining how offenders rationalize deviance without fully rejecting conventional morality.

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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account
1930 1
Death YearSourced to the subject's own account
2018 1
NationalitySourced to the subject's own account
American 1
Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own account
Co-developed techniques of neutralization theory with Gresham Sykes (1957) and the theory of delinquency and drift. 1
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He is best known for coauthoring, with Gresham Sykes, techniques of neutralization.
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