Otto Pollak

Otto Pollak was a professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. His most influential and controversial book was The Criminality of Women (1950), in which he argued that women committed as much crime as men but that their crimes were more easily hidden, and that the criminal justice system's assumptions about women led to lighter convictions and sentences than men received. His empirical work became a starting point for criminology's study of women, though it was later appropriated in political debates by antifeminist and masculist groups. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/