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. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account Death YearSourced to the subject's own account Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own accountCo-developed techniques of neutralization theory with Gresham Sykes (1957) and the theory of delinquency and drift. 1 David Matza
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He is best known for coauthoring, with Gresham Sykes, techniques of neutralization.
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