Marvin Wolfgang

Marvin Eugene Wolfgang, who lived from 1924 to 1998, was an American sociologist and criminologist who spent most of his career as a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied under Thorsten Sellin. Described by the British Journal of Criminology as among the most influential criminologists in the English-speaking world, he reshaped the study of crime patterns and delinquency through landmark birth cohort studies that tracked large groups of individuals over time to measure how criminal offending develops and concentrates within a population.