Jock Young
Jock Young was a British sociologist and an influential criminologist.
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- Born in
- Midlothian
- Educated at
- London School of Economics and Political Science
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Trending topics shown first"The drug user evokes an immediate gut reaction, while most criminals are immediately understandable in both motives and life style. For the criminal is merely cheating at the rules of a game which the…"
"Moral indignation, … the intervention into the affairs of others because we think them wicked, must necessarily be replaced by humanitarianism, which, using the language of therapy and healing, interv…"
"Jock Young Keith Hayward and Roger Matthews offer their personal tribute"
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1942
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Birth2013
Died
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