David Downes is a British sociologist and criminologist and is currently Professor Emeritus of Social Administration at the London School of Economics.
Downes was one of the founder members of the National Deviancy Conference.
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“Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)