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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“We could not help contrasting the equanimity of Nature with the bustle and impatience of man. His words and actions presume always a crisis near at hand, but she is forever silent and unpretending.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)