Background and Early Education
Sutherland grew up and studied in Ottawa, Kansas and Grand Island, Nebraska. In 1904 he received s B.A. from Grand Island College, and after that, he taught Latin, Greek, history, and shorthand for two years at Sioux Falls College in South Dakota. In 1906 he left Sioux Falls to enter graduate school at the University of Chicago from which he received his doctorate. He changed his major from history to sociology. Much of his study was influenced by the Chicago school's approach to the study of crime, which emphasized social and physical environmental factors, rather than genetic or personal characteristics, as determinants of human behavior.
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