Otto Pollak
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
This article needs additional citations for verification. (July 2007) |
Otto Pollak (30 April 1908 – 18 April 1998) was a writer and a professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.
His most controversial and famous book was The Criminality of Women (1950), in which he suggested that women commit just as much crime as men, but that their crime is more easily hidden. Pollak further argued that the criminal justice system was biased by preconceptions about women and did not convict or sentence women as harshly as men. His empirical work has provided a starting point for criminology on women. His work has also been used in political debates, as some antifeminist or masculist groups have appropriated his work.[citation needed]
References
Categories:
- Articles with short description
- Short description matches Wikidata
- Articles needing additional references from July 2007
- All articles needing additional references
- All articles with unsourced statements
- Articles with unsourced statements from July 2008
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with J9U identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with NTA identifiers
- Articles with DTBIO identifiers
- Articles with SNAC-ID identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- University of Pennsylvania faculty
- American criminologists
- American sociologists
- 1908 births
- 1998 deaths
- All stub articles
- Criminologist stubs