# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gresham-sykes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:56:08.588Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gresham-sykes"
name: "Gresham Sykes"
slug: "gresham-sykes"
description: "Gresham M'Cready Sykes was an American sociologist and criminologist. He earned a Bachelor of Arts at Princeton University and a Ph.D. at Northwestern University. He taught at Princeton, Dartmouth, and Northwestern prior to becoming sociology professor at the University of Virginia. Sykes's study of New Jersey State Prison has been described as a pioneering look at the issues faced by guards, as well as the pains of imprisonment encountered by inmates. His most famous work is The Society of Captives, which is widely considered one of the first works in the genre of prison sociology. He coauthored Techniques of Neutralization: A Theory of Delinquency with David Matza, published in the American Sociological Review in December 1957."
tagline: "Sociologist and criminologist (1922-2010)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1922-05-26"
deathDate: "2010-10-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.19
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.740389333333335
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "غريشام سايكس"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham_Sykes"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump