Earl Richard Quinney And The Black Collar Crime - 782 Words

Reminiscent of the 1980s based considerations historically demonstrating criminological sophistication, Earl Richard Quinney is most noted for his look at crime among the wealthy or elite classes, most predominantly as white-collar crime. Quinney was born in small town rural Wisconsin in 1934 to first generation Irish immigrants. Quinney spent his youth completely in rural Wisconsin, graduating from Delevan High School. He life to this point, revolved around small farm-town living, where populist political culture dominated the landscape. During this time he developed significant skill as a writer for his high school newspaper, and this led him to later attend Carroll College, a small liberal arts institution in Waukesha, Wisconsin where he was elected as student body president (Mutchnick et al., 1990). Quinney aspired to join the Forest Service, as well as medicine, where he considered synthesizing biological science with sociology with a career in medical administration. Afte r a brief, unpleasurable, working stint upon graduation from Carroll College, Quinney attended graduate school at Northwestern University in Illinois where he wrote his master’s thesis on â€Å"Urbanization and the Scale of Society under the guidance of criminology scholars Kimball Young and William Byron. Not long after, Quinney went on to receive his post-graduate degree from his home state institution the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1962. The road to achieving his post-graduate degree