ABSTRACT
This chapter details that between 1926 and 1929, while at the University of Minnesota, Edwin H. Sutherland worked hard to solidify his reputation as one of the country's leading criminologists. When Sutherland moved from the University of Illinois to the University of Minnesota in 1926, he joined a distinguished department of sociology. At Minnesota, beginning with "Capital Punishment" in Nelson's Encyclopedia in 1926 and continuing through "Edward Carey Hayes: 1868-1928" in the American Journal of Sociology in 1929, Sutherland wrote eleven articles. Most of the articles written by Sutherland while at Minnesota not only beat the drum for a scientific sociology but expanded on themes contained in his Criminology. At the same time Sutherland was solidifying his reputation as a criminologist, there were others in the field who were also trying to develop a sociological understanding of delinquency and crime. Most were associated with the University of Chicago; these people constituted an important reference group for Sutherland.
