The Professional Thief by a Professional Thief

by Edwin H. Sutherland

Summary

This classic text of criminology, written in 1937 by Edwin H. Sutherland, a professor at Indiana University, takes us on a journey into the hidden world of the professional thief.

In our own era of great criminality, this book provides an important flashback and is a valid investigation of the criminal mentality. The evidence here suggests a criminal society exists, further, that it resists all attempts at assimilation.