Willem Bonger
Willem Adriaan Bonger | |
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| Born | September 6, 1876 Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Died | May 15, 1940 (aged 63) Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Cause of death | Suicide |
| Known for | Early Marxist criminology; analysis of economic factors on crime; opposition to Nazism and fascism |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Amsterdam |
| Thesis | Criminalité et conditions économiques (1905) |
| Doctoral advisor | G.A. van Hamel |
| Influences | Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Karl Kautsky, S. R. Steinmetz |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Criminology, Sociology |
| Institutions | University of Amsterdam |
| Notable works | Criminalité et conditions économiques (1905), Geloof en misdaad (1913), Problems of Democracy. A sociological and psychological study (1934), Ras en misdaad (1939) |
Willem Adriaan Bonger (September 6, 1876 – May 15, 1940) was a Dutch criminologist and sociologist. He is considered an early Marxist criminologist which through his work, criminology stood out as an autonomous science, making its interrelationship with sociology more evident according to a scientific approach.