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I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.

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Gary Becker
Age: 83 †
Born: 1930
Born: December 2
Died: 2014
Died: May 3
Blogger
Criminologist
Economist
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Sociologist
University Teacher
Pottsville
Pennsylvania
Gary Stanley Becker
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