Franklin Frazier's Criminological Theorist

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Franklin Frazier was another criminologist that I found interesting. He studied in sociology and was deemed uncommon in his era for an African American. He was born in 1894 in Baltimore, Maryland. He studied at Howard University and social work in New York. He was able to obtain bachelor’s degree in 1916 which is encouraging because in those times there were so many obstacles that had to be dealt with in those times. He began teaching at the Morehouse College. His contributions toward criminological thought were his controversial interests in the effects of racial tensions.
Frazier taught as a teacher for several years on various subjects including math. He decided to continue his education and to Clark University, he earned a scholarship

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