Frank Tannenbaum

Frank Tannenbaum (* 1893 in Austria, † 1969 in New York City ) was an American sociologist, historian, and criminologist.

Life

Frank Tannenbaum in 1905 emigrated to the United States. He met Emma Goldman, and became militant union activist at the ( Industrial Workers of the World). 1914 arrested after riots, he had for a year in jail. He then went to Columbia University. He earned his bachelor 's degree there in 1921 and later received his doctorate ( Ph.D.) with a thesis on land reform in Mexico in Economics at the Brookings Institution. He then moved to Mexico and became active as a consultant of Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas del Río. In 1932 he returned to the U.S. to initially teach criminology at Cornell University. In 1935, he moved to a professor of Latin American history at Columbia University. A significant dortiger students fir tree was the historian and political scientist Robert J. Alexander.

Work

Tannenbaum's conception of the " dramatization of evil" led to the further development of symbolic interactionism. His main work criminological Crime and the community is considered the first formulation of a theoretical approach to labeling. Among other things, it contains the related succinct formulation "The criminal Becomes bad Because He is defined as bad ." However, the later representatives of labeling approaches ( Edwin M. Lemert, Howard S. Becker) primarily attacked directly on fir tree versions back, but justified their approach independently. The tree is therefore mainly classified more as a precursor because as the real representatives of the criminal sociological labeling perspective.

Writings

• The Mexican agrarian revolution. New York 1930.
• Crime and the community. London 1938.
• Slave and citizen. New York 1947.
• Mexico, the Struggle for Peace and Bread. New York 1951 ( German 1967).
• A philosophy of work. Nuremberg, 1954 ( first English 1951).
• Ten Keys to Latin America. New York 1963.