At the time this collection was presented to the State Historical Society of Wisconsin in 1962, Marshall B. Clinard was a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin, specializing in urban sociology, criminology, and the study of deviate behavior.
Professor Clinard was born at Boston, Massachusetts, November 11, 1911. A graduate of Leland Stanford, Clinard also received his M.A. from that school in 1934 and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1941. His records show membership in a number of national and international organizations related to his field of study.
Before coming to Wisconsin as associate professor in 1946, he was a research assistant at the National Resources Committee, 1935-1937. From 1937 to 1941 he was an instructor at the University of Iowa, and in 1941 and 1942 he was chief of criminal statistics of the United States Bureau of the Census. During World War II he served as principal statistician and Chief of the Analysis and Reports section of the Office of Price Administration, 1943-1945. During the years 1945 and 1946 he was associate professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University.
In the summers of 1950 and 1951 he lectured at the Yale School for Alcohol Studies and went to Sweden as a Fulbright research professor in 1954 and 1955. In August of 1955 he was a delegate to the United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders at Geneva, Switzerland.
While on leave of absence in 1958-1960, Clinard served as consultant in India to a pioneering community development project supported by the Ford Foundation. He represented the American Sociological Association at the fourth International Congress of Criminology at The Hague in September of 1960. In December of 1961 Clinard again traveled to India to spend a month as advisor to a program in urban community development, which was the first program of its kind, in India, to aid the city dweller. He is the author of two books, The Black Market, a study of white collar crime, and Sociology of Deviant Behavior, as well as numerous articles and papers.
