1939 - Crime

Crime

Al Capone gains release from Alcatraz, his mind destroyed by syphilis (see 1931). The gangster retires to his estate at Miami Beach and will vegetate there until his death in 1947.

The American Sociological Association hears a speech December 27 from criminologist Edwin H. Sutherland on the subject of "white-collar crime" (see 1924). Now 56 and a member of the University of Indiana faculty since 1935, Sutherland has studied adverse legal decisions against 70 leading U.S. corporations since their founding and discovered that not one had an unblemished record (see 1949).