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Robert Martinson was born on 19 May, 1927 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US, is an A freedom Riders. Discover Robert Martinson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 52 years old?
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Criminologist |
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52 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Taurus |
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19 May, 1927 |
| Birthday |
19 May |
| Birthplace |
Minneapolis, Minnesota, US |
| Date of death |
11 August, 1979 |
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Manhattan, New York City, US |
| Nationality |
United States
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Robert Martinson Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Robert Martinson's Wife?
His wife is Rita J. Carter (m. September 18, 1961)
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Rita J. Carter (m. September 18, 1961) |
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Robert Martinson Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Robert Martinson worth at the age of 52 years old? Robert Martinson’s income source is mostly from being a successful . He is from United States. We have estimated Robert Martinson's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Robert Magnus Martinson (May 19, 1927 – August 11, 1979) was an American sociologist, whose 1974 study "What Works?", concerning the shortcomings of existing prisoner rehabilitation programs, was highly influential, creating what became known as the "nothing works" doctrine.
His later studies were more optimistic, but less influential at the time.
He served as chairman of the Sociology Department at the City College of New York, and then founded the Center for Knowledge in Criminal Justice Planning.
Martinson was born on May 19, 1927, in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Magnus Constantine Martinson and Gwendolyn A. Gagnon.
It covered 231 earlier studies, dating from 1945 to 1967.
He received his degrees – BA (1949), MA (1953), PhD (1968) – from the University of California, Berkeley.
In 1959 he ran for mayor of Berkeley, California as the Socialist Party candidate.
Martinson was a participant in the 1961 Freedom Riders, spending over a month in two Mississippi jails, and wrote about his experience for The Nation.
He also wrote a longer academic study of the group dynamics within his cohort of imprisoned Freedom Riders.
His incarceration generated his interest in penology.
He married Rita J. Carter on September 18, 1961, in San Francisco, California.
Martinson's investigation with Douglas Lipton and Judith Wilks regarding the rehabilitation of inmates in prison had been commissioned in 1966 by the New York State Governor's Commission on Criminal Offenders.
Their first draft had been completed in 1970, but because the results were considered unsuitable, the report was initially suppressed.
It later became available after an unrelated court case.
Something of a public figure at the time, Martinson was interviewed by People magazine and on 60 Minutes (August 24, 1975), asserting that "nothing works" in prison rehabilitation.
His work was embraced by politicians, and inspired a wave of strong sentencing and cancellation of rehabilitation programs.
Academics, however, strongly criticized his studies, concluding mostly untrained practitioners in underfunded programs, and he later reversed his stance.
Martinson committed suicide on August 11, 1979, by leaping from his fifteenth floor Manhattan apartment.
