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...McCord himself grew up on a ranch outside Tucson, Arizona, where his main activity was bronco-busting. "We made most of our money from chickens and turkeys, however," McCord added...
...could well examine your own motivations for taking a course in Criminology," Dr. William McCord tells the one hundred and fifty students at the beginning of the course more commonly called "Cops and Robbers." When asked what is responsible for his own interest in the criminal mind, he replies with refreshingly characteristic frankness: "I suppose my primary interest in crime is the sublimation of aggression; to vicariously participate in violence without feeling guilt. Also, of course, the outlaw has as much attractiveness to me as to the rest of American culture." He adds with his engaging smile, "I liked aggressive...
...addition to athletics, editing the college literary magazine, and being class president, McCord also developed his interest in criminality while at Stanford. "I took a job at San Quentin as a psychologist for sex offenders. Nobody else wanted to handle them so there were no qualifications. In fact this was not even my major in college; I majored in history and humanities." While working at San Quentin he counseled a man who had written the TV and radio show Dragnet until he was arrested for forging a $50,000 check...
Upon graduation from Stanford in 1952, McCord came to Harvard to work with Professors Sheldon Glueck and Gordon Allport. Shortly after his arrival he became a section man in Social Sciences 6, later directed a section Social Sciences 112--Human Relations. He received his Ph. D. in 1955, and since then has been teaching courses in Criminology, in Modern Social Thought, and seminars on group conflict and theories of conscience. In addition to his teaching, he has handled extensive administrative jobs, at present being Assistant Secretary of General Education and Head of the Board of Tutors in Social Relations...
During his stay at Harvard, McCord has found time to work at the Norfolk Prison, at the Wiltwick School for delinquents, and in the Cambridge-Somerville Project. From the latter experience, he published papers on alcoholism and Negro intelligence and is presently preparing a book based on the Project. He and his wife, Joan McCord expanded and revised his Ph. D. thesis which was published in 1956 as "Psychopathy and Delinquency...