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Clifford Shaw  

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  • an American criminologist who, with Henry D. McKay, developed the ecological school of criminology. Shaw received graduate training at the University of Chicago, where he was exposed to the work of Ernest Burgess and Robert Park. [Source: The Concise Dictionary of Crime and Justice; Shaw, Clifford]

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