Anthony Platt

This article is about the sociologist and criminologist. For the record producer, see Tony Platt. For the rapper with the same birth name, see Unk.

Anthony Michael Platt (born 1942) is an English-born sociologist and criminologist. He is a Distinguished Affiliated Scholar at Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Law and Society. He is Professor Emeritus at Sacramento State School of Social Work. Platt is a notable scholar in the domains of child welfare and deviance.[1][2][3]

Early life and education

Platt was born in Manchester, England in 1942. He then attended the University of Oxford and acquired a degree in law and jurisprudence. He received his masters and PhD in criminology in 1965 and 1996 respectively from University of California, Berkeley.[4][5] Platt completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the University of Chicago. Then he returned to the University of California, Berkeley in 1968 as an Assistant Professor. He then became a part of the radical criminology movement in criminal justice studies.[3][6][7]

Selected books

  • Platt, Tony. The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at UC Berkeley. Heyday Books, 2023.[8][2][9][10][11]
  • Platt Tony. Grave Matters: The Controversy over Excavating California’s Buried Indigenous Past. Berkeley, California, Heyday, 2021.[12]
  • Platt, Tony. Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States. New York, St. Martin’s Press, 2019.[13][14][15][16]
  • Platt, Tony, and Cecilia Elizabeth O’Leary. Bloodlines: Recovering Hitler’s Nuremberg Laws, from Patton’s Trophy to Public Memorial. London, Routledge, 2016.
  • Platt, Tony. Grave Matters : Excavating California’s Buried Past. Heyday, 2011.
  • Platt, Anthony M. E. Franklin Frazier Reconsidered. Rutgers University Press, 1991.[17][18][19]
  • Platt, Anthony M. The Politics of Riot Commissions, 1917-1970. Collier Books, 1971.
  • Platt, Anthony M, and Miroslava Chavez-Garcia. The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press, 2009, originally published in 1969.[20][21][22][23]

References

  1. ^ "Meet Us | School of Social Work | Sacramento State". www.csus.edu. Retrieved 2025-07-26.
  2. ^ a b Dinkelspiel, Frances (2023-08-28). "'Scandal of Cal' author says university has failed to reckon with history of grave-robbing, colonialism and atomic warfare". Berkeleyside. Retrieved 2025-07-26.
  3. ^ a b Tony Platt Papers, University of Michigan Library (Special Collections Research Center).
  4. ^ "Tony Platt | OLLI @Berkeley". olli.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2025-07-26.
  5. ^ "Tony Platt". Heyday. Retrieved 2025-07-26.
  6. ^ "Tony Platt". Bay Area Book Festival. Retrieved 2025-07-26.
  7. ^ "Town Hall: Addressing Berkeley's History | OLLI @Berkeley". olli.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2025-07-26.
  8. ^ The Scandal of Cal. ISBN 978-1-59714-621-0.
  9. ^ Anbert, Lærke Cecilie (2024-10-30). "'The Scandal of Cal' by Tony Platt". History of Anthropology Review. Retrieved 2025-07-26.
  10. ^ Lovely, Kendall (2023-11-01). "Review: The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at UC Berkeley, by Tony Platt". California History. 100 (4): 126–129. doi:10.1525/ch.2023.100.4.126. ISSN 0162-2897.
  11. ^ Vognar, Chris. "Review: 'The Scandal of Cal' holds university accountable for its historical misdeeds". Datebook. Retrieved 2025-07-26.
  12. ^ Platt, Tony (2021). Grave Matters: The Controversy over Excavating California's Buried Indigenous Past by Tony Platt. Heyday. ISBN 978-1-59714-559-6.
  13. ^ Weigh Weiss, Valeria (May 2019). "Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States". Delito y Sociedad. 28 (47): 168–171. doi:10.14409/dys.v1i47.8468. ISSN 2468-9963.
  14. ^ Edgar, David (2019-10-01). "Review: Beyond these Walls: rethinking crime and punishment in the United States by Tony Platt". Race & Class. 61 (2): 118–121. doi:10.1177/0306396819875043. ISSN 0306-3968.
  15. ^ "Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime And Punishment In The United States". Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Reviews. 2020-04-20. Retrieved 2025-07-26.
  16. ^ "A New Kind of Bondage". Los Angeles Review of Books. 2019-12-13. Retrieved 2025-07-26.
  17. ^ Platt, Tony (1989). "E. Franklin Frazier Reconsidered". Social Justice. 16 (4 (38)): 186–195. ISSN 1043-1578. JSTOR 29766509.
  18. ^ Robinson, Dean E. (March 1993). "E. Franklin Frazier Reconsidered. Anthony M. Platt". American Journal of Sociology. 98 (5): 1171–1172. doi:10.1086/230144. ISSN 0002-9602.
  19. ^ Davidson, Abraham A. (1992-06-01). "Keith L. Bryant, Jr. William Merritt Chase: A Genteel Bohemian. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 1991. Pp. xiv, 325. $35.00". The American Historical Review. 97 (3): 950–951. doi:10.1086/ahr/97.3.950-a. ISSN 0002-8762.
  20. ^ Chavez-Garcia, Miroslava (2007). "In Retrospect: Anthony M. Platt's The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency". Reviews in American History. 35 (3): 464–481. doi:10.1353/rah.2007.0051. ISSN 1080-6628.
  21. ^ Schultz, J. Lawrence (1973). "Review of The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency". The Yale Law Journal. 82 (3): 629–638. doi:10.2307/795314. ISSN 0044-0094. JSTOR 795314.
  22. ^ Rock, P. E. (1970). "Review of The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency". The British Journal of Criminology. 10 (2): 192–194. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a046243. ISSN 0007-0955. JSTOR 23636069.
  23. ^ Teitelbaum, Lee. E. (1970). "Review of The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency". Family Law Quarterly. 4 (4): 444–450. ISSN 0014-729X. JSTOR 25738966.
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