Specialist on crime became victim of a big one

Professor's adviser spent lavishly in scam

(STEVE MILLER FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE)

By Jonathan Saltzman

Globe Staff / January 26, 2008

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Albert K. Cohen knew plenty about crime. A Harvard-educated sociologist, he taught a course on deviant behavior for about 25 years, mostly at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. The retired professor had also worked with troubled boys before World War II at an Indiana school for juvenile delinquents. (Full article: 731 words)