Stanton Samenow

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Stanton E. Samenow (October 16, 1941 – May 8, 2023)^[1] was an American psychologist and writer. On his death in 2023, an obituary in the Washington Post noted that he "drew national attention by challenging prevailing views of criminal behavior, arguing that its causes lie not in environmental factors such as poverty but rather in an identifiable 'criminal personality'".^[2]