Thomas J. Scheff

Thomas J. Scheff was an American professor emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His fields of study were the emotional and relational world, mental illness, restorative justice and collective violence. He held a degree in physics from the University of Arizona and a doctorate in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, and taught at the University of Wisconsin before joining UC Santa Barbara in 1963. He died in 2025. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/