SOCI 2520 Chapter 1: Deviant Behavior & Social Control
16 Sep 2016
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Crime is not only observed in most societies of a particular species, but in all societies of all types. There is not one in which criminality does not exist, although it changes in form and the actions which are termed criminal are not everywhere the same. From the beginning of the century, criminality has increased everywhere, and in france the increase is of the order of 300 percent. What is normal is simply that criminality exists, provided that for each social type it does not reach or go beyond a certain level which it is perhaps not impossible to fix in conformity with the previous rules. Crime consists of an action which offends certain collective feelings which are especially strong and clear-cut. For murderers to disappear, the horror of bloodshed must increase in the strata of society from which murderers are recruited; but for this to happen the abhorrence must increase throughout society.
