Theory and Evidence of Rising Crime in the Nineteenth Century

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5632015
AutoresLynn Mcdonald (0000-0002-1166-6022, autor de correspondencia)
Año1982
Volumen33
Número3
Páginas404
Fecha de publicación1982-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaBritish Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0007-1315 • E-ISSN: 1468-4446
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/589484
OpenAlexW2317169285
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas2

The question as to whether crime rates are rising or falling has both important public policy implications, in the law and order debate, and academic, in tests of etiological theories. This paper contends that official crime rates were falling in the two major industrial countries of the nineteenth century, Britain and France. Yet the major sociologists, lawyers, judges and so forth continued to discuss 'rising crime', and to develop theories to explain why. The reasons for increases differed between schools (biological, psychological, mainstream sociological and Marxist). But as diverse, and eminent a lot of theorists as Durkheim, Ferri, Tarde, Engels and Bonger were united in insisting that crime was

Criminology · Economic geography · Economics · Neoclassical economics · Positive economics · Social science · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions