Theory and Evidence of Rising Crime in the Nineteenth Century

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ID5632015
AutoresLynn Mcdonald (0000-0002-1166-6022, autor correspondente)
Ano1982
Volume33
Fascículo3
Páginas404
Data de publicação1982-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoBritish Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0007-1315 • E-ISSN: 1468-4446
EditoraJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/589484
OpenAlexW2317169285
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências 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

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