Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I The Concept of the Collective Consciousness of Society
- Part II The Form of the Collective Consciousness
- Part III Durkheim on Crime and Punishment
- Part IV Social Fact or Social Phenomenon? Durkheim's Concept of the Collective Consciousness as a ‘Social Fact’
- Part V Some Problems with Durkheim's Concept of the Common and Collective Consciousness
- Conclusion
- Appendix: On Paying a Debt to Society
- Notes
- References
- Index
Part III - Durkheim on Crime and Punishment
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2014
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I The Concept of the Collective Consciousness of Society
- Part II The Form of the Collective Consciousness
- Part III Durkheim on Crime and Punishment
- Part IV Social Fact or Social Phenomenon? Durkheim's Concept of the Collective Consciousness as a ‘Social Fact’
- Part V Some Problems with Durkheim's Concept of the Common and Collective Consciousness
- Conclusion
- Appendix: On Paying a Debt to Society
- Notes
- References
- Index
Summary
We note the existence of certain acts, all presenting the external characteristic that they evoke from society, the particular reaction called punishment. We constitute them as a separate group, to which we give a common label; we call every punished act a crime, and crime thus defined becomes the object of a special science, criminology.
(Durkheim 1964, 35-6; emphasis added)- Type
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- Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2014