Division of labor, anomie, and crime rates: a test of a Durkheimian model

Two models of a Durkheimian explanation of crime rates were subjected to empirical test. One is the static model which posits that in a more complex society the crime rate ought to be higher. This proposition is based on the assumption that in more complex or organic societies the probability of ano...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Willis, Cecil L.
Other Authors: Sociology
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/38725
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07082010-020313/