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Article: Durkheim and criminology: reconstructing the legacy. (Emile Durkheim)
- Article from:
- Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology
- Article date:
- December 1, 2008
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The article offers an overview of Emile Durkheim's substantial and surprisingly diverse legacy for criminology. This is shown to run the gamut from positivism through to social constructivism. Further, it includes insights into deviance, social control and the law. Although broad in scope and often brilliant, his contribution is perhaps insufficiently acknowledged. Reasons for this oversight are given, as are some indications of future directions for Durkheimian criminology.
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Around 100 years ago Durkheim was at the height of his powers and prestige. His three major works of the 1890s, The Division of Labor in Society, The Rules of Sociological ...