01665     2200325   4500001002100000005001500021035002000036008004100056020001500097041000800112082001200120084001800132100002300150700002200173245007600195250001200271260003200283300003600315500002300351504001400374520075500388650002601143650002001169990002501189990002501214990002501239990002501264990002501289990002501314INLIS00000000000286720221111020933  a0010-0520002867221111                |          | eng    a0534619584  aeng  a364.973  a364.973 MES c0 aMessner, Steven F.0 aRichard Rosenfeld1 aCrime and the American Dream /cSteven F. Messner and Richard Rosenfeld  a4th ed.  aBelmont :bRoutledge,c2007  axv, 150p. :b: illus. ;c24 cm.  aIndeks : p.144-150  ap.127-143  aThis book has been written with two purposes in mind: first, to present a plausible explanation of the exceptionally high levels of serious crime in the United States; second, to formulate this explanation using the basic ideas, insights, and conceptual tools of sociology. Each of these purposes rests on an underlying premise, one empirical, and the other epistemological. The empirical premise views crime rates as in fact exceptionally high in United States. Some level of criminal activity may be a normal feature of all societies, as Emile Durkheim proposed almost a century ago, both the level of and the preoccupation with serious crime in America are striking, especially when comparing the United States with other highly developed nations. 4aCrime - United States 4aSocial problems  a10823/MKRI-P/XI-2008  a10824/MKRI-P/XI-2008  a10824/MKRI-P/XI-2008  a10823/MKRI-P/XI-2008  a10823/MKRI-P/XI-2008  a10824/MKRI-P/XI-2008