00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000002867 10824/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10823/MKRI-P/XI-2008 20221111020933 10823/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10824/MKRI-P/XI-2008 0010-0520002867 221111################|##########|#eng## 0534619584 eng 364.973 364.973 MES c Messner, Steven F. Richard Rosenfeld Crime and the American Dream / Steven F. Messner and Richard Rosenfeld 4th ed. Belmont : Routledge, 2007 xv, 150p. : : illus. ; 24 cm. Indeks : p.144-150 p.127-143 This 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. Crime - United States Social problems 10823/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10824/MKRI-P/XI-2008