Institutions, Anomie, and Violent Crime: Clarifying and Elaborating Institutional-Anomie Theory
A limited but accumulating body of research and theoretical commentary offers support for core claims of the “institutional-anomie theory” of crime (IAT) and points to areas needing further development. In this paper, which focuses on violent crime, we clarify the concept of social institutions, ela...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Bielefeld
2008-11-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Conflict and Violence |
| Online Access: | https://www.ijcv.org/index.php/ijcv/article/view/2763 |