Emile Durkheim — "There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality is not foun…"

There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality is not found under different forms. No people exists whose morality is not daily infringed upon. We must therefore call crime necessary and declare that it cannot be non-existent, that the fundamental conditions of social organization, as they are understood, logically imply it.
Emile Durkheim — Emile Durkheim Modern · Sociology founder

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Arguing for the normalcy and even functional aspects of crime in society. This can be disturbing to those who view crime as purely pathological.

Date: 1895

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