Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
- Keyword
Articles 1 - 3 of 3
Full-Text Articles in Criminology
Crime As The Limit Of Culture, Sergio Tonkonoff
Crime As The Limit Of Culture, Sergio Tonkonoff
Sergio Tonkonoff
In this article culture is understood as the ensemble of systems of classification, assessment, and interaction that establishes a basic community of values in a given social field. We will argue that this is made possible through the institution of fundamental prohibitions understood as mythical points of closure that set the last frontiers of that community by designating what crime is. Exploring these theses, we will see that criminal transgression may be thought of as the actualization of a rigorous otherness. This otherness, however, is nothing but the culture itself in its extreme vectors, its contradictions, and residues. From there …
Gabriel Tarde: Crime As Social Excess, Sergio Tonkonoff
Gabriel Tarde: Crime As Social Excess, Sergio Tonkonoff
Sergio Tonkonoff
Gabriel Tarde, along with Durkheim and others, set the foundations for what is today a common-sense statement in social science: crime is a social phenomenon. However, the questions about what social is and what kind of social phenomenon crime is remain alive. Tarde’s writings have answers for both of these capital and interdependent problems and serve to renew our view of them. The aim of this article is to reconstruct Tarde’s definition of crime in terms of genus and specific difference, exploring his criminology as a case of his general sociology. This procedure shows that Tarde succeeded in creating a …
Durkheim And Foucault: The Social Functions Of Crime And Punishment., Sergio Tonkonoff
Durkheim And Foucault: The Social Functions Of Crime And Punishment., Sergio Tonkonoff
Sergio Tonkonoff
The aim of this article is to examine the positions of Durkheim and Foucault regarding crime. The author’s more general hypothesis is that both share the idea of a hidden functional nexus between criminal transgression, criminal punishment, and social order. Once established this agreement, he seeks to identify their main contrasts. Here, the hypothesis is that the two authors develop different modes of understanding the constitution and reproduction of a society, and, therefore, their interpretations of the history of punishment are different regarding both the importance and the role that they assign to the issue of crime in modern social …