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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 …
The Dark Glory Of Criminals: Notes On The Iconic Imagination Of The Multitudes, Sergio Tonkonoff
The Dark Glory Of Criminals: Notes On The Iconic Imagination Of The Multitudes, Sergio Tonkonoff
Sergio Tonkonoff
This article explores the relationships between crime, collective responses to it, and the social production of so-called great criminals. It argues that crime, especially sexual and violent crime, produces significant imbalances in individuals habitually subject to instrumental actions, identitarian thinking and positive law. These imbalances are emotional as well as cognitive and, under certain conditions of communication, can generate states of multitude, that is, collective states linked to an intense affectivity and to the prevalence of mythic or symbolic thinking. These states reach their limits and become condensed in the mytho-historical figure of the great criminal. In this sense, great …
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 …