TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2002//
TI  - Anomie, Social Change and Crime. A Theoretical Examination of Institutional-Anomie Theory
JO  - British journal of criminology
A1  - Bernburg, Jon Gunnar
SP  - 729
EP  - 742
VL  - 42
IS  - 4
N2  - The last decade has seen a revived interest in using anomie theory in crime and deviance research. The present paper contributes to this development by offering an examination of a particular extension of anomie theory, namely, Messner and Rosenfeld's Institutional-Anomie theory. Explicating Institutional-Anomie theory relative to the sociologies of Durkheim, Merton and Polanyi, I find that this theory goes beyond Merton by using a strain of thought that is critical of liberal society. By bringing in the notion of the disembedded market economy, a central notion in the institutionalism of Polanyi and Durkheim, this theory links crime, anomie, and contemporary social change. I also discuss some of the limitations of linking crime with societal level processes in a Durkheimian rather than Mertonian manner.<p /> 
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SN  - 0007-0955
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjc/42.4.729
ID  - ref1
ER  -