Much of the first section of this book is a rebuttal to the claim that analyzing law codes is a poor practice for sociologists, and divides laws into repressive and restitutory types, with the ratio of the two being the key to understanding the effects of the title phenomenon.
One part of this book claims that it is impossible to give a non- tautological definition of what a "crime" is, admitting that this book's definition of crime as "an offense to the collective conscience" is not very useful. Much of the first section of this book is a rebuttal to the claim that analyzing law codes is a poor practice for sociologists, and divides laws into repressive and restitutory types, with the ratio of the two being the key to understanding the effects of the title phenomenon. After identifying three "abnormal" types, it claims that the title phenomenon will "ruin" science, and that class conflict originates when it is mandated from above, changing the type of "solidarity" felt in the culture from "organic" to "mechanical." For 10 points, name this work of Emile Durkheim about a phenomenon that Adam Smith claimed was the source of the wealth of nations.
One part of this book claims that it is impossible to give a non- tautological definition of what a "crime" is, admitting that this book's definition of crime as "an offense to the collective conscience" is not very useful.
The {Division of Labor in Society} or De la {division du travail social}