Crime reveals society’s wider social and political tensions

Evidence

But we were convinced, not only that crime and deviance were fully social phenomena, but that they represented a challenge to society’s normative assumptions and the maintenance of social order, and could therefore be read as symptomatic of wider social and political factors. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1041

Categorization

• DEFINE: Frames the claim that crime/deviance should be read symptomatically, not as isolated acts.
• XREF: connects to: Aggregate sentencing patterns reveal societal judgments about crimes. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2820; Organized crime emerges where distrust coexists with feasible social mobility — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2152; Focusing on unique perpetrators obscures the social forces that define them — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 959 (+6 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Aggregate sentencing patterns reveal societal judgments about crimes. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2820; Organized crime emerges where distrust coexists with feasible social mobility — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2152; Focusing on unique perpetrators obscures the social forces that define them — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 959 (+6 more)