Crime Is Necessary: Durkheim’s Theory of Crime

Crime cannot be removed completely from society because it will always be the necessary unacceptable norm that can be located in all forms of societies around the world. Crime is regarded, by many people such as politicians and other people of everyday society, as horrid and unnecessary. Emile Durkheim believes that crime is normal, and it isn't possible for it to not exist.

 If crime is everywhere and in no area has crime ever been successfully eradicated, then we should assume it is there for a reason. According to many books written by Emile Durkheim, such as Suicide, and The Division of Labor, society plays a large role in our actions and Durkheim explains that reasons to which why crime is executable.

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