Social Institutions and Crime

Steven F. Messner; Richard Rosenfeld; Susanne Karstedt

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Social Institutions and Crime

Steven F. Messner, Richard Rosenfeld, Susanne Karstedt

University of Missouri-St. Louis

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Over the past several years, criminological theorists have shown renewed interest in the role of social institutions in the onset of crime. This development has been aptly labeled the “new institutionalism” by Susanne Karstedt in 2010 and has been manifested most prominently in recent studies on criminal punishment. Recognition of the central role of institutions in trying to understand the societal response to crime is not new or surprising, given that the criminal justice system is itself an institution (or an institutional subsystem). Social institutions influence how social life is regulated and facilitate the functioning of social systems. There are three interrelated dimensions of social institutions that are particularly relevant to the study of crime: institutional structure, institutional regulation or legitimacy, and institutional performance.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	The Oxford Handbook of Criminological Theory
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199747238.013.0021
State	Published - Nov 2012

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