The making of criminology revisited: An oral history of Merton's anomie paradigm

Theoretical Criminology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 5-37

  Cullen, Francis T ^a   Messner, Steven F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

anomie theory; growth of knowledge; Merton's sociology; oral history

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846276934     PISSN: 13624806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362480607072733     Document Type: Article

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