See also Emile Durkheim, and the “suitable level of crime.” That is, as behavior gets better, standards increase, so there is always the same amount of “crime” happening; “moral panics” often occurred when the crime rate was unusually low (by previous standards), and so society could now pay attention to a new class of infractions (that previously had merely been annoyances).
See also Emile Durkheim, and the “suitable level of crime.” That is, as behavior gets better, standards increase, so there is always the same amount of “crime” happening; “moral panics” often occurred when the crime rate was unusually low (by previous standards), and so society could now pay attention to a new class of infractions (that previously had merely been annoyances).