Crime as social excess: Reconstructing Gabriel Tarde’s criminal sociology

Gabriel Tarde, along with Durkheim and others, set the foundations for what is today a common-sense statement in social science: crime is a social phenomenon. However, the questions about what social is and what kind of social phenomenon crime is remain alive. Tarde’s writings have answers for both...

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Author: Tonkonoff, Sergio Esteban
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Publication Date:2014
Country:Argentina
Institution:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
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Keyword:Gabriel Tarde
Crime
Criminal Sociology
Imitation
Invention
Opposition
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spelling Crime as social excess: Reconstructing Gabriel Tarde’s criminal sociologyTonkonoff, Sergio EstebanGabriel TardeCrimeCriminal SociologyImitationInventionOppositionhttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.4https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5Gabriel Tarde, along with Durkheim and others, set the foundations for what is today a common-sense statement in social science: crime is a social phenomenon. However, the questions about what social is and what kind of social phenomenon crime is remain alive. Tarde’s writings have answers for both of these capital and interdependent problems and serve to renew our view of them. The aim of this article is to reconstruct Tarde’s definition of crime in terms of genus and specific difference, exploring his criminology as a case of his general sociology. This procedure shows that Tarde succeeded in creating a comprehensive theory of crime and criminals founded not only on his most well-known concept, imitation, but also on his equally important concepts of invention, opposition, social logic and social teleology. For Tarde, crime is a complex phenomenon related to criminal inventions, criminal propagations, the production of penal laws, the execution of controls and punishments, and the collective reactions to all these.Fil: Tonkonoff, Sergio Esteban. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaSage Publications2014-04info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/33746Tonkonoff, Sergio Esteban; Crime as social excess: Reconstructing Gabriel Tarde’s criminal sociology; Sage Publications; History Of The Human Sciences; 27; 2; 4-2014; 60-740952-6951CONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0952695114525167info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1177/0952695114525167info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2024-05-08T13:45:49Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/33746instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982024-05-08 13:45:49.868CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
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title Crime as social excess: Reconstructing Gabriel Tarde’s criminal sociology
spellingShingle Crime as social excess: Reconstructing Gabriel Tarde’s criminal sociology
Tonkonoff, Sergio Esteban
Gabriel Tarde
Crime
Criminal Sociology
Imitation
Invention
Opposition
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.4
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
title_short Crime as social excess: Reconstructing Gabriel Tarde’s criminal sociology
title_full Crime as social excess: Reconstructing Gabriel Tarde’s criminal sociology
title_fullStr Crime as social excess: Reconstructing Gabriel Tarde’s criminal sociology
title_full_unstemmed Crime as social excess: Reconstructing Gabriel Tarde’s criminal sociology
title_sort Crime as social excess: Reconstructing Gabriel Tarde’s criminal sociology
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Tonkonoff, Sergio Esteban
author Tonkonoff, Sergio Esteban
author_facet Tonkonoff, Sergio Esteban
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Gabriel Tarde
Crime
Criminal Sociology
Imitation
Invention
Opposition
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.4
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
topic Gabriel Tarde
Crime
Criminal Sociology
Imitation
Invention
Opposition
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.4
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
description Gabriel Tarde, along with Durkheim and others, set the foundations for what is today a common-sense statement in social science: crime is a social phenomenon. However, the questions about what social is and what kind of social phenomenon crime is remain alive. Tarde’s writings have answers for both of these capital and interdependent problems and serve to renew our view of them. The aim of this article is to reconstruct Tarde’s definition of crime in terms of genus and specific difference, exploring his criminology as a case of his general sociology. This procedure shows that Tarde succeeded in creating a comprehensive theory of crime and criminals founded not only on his most well-known concept, imitation, but also on his equally important concepts of invention, opposition, social logic and social teleology. For Tarde, crime is a complex phenomenon related to criminal inventions, criminal propagations, the production of penal laws, the execution of controls and punishments, and the collective reactions to all these.
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