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Modernization and Crime

Definitions: Complex Phenomena, The Long-term European View, Rapid Modernization In The Twentieth Century



Common beliefs often associate crime with features of modern society such as big cities, mass society, liberal democracy, capitalism, and modern mass media. In reality, the relationship between modernization and crime is highly complex. Modernization may be accompanied by declining, stable, or rapidly increasing crime rates, depending on the place, particular conditions, and time frame under consideration. A look at basic definitions provides a first understanding of the complexity of the relationship between modernization and crime.



JOACHIM J. SAVELSBERG

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