Criminology and the sociology of organizations: analogy, comparative social organization, and general theory

The sociology of organizations offers conceptual tools that can be used by criminologists. The logic of crossing intra-disciplinary boundaries to borrow conceptual tools rests in the analogical properties of structure and process across social settings that are fundamental aspects of all social orga...

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Main Author: Vaughan, Diane (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2002
In: Crime, law and social change
Year: 2002, Volume: 37, Issue: 2, Pages: 117-136
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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