CRIME AND SOCIAL REACTION: OBSTACLES TO FORMING A GENERAL THEORY OF CRIME
CRIME AND SOCIAL REACTION: OBSTACLES TO FORMING A GENERAL THEORY OF CRIME

Summary/Abstract: This paper focus on the most important discussions presented today concerning the construction of the research object in sociology of crime, which puts it in the duality of dimension and generates a double interpretation of the concept of crime and social reaction. At the stage of building the object within the institutional space which imposes restrictions on produce knowledge, interpretation oscillates between process and structural approaches, which are reflected at the cognitive level between two competing interpretive action/reaction paradigms. The attempts to synthesize them are one of the significant problems that affect the possibility of forming a general theory of crime. A new current known as “Zemiology”, trying to link the relationship between crime and social harm, and is the only current that can collect the disparity of this field of knowledge and overcome the problem of the general theory of crime, by reviewing the concept that is the object of science itself, bypassing the duality of action and construction.

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