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is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.

is after a thousand years, slowly morphed into a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

is almost always due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

is, along with any vice, in it essence, an attempt to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.

It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.

is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell. Arthur Conan Doyle

is most harmful to a community because of the danger of the young being trained to crime.

The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime. W. E. B. Du Bois

is both inevitable and necessary, a social fact necessitated by the utter impossibility of total agreement regarding norms and values among all members of a society.

Durkheim is also associated with the argument that crime is both inevitable and necessary. For him crime is a social fact, just as a stable suicide rate is a social fact. If such things are found in an 'average' society, then they are normal... hence crime is normal. In order for no crime to exist there would, from Durkheim's perspective, have to be total agreement regarding norms and values among all members of society, but for him 'a uniformity so universal and absolute is utterly impossible' (Durkheim, 1982: 100)

is necessary and is logically implied by the fundamental conditions of social organization insofar as no people exist whose morality is not daily infringed upon.

There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality is not found under different forms. No people exist whose morality is not daily infringed upon. We must therefore call crime necessary and declare that it cannot be non-existent, that the fundamental conditions of social organization, as they are understood, logically imply it.Emile Durkheim

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