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Culture's Impact on Crime Analysis

This document discusses the relationship between culture and crime. It summarizes the influence of culture on determining what behaviors are considered criminal and how societies react to crime. It also discusses how certain cultural factors can influence the development of criminal behavior. The author analyzes contributions from European social thought in the late 19th/early 20th century through the Chicago School and British cultural criminology. The applicability of these criminological perspectives to Serbia is discussed, noting societal changes over the past century that could influence crime but have not been fully examined. New opportunities for such analysis are presented by refugee populations in Serbia from conflicts in the Near and Middle East.

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Culture's Impact on Crime Analysis

This document discusses the relationship between culture and crime. It summarizes the influence of culture on determining what behaviors are considered criminal and how societies react to crime. It also discusses how certain cultural factors can influence the development of criminal behavior. The author analyzes contributions from European social thought in the late 19th/early 20th century through the Chicago School and British cultural criminology. The applicability of these criminological perspectives to Serbia is discussed, noting societal changes over the past century that could influence crime but have not been fully examined. New opportunities for such analysis are presented by refugee populations in Serbia from conflicts in the Near and Middle East.

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Culture and crime

Article in Kultura · January 2018


DOI: 10.5937/kultura1757085I

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CULTURE AND CRIME

The relationship between culture and crime is illustrated through the processing of two topics: the first
is the influence of culture on determining the circle of incriminated behaviors as well as the way in
which society reacts to crime; the second problem relates to the effect of certain cultural factors on the
genesis of criminal behavior. In this paper, the author analyzes the most important contributions of
European social thought from the end of the XIX and early XX centuries, to the Chicago School and
its followers and, finally, to British cultural criminology.

When it comes to the applicability of the above-mentioned criminological directions to the experience
of Serbia, it is a real detriment to the tectonic changes that have taken place over the past 100 years
(two unsuccessful attempts to create a multinational and multireligous society; both in the Second
World War and in the civil war in which Yugoslavia disappeared, intensive industrialization and
urbanization that in the middle of the 20th century led to mass migration from the village to the city,
the departure of workers into developed countries and their problems of adapting to a different
culture; the collapse of the socialist model and the transformation into capitalism through "robbery
privatization" which leads to the fearful stratification of society ...) almost did not encourage scientists
to examine what kind of reflects the related changes in the sphere of culture had to the state of crime.
The latest wave of refugees from the Near and Middle East who went through the territory of the
Republic of Serbia (and one of them has remained permanently here) opens new opportunities for
such studies; the same holds true for the cultural adaptation of tens of thousands of refugees from the
territory of the former Yugoslavia and internally displaced persons from the Kosovo and Metohija;
here we need to mention the subculture of young people, football hooligans, cultural patterns of the
so-called ’turbo folk’ and other youth subcultures. Criminologists in Serbia have, therefore, a
multitude of possible subjects of research and they should use them.

Key words: culture, crime, criminality, cultural trasmission, subculture, youth, migrations

Publ. in KULTURA 157/2017 (ISSN 0023-5164)


pp. 85-111 DOI 10.5937/kultura1757085I

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