Richard Rosenfeld

Richard Bruce Rosenfeld (* 1948 ) is an American sociologist and criminologist . In 2010 he was President of the American Criminological Association .

Life

Rosenfeld teaches as professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Missouri in St. Louis . He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Oregon in 1972 , a Ph.D. He received his doctorate from the sociological faculty there in 1984.

Rosenfeld's research interests lie in the social explanation of violent crime , crime statistics and crime policy .

Institutional Anomie Theory

Together with Steven Messner , Rosenfeld developed an institutional anomie theory , which emphasizes that the social goals have shifted massively towards the economic and the social means adapt to the monetary desires. The non-economic institutions (such as family, education, politics) are only inadequately able to curb the criminogenic cultural pressure phenomenon, namely the overvaluation of economic success. The resulting institutional imbalance is expressed in the fact that non-economic roles and functions are devalued, that adaptation to economic requirements is required far beyond the economic sphere and that economic standards also become standards of non-economic institutions. This undermines the institutional control of the members of society.

Fonts

With Steven Messner: Crime and the American Dream , 5th edition, Belmon: Wadsworth, 2013 (first edition 1994).
With Steven Messner: Crime and the Economy . London: Sage Publications, 2013.

Web links

Richard Rosenfeld at the University of Missouri in St. Louis

Individual evidence

↑ See Hans Joachim Schneider : Criminology for the 21st Century. Priorities and progress in international criminology. Overview and discussion , Münster, Hamburg, Berlin, London: Lit, 2001, p. 50 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Rosenfeld, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rosenfeld, Richard Bruce (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American sociologist and criminologist
DATE OF BIRTH	1948

[1] See Hans Joachim Schneider : Criminology for the 21st Century. Priorities and progress in international criminology. Overview and discussion , Münster, Hamburg, Berlin, London: Lit, 2001, p. 50 f.