Steven Messner

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Steven F. Messner (* 1951 ) is an American sociologist and criminologist . He teaches as a professor at the University of Albany and is on the academic advisory board of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence at Bielefeld University. Steven F. Messner is also co-editor of the International Journal of Conflict and Violence. In 2011 he was President of the American Criminological Association .

Life

Messner studied at Columbia University until his BA exam in 1973 , received an MA degree from Princeton University in 1976 and was awarded a Ph.D. in 1978. PhD. After teaching positions as a research assistant at Columbia University, the University of Albany and one semester as a visiting professor at the Chinese Nankai University , he first became an adjunct professor and in 1993 a full professor of sociology at the University of Albany.

Messner's research focuses on the further development of anomie theory and international violence research. Together with Wilhelm Heitmeyer , Douglas Massey , James Sidanius and Michel Wieviorka , he publishes the International Journal of Conflict and Violence .

Institutional Anomie Theory

Together with Richard Rosenfeld , Messner 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 (selection)

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Editorial team of the International Journal of Conflict and Violence
  2. ↑ 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 Messner, Steven
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Messner, Steven F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sociologist and criminologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1951