ABSTRACT
The sociology of crime 1 has as its main object the relationships between society and its individual or corporate members as far as these relationships may have some bearing on crime. Moreover, as mentioned in our methodological chapters, the criminological significance of certain social institutions, of certain areas, and of the age and sex factors are also within the scope of the sociological approach to crime, although age and sex have important biological and psychological implications and areas have important physical aspects, too. Before going into the details of all these problems certain preliminary observations are, however, not out of place. The sociological interpretation of crime is, perhaps even more than its biological and psychological counterparts, affected by the subjective value judgments of the individual observer.
