ABSTRACT
The probability that law will be obeyed seems to be so high that the question naturally arises, how it is possible that in certain cases law may remain ineffective. In other words, how it is possible that legal equilibrium would be disturbed. Crime as a regularly repeated anomaly is provided for in the legal structure. When accumulated, cases of "legal disequilibrium" may be interpreted as a partial disintegration of culture, with law as one of the disintegrated elements. Law is a social force which acts on the behavior of individuals. The correlation between legal and extralegal uniformities may be that of the identity of trends: the imposition of legal patterns of behavior acts on the behavior of men in the same direction as the imposition of other patterns, or as the tendency of imitation, or as the resultant of the forces contained in "similar conditions."
