Strained Dreams: Cybercrime and Institutional Anomie

About Our Guest:

https://liberalarts.vt.edu/departments-and-schools/department-of-sociology/faculty/thomas-dearden.html

 

Articles Mentioned in this Episode:

Dearden, T. E., Parti, K., & Hawdon, J. (2021). Institutional Anomie Theory and Cybercrime—Cybercrime and the American Dream, Now Available Online. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 10439862211001590.

Muftic, L. (2006). Advancing institutional anomie theory: A microlevel examination connecting culture, institutions, and deviance. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 50(6), 630–653.

 

Other

You should check out this book if these ideas were interesting:

Messner, S. F., & Rosenfeld, R. (1994). Crime and the American Dream 

There are many new editions printed.  

Learn more about Skin Cancer here:

https://www.cancer.gov/types/skin

Seriously,  if you have spent anytime outside, make sure you are aware of skin cancer. Some forms of it might be rare, but it is anything but,  I know many many people both younger and older than me who have had them cut out. 

The audio at the start of this episode was from a prelinger archive public domainfilm called "The Relaxed Wife", https://archive.org/details/RelaxedW1957.  

Pfizer started importing Atarax or Hydroxine into the US in the late 50s and promoted it with these kinds of films advocating that people just relax and stop worrying about things so much.