Durkheim is an important figure in Sociology and while his major work was completed at the beginning of the 20th century, many of his key ideas have, as this podcast demonstrates, contemporary relevance to an understanding of crime, deviance and social control.

Key concepts covered in this podcast:

• Social Integration

• Anomie

• Social Regulation

• Deregulation

• Moral power

• Anti-social behaviour

• Ecological approaches

• Control theory

• Strain theory