Had much to say concerning crime

A learned man, Emile Durkheim

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Became a book, and so today | The thoughts he had in 1910 | Are read by other learned men | Who then proceed to write a lot | Of books on Durkheim’s life and thought | And I am sure that someday you | Will write a book or maybe two | Destined to be widely read | On what they say that Durkheim said. | Albert K. Cohen (1993). "The Social Functions of Crime," at asc41.com. First part of poem presented in his Sutherland Address at the 1993 ASC meetings in Phoenix.

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