Saskia Andresen 
Kai Erikson’s View of Crime in Society [PDF ebook] 
A Functionalist Perspective in ‘Wayward Puritans’ (1966)

Scientific Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Sociology — Law and Delinquency, grade: 2.1 (British scale), The University of York, course: Sociology with Criminology, language: English, abstract: This paper will attempt to evaluate Kai Erikson’s functionalist criminological perspective in his work ‘Wayward Puritans’, and will determine to what extent deviance in society is an important condition in preserving the stability of social life.