...Thomas E. Dearden; Maria Scaptura Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine whether victims of financial crimes are also affected by anomie. Fraud from supposed financial advisors leaves many victims feeling uncertain of their financial future and betrayed by people they trusted...

... be explained in terms of the theory of anomie. Anomie is a certain condition characterized by the absence of social norms capable of regulating interpersonal relations between people in a particular society that makes institutional control impossible. This phenomenon usually arises as a result of industrial...

... many other countries, by a chronic state of anomie determined by industrialisation and globalisation (Durkheim, 1897 ; Passas, 2000) and manifested in the inequality that affects the British society (McCann, 2016), which was one of the major reasons behind the Leave vote (Dorling, 2016 ; Goodwin...