In a specialized, organic solidarity society, beliefs and sentiments are not shared. This has two consequences for the form of law. First, law needs to provide procedures for the reconciling of differences, and a framework in which people with different sentiments, engaged in different tasks, can do business together. Second, since sentiments are not shared, crimes cannot he said to be offending against the whole society, but are offences of one individual against another, and law needs to provide procedures for remedies and reparation rather than for expiation of wrongs against the collective conscience. Such procedures therefore take the form of modern civil law, more concerned with contractual relationships and with restitution than with repression.