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    This document discusses the relationship between deviance and crime. It defines deviance as a violation of social norms, whether informal cultural norms or formal laws. Crime is defined as a behavior that violates the law and is punishable. Crimes are classified as either violent crimes involving force or threat of force, or nonviolent property crimes involving theft or destruction of property. The document also discusses different types of deviant behaviors on a spectrum from consensus crimes like murder to minor social diversions.

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    This document discusses the relationship between deviance and crime. It defines deviance as a violation of social norms, whether informal cultural norms or formal laws. Crime is defined as a behavior that violates the law and is punishable. Crimes are classified as either violent crimes involving force or threat of force, or nonviolent property crimes involving theft or destruction of property. The document also discusses different types of deviant behaviors on a spectrum from consensus crimes like murder to minor social diversions.

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    This document discusses the relationship between deviance and crime. It defines deviance as a violation of social norms, whether informal cultural norms or formal laws. Crime is defined as a behavior that violates the law and is punishable. Crimes are classified as either violent crimes involving force or threat of force, or nonviolent property crimes involving theft or destruction of property. The document also discusses different types of deviant behaviors on a spectrum from consensus crimes like murder to minor social diversions.

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    This document discusses the relationship between deviance and crime. It defines deviance as a violation of social norms, whether informal cultural norms or formal laws. Crime is defined as a behavior that violates the law and is punishable. Crimes are classified as either violent crimes involving force or threat of force, or nonviolent property crimes involving theft or destruction of property. The document also discusses different types of deviant behaviors on a spectrum from consensus crimes like murder to minor social diversions.

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    CRIME

    Emina Husović
    The relationship between deviance
    and crime
     According to sociologist William Graham Sumner, deviance is a
    violation of established contextual, cultural, or social norms, whether
    folkways, mores, or codified law.
     Folkways are norms based on everyday cultural customs concerning
    practical matters like how to hold a fork, what type of clothes are
    appropriate for different situations, or how to greet someone politely.
     Mores are more serious moral injunctions or taboos like incest taboo.
     Codified laws are norms that are specified in explicit codes and
    enforced by government bodies. A crime is therefore an act of
    deviance that breaks not only a norm, but a law.
    The law
     Although deviance is a violation of social norms, it is not always
    punishable, and it is not necessarily bad. Crime, on the other hand, is
    a behaviour that violates official law and is punishable through formal
    sanctions. Walking to class backwards is a deviant behaviour. Driving
    with a blood alcohol percentage over the province’s limit is a crime.
     Societies have legal codes that maintain formal social control
    through laws, which are rules adopted and enforced by a political
    authority. Those who violate these rules incur negative formal
    sanctions. Normally, punishments are relative to the degree of the
    crime and the importance to society of the value underlying the law.
     The most serious acts of deviance are consensus crimes about
    which there is near-unanimous public agreement. Acts like murder
    and sexual assault are generally regarded as morally intolerable,
    injurious, and subject to harsh penalties.
     Conflict crimes are acts like prostitution or smoking marijuana,
    which may be illegal but about which there is considerable public
    disagreement concerning their seriousness.
     Social deviations are acts like abusing serving staff or
    behaviours arising from mental illness and addiction, which are not
    illegal in themselves but are widely regarded as serious or
    harmful. People agree that they call for institutional intervention.
     Finally there are social diversions like riding skateboards on
    sidewalks, overly tight leggings, or facial piercings that violate
    norms in a provocative way but are generally regarded as
    distasteful but harmless, or for some, cool.
    Types of crime
     In modern North American society, crimes are classified as one of
    two types based on their severity. Violent crimes (also known as
    “crimes against a person”) are based on the use of force or the
    threat of force. Rape, murder, and armed robbery fall under this
    category.
     Nonviolent crimes involve the destruction or theft of property, but
    do not use force or the threat of force. Because of this, they are
    also sometimes called “property crimes.”
     An often-debated third type of crime is victimless crime. These
    are called victimless because the perpetrator is not explicitly
    harming another person. As opposed to battery or theft, which
    clearly has a victim, a crime like drinking a beer at age 17 or selling
    a sexual act do not result in injury to anyone other than the
    individual who engages in them, although they are illegal.

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