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CRIME AND DEVIANCE
Social Control and Responses to Variant Behaviour
by Phil Bartle, PhD
Introduction to the Module (Hub)
Documents Included in this Deviance Module
- Criminal Sentence Purposes
- Deviance
- Female Genital Mutilation
- Good Guys versus Bad Guys
- Law as a Tool of Oppression
- Restorative Justice
- So What About Corporations?
- Corruption and the Multiplier Effect
- Techniques of Neutralization
- African and European Law in Ghana, paper for the University of Victoria Law Society
- Discussion, Crime and Deviance
- Discussion, Female Genital Mutilation
- Discussion, Law
- See also: Computer Crime
It is less about how you define deviants as about who has the power to make the definitions
While the newspaper editorial writers wonder why people commit crimes, sociologists wonder that people conform as much as they do.
The main difference between crime and deviance other than crime lies in the social response to the acts in question.
Where rules against some behaviour is codified in our formal legal system, they are called criminal, while the vast majority of acts outside the prescribed limits stimulate responses that are informal and not codified.
The difference appears to lie in our distinction between gemeinschaft and gesellschaft using the terminology of Tönnies.
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