sociology of crime and deviance (original) (raw)
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Deviance is a behaviour that violates the standards of a conduct or expectations of a group of people or society, according to Wickman (1991), cited in Schaefer (2010). Crime and deviance in the views of Becker (1996) is a product of labelling. The scholar notes that crime and deviance is not a quality of what people do, but a quality of how people react to what is done. In this light it is worth noting that factors, variables such as time and place, gender,